Quotes About Telecommuting

one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.

In thirty years' time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. —RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP

Many workplaces that never before offered telecommuting have had to do so in the face of the coronavirus. Once systems are established and practiced, both government and private employers will institute more telecommuting options.

FWAs boost productivity. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom found that employees who telecommute are 13.5 percent more productive than employees who go into the office.

FWAs increase retention/reduce turnover. The telecommuters in Bloom's study quit their jobs at about half the rate of their peers in the office.

Montana is perfect for telecommuting because of the quality of life, because our housing prices in most communities are below the national average.

People are realizing that telecommuting doesn't mean you have to be in New York City five days a week. It means that if you have to stay home for a period of time, having a nice little backyard is not a bad way to do it.

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

A January 2020 Gallup survey on remote work found that people working off-site 60–80 percent of the time were more likely than other workers to feel engaged, and to feel that someone was watching out for their development.

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

The headline in the Washington Post read, "You'll Never Have to Go to Work Again." The article described how innovations in IT make it possible to choose whatever location you want to do your work from. The year was 1969.