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☆ A Gen X dad supercommutes from Texas to Arizona every week. He explains why it's worth it for his career — despite the extra costs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Then 2022 rolled around, and Dabney was offered a promotion within his company to be a program director — in Phoenix. Dabney was excited about the opportunity, and he viewed it as the perfect chance to advance his career and boost his income. And that has been crucial to decisions that I've made over the years about where to go and where to work," Dabney told Business Insider. While he said his company helped him with relocating costs, he estimated the supercommute costs him around an extra $20,000 each year. Advertisement"It was a nonstarter ripping my kids out of high school to go to Louisiana and then eventually Phoenix," Dabney said.

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☆ 'Win-win-win': Three-day hybrid work week is a success, largest study to date published in Nature says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Kaya Ginsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The three-day in-office hybrid work schedule is a "win-win-win," according to a study published in the prestigious science journal Nature. Non-manager attrition for hybrid employees had a 2.4% rate, a one-third reduction from the control group of 7.2%. When managers measured employees in nine categories of performance, execution and results, hybrid employees succeeded at the same rate. By the end of the experiment, managers positively viewed hybrid work as a potential asset to the company rather than a detriment to productivity. From an economic policymaking standpoint, hybrid work is one of the few instances where there aren't major trade-offs with clear winners and clear losers.

Persons: Nick Bloom, Bloom, Ruobing Han, James Liang, Trip.com, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Stanford's Institute for Economic, Boeing, UPS, Nike, JPMorgan, University of Pittsburgh Locations: Shanghai, U.S

☆ Gen Xers and boomers are giving up on hybrid work: They're either all in or out on the office
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Related VideoStill, those 50-64 were most likely to work fully remotely, while those 20-29 were least likely. That means they can afford to be fully remote and might feel really comfortable doing things on their own," Barrero said. So that muscle memory might push them to come in more often than younger workers who embrace hybrid." Indeed, many older workers BI has spoken to are divided on whether they want to be in-office or at home — but they're willing to leave roles that don't cater to their preferences. Do you strongly prefer in-office or remote work?

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☆ Why a five-day return to office is unlikely, Stanford economist says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The five-day, in-office workweek is antiquated for a large share of workers, a relic of the pre-pandemic job market. "Remote work is not going away," said Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University who studies workplace management practices. Remote work is not going away. Nick Bloom economics professor at Stanford UniversityHis research suggests workers value hybrid work about the same as an 8% raise. 'Firms care about profits, not productivity'In addition, hybrid work doesn't appear to have any negative impact on workers' productivity, Bloom said.

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Read previewAmericans are on their way to work — and they probably still have a long way to go. New research first reported by The Wall Street Journal shows that more workers are supercommuting, meaning they're traveling more than 75 miles each way for work. Some trips, they found, are as long as five hours each way, with some starting their commutes at 3 a.m. New York City experienced an 89% surge in supercommuting, from 1.9% to 3.6% of all trips. Phoenix, Arizona — a city that's seen a surge of new residents in recent years and, as a result, soaring housing costs — has also seen supercommuting increase by 57%.

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☆ Half of Americans would take a pay cut to work remotely — and many are willing to give up vacation days, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Many workers are willing to take pay cuts, increase working hours, or give up benefits for remote work. AdvertisementIt turns out that remote work is still valuable — at least for prospective employees. And they're willing to pay for that ability: Half of workers surveyed said they would take a pay cut for the policy. AdvertisementA majority of workers also reported being willing to move elsewhere for work if given the chance to work remotely. AdvertisementJay, an elder millennial, previously told Business Insider that he took a $35,000 pay cut so he wouldn't have to live near his office.

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☆ Remote Employees Are More Likely to Get Laid Off; WFH Is Risky
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Executives at the online furniture retailer Wayfair told its staff in January that remote workers were likelier to be hit in its latest round of job cuts. Add in long-term trends, like the decline in loyalty between employers and employees , and it's no wonder remote workers feel anxious about cuts. “It’s not too surprising,” Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School who has never been a big fan of remote work, said. “That is something remote workers should be thinking about as they’re engaging with supervisors,” she said. Remote workers aren’t doomed to the unemployment line, but they may want to try a little extra to get noticed.

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☆ Return-to-office mandates aren't making companies more valuable and productive, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's according to a new paper that looks at how RTO mandates impact productivity and performance. If RTO mandates are hard to enforce, they probably don't make sense for that workplace. RTO mandates were more common for firms with "male and powerful CEOs." The authors found no significant impact of RTO mandates on stock returns or firm profitability. RTO mandates have divided many offices nationwide, including at leading tech and financial companies.

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☆ Bank of America sends letters threatening 'disciplinary action' to employees who aren't coming into the office
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bank of America is issuing warning letters to workers who aren't coming into the office. The bank has been sending letters to correct workplace attendance since late 2023. In its latest effort to herd its employees back to the office, Bank of America has been sending out warning letters it's calling "letters of education" to those who haven't been turning for work. AdvertisementSince October 2022, Bank of America has been requiring the majority of its employees to come into the office at least three days a week. In April of last year, JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon mandated the firm's top executives to come into the office five days a week.

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☆ The end of workplace loyalty
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Do that, and you generate the kind of trust and loyalty that leads to high productivity and low turnover. A world in which the psychological contract is profoundly broken. In the three decades following World War II, as Rick Wartzman documents in his book " The End of Loyalty ," a booming economy made American companies rich. Today, disillusioned workers might assume that the norm of workplace loyalty was nothing but a capitalistic ruse, a way for companies to exploit their employees. But the new loyalty would recognize that employees have to uphold their end of the bargain.

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☆ What to expect at work in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Another recent survey by consulting firm Mercer found that employers expect to promote just under 10% of their employees this year. Expect, too, to see a wider variety of employers offer more financial wellness benefits in 2024. “After three years of turmoil it finally looks like [work from home] has stabilized and 2024 will look a lot like 2023. Employees who can work a hybrid schedule are generally working from home roughly 30% of the week (or about 1.5 days), Bloom noted. For example, someone with a busy work schedule may opt to take them via text or chat on their phone on a Sunday morning, he said.

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☆ I'm a Gen Zer who found my 9-to-5 soul crushing until work-from-home changed my life
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I'm a Gen Zer who worked at my 9-to-5 before the pandemic, and found the schedule soul-crushing. The shift to remote work suddenly meant I had time to cook, exercise, and socialize. AdvertisementThere's been a whole lot of buzz recently about Gen Zers discovering the bleak realities of a 9-to-5 schedule. I graduated college in 2019, and went almost immediately into a 9-to-5 schedule. Like other Gen Zers, I enjoy getting face time with my coworkers, and, honestly, the free food.

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☆ Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"Return to the office is dead," Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University and expert on the work-from-home revolution, wrote this week. The share of paid work-from-home days has been "totally flat" this year, hovering around 28%, said Bloom in an interview with CNBC. "We are three and a half years in, and we're totally stuck," Bloom said of remote work. Why remote work has had staying powerThe initial surge of remote work was spurred by Covid-19 lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. While remote work is the labor market's new normal, there's significant variety from company to company, Pollak said.

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☆ Millennials are the reason you can still work remotely
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Millennials are powering the continued remote work boom, and are more likely to be remote. While Gen Zers and boomers want to go in, millennials are opting to work from home. Going into the office is a desire that cuts across generational lines, unifying groups that aren't often in alignment: Gen Zers, Gen Xers, and boomers. That data paints a clearer picture of how remote work has created new segments of workers. Of course, remote work has been life-changing for some .

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☆ 3 unique ways employees and companies are making 4-day workweeks happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The four-day workweek is picking up steam as test pilots report promising results. It's led some entrepreneurs and businesses to give the four-day week a chance. Some people are using remote work as a different way to reduce their weekly hours. By November, she and her three remote employees had transitioned to a "quasi- four-day workweek ," she said. More companies may give the four-day week a chance as pilot programs across the globe report promising results and the competition to attract talent persists.

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☆ The boss is back in charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

After a brief transition of power to workers, it feels like bosses are back in charge. Between the rise of AI, return-to-office mandates, and layoffs — employee anxiety is high. Between the rise of job-threatening AI, strict return-to-office mandates, and sweeping layoffs, it feels like bosses are clawing back what little remains of employees' power . The economic trend began in early 2021 in the wake of the pandemic and saw millions of workers quit their jobs . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe charge is largely being led by Big Tech and banks, with varying degrees of severity and pushback.

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☆ Michael Bloomberg implies remote employees are playing golf instead of working: 'It is funny, but it's tragic'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Michael Bloomberg is an outspoken critic of remote work. He thinks employees are slacking off and hitting the golf course during the workday, he told CBS. A March study by Stanford University researchers found that remote work "powered a huge boom in golfing," with visits to golf courses surging on weekdays and mid-afternoons compared to pre-pandemic times. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn August, he wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post, arguing that remote work for federal employees had "gone on too long." Just days after Bloomberg's article was published, Biden reportedly ramped up efforts to get federal employees back to the office.

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☆ Businesses are pressuring Target to force its employees to return to the office — and it's more evidence that companies can't win in the remote work wars
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Target is sticking to a flexible hybrid work schedule for employees at its Minneapolis headquarters. Corporate employees at Target aren't subject to a company-wide return to office mandate, the Minneapolis/St. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut many businesses in Minneapolis, Target's hometown, aren't thrilled by the policy, the Journal reported. Target has taken a much more relaxed stance toward bringing employees back to the office than other major companies. That approach to work likely contrasts with most of their employees, who have families and lives outside of their jobs.

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☆ Return-to-office orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bosses who allowed fully remote work during the pandemic want workers back in the office, pronto. Experts say RTO orders come from elite, often male CEOs who prioritize work over work-life balance. AdvertisementAdvertisement"For most employees, life is partly work, but partly things outside work," Stanford economist Nick Bloom said. "These elite CEOs probably work 100-plus hours a week and they're much more work-focused." The mandates symbolize the sharp disconnect right now between the way CEOs and employees think about work.

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☆ People would rather work anywhere but the office — including their gyms
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It shows how remote workers, or hybrid workers, crave a third space that isn't work or home. As the Wall Street Journal reports, gyms are the latest venture to break into offering coworking space. Its website touts that the gym's members lounge "offers communal work tables and social lounge spaces available from open until close for all club members," where members can "catch up on some work" or "just relax after your workout." As research on remote workers' time use shows, more are using their breaks to work out or participate in other leisure activities. That could explain why a gym-based coworking space is so appealing: You get the ability to socialize, work out, and still get your work done.

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☆ The remote work revolution is crashing into a cold reality: Research is finding workers are less productive at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Recent research found that fully remote workers were less productive than office workers. A recent analysis of multiple studies by the Stanford economist Nick Bloom, a leading remote-work expert, found that fully remote workers were 10% to 20% less productive than their in-office counterparts. But the research has found, on average, those working in the office at least some of the time are more productive . Even Zoom, which is synonymous with remote work, recently called some employees back to the office for at least two days a week. Bloom recently estimated 60% of Americans worked fully in person, 30% worked in person between one and four days per week, and 10% worked fully remotely.

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☆ No one knows how much they should care about work right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

If you're not sure how much to care about work, or what it means to you, you're not alone. Work blurred into life, and life blurred into work, suddenly making my personal errands the same as work. In the wake of our existential reckoning with work, some office workers flipped the script, making life their full-time job and work a part-time pursuit. Lazy girl jobs and a window of opportunityRight now, we're in the "uncomfortable" middle of work, as Klotz calls it. The opportunity to job hop may be dwindling, but that doesn't mean work has to settle into 2019 norms.

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☆ Delta's CEO tells bosses who 'moan' to him about staff not coming into the office more: 'I know where they are – they're on my airplanes.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ed Bastian told Semafor that bosses complain to him about trying to get employees back in the office. The Delta CEO said remote and hybrid workers now spend more time traveling. But the CEO of Delta CEO says their workers aren't just sitting at home – they're taking trips. American employees are clinging to remote work despite senior management thinking it's time to draw a line. I don't need to be in an office to do my work," she previously told Insider.

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☆ The WFH-vs.-office war might be over and hybrid work is winning out, says the nation's top remote-work expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Researchers explain how both employees and companies can benefit from a hybrid work model. What's more, these data points have leveled off in the last few months, Bloom told Insider. Bloom's paper concluded that hybrid work had a "flat or even slightly positive" impact on productivity and improved employee recruitment and retention. Remote work could rise in the years ahead as technology improvesPer Bloom's most recent estimates, 60% of Americans work fully in-person, 30% work in-person between one and four days per week, and 10% work fully remotely. But Harvard's Choudhury said there's one reason a recession wouldn't crush the remote work movement.

Persons: Nick Bloom, Bloom, Choudhury, Harvard's Choudhury Organizations: Service, Stanford, Harvard Business School Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ 5 ways AI could change your job, including making it more interesting and helping to convince your boss to let your work from home
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider asked several experts in AI, economics, and remote work about the multitude of ways Americans' working lives could be impacted by AI moving forward. AI could eliminate some jobs and boost competition for those that remainGenerative AI technologies like ChatGPT will likely create some jobs and replace others. But for companies with leadership that has this concern, AI productivity gains could help them forget about some of their remote work "productivity paranoia" — a factor that in theory, could help remote work persist at some businesses. "So I think the biggest AI impact will be a ton of fully remote jobs like data-entry, payroll etc going to AI." Added Frey: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

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