20 Facts About Remote work

Remote work, called work from home, work from anywhere, telework, remote job, mobile work, and distance work is an employment arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, warehouse, or retail store.

In 1995, the motto that "Remote work is something you do, not something you travel to" was coined.

Remote work can reduce costs for organizations, including the cost of office space and related expenses such as parking, computer equipment, furniture, office supplies, lighting and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

The autonomy of remote work allows for arrangement of work to reduce work-family conflict and conflicts with recreational activities.

Remote work improves efficiency by reducing travel time, and reduces commuting time and time stuck in traffic congestion, improving quality of life.

Remote work can reduce traffic congestion and air pollution, with fewer cars on the roads.

Increase in remote work had led to people moving out of cities and into larger homes which catered for home office space.

Remote work has long been promoted as a way to substantially increase employee productivity.

Since work hours are less regulated in remote work, employee effort and dedication are far more likely to be measured purely in terms of output or results.

Remote work improves efficiency by reducing or eliminating employees commute time, thus increasing their availability to work.

Remote work provides workers with the freedom and power to decide how and when to do their tasks and therefore can increase productivity.

Remote work allows employees and employers to be matched despite major location differences.

Remote work requires the use of various types of media to communicate, such as videotelephony, telephone, and email, which have drawbacks such as time lags, or ease of deciphering emotions and can reduce the speed and ease at which decisions are made.

Remote work provides a social structure that enables and constrains certain interactions.

From an anthropological perspective, remote work can interfere with the process of sensemaking, the forging of consensus or of a common worldview, which involves absorbing a wide range of signals.

Barriers to the continued growth of remote work include distrust from employers and personal disconnectedness for employees.

Task identity is the degree that the individual sees Remote work from beginning to end or completes an identifiable or whole piece of Remote work rather than only a small piece.

Task significance is the degree that the individual feels his or her Remote work has a substantial impact on the lives or Remote work of other people within the organization or outside the organization.

Remote work actually was found to positively affect employee-supervisor relations and the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intent was in part due to supervisor relationship quality.

Remote work poses cybersecurity risks and people should follow best practices that include using antivirus software, keeping family members away from work devices, covering their webcams, using a VPN, using a centralized storage solution, making sure passwords are strong and secure, and being wary of email scams and email security.