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With management resistance overcome, working from home may be here to stay – The Conversation AU
We asked 1,400 managers to rate working from home. Some 8.4% said their teams were less productive, 57% said it was the same, and 34% said it was higher.
It has been almost 50 years ago since visionaries started predicting a digital revolution enabling many of us to work from home.
But that revolution has long been thwarted by resistance crucially from management concerned about productivity and performance.
It was the case in 1974, according to Jack Nilles, who led the first major study to evaluate the benefits of telecommuting (by a team from the University of Southern California). It was still the case in 2019, according to researchers from …
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