by Christine Moukazis | Oct 12, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Remote Work
Newly installed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who replaced Jeff Bezos in July, made a potentially game-changing decision Monday. Jassy said in a companywide memo, white-collar professional office workers could work remotely, choose to work in an office setting or come...
by Christine Moukazis | Sep 13, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
A new study of remote workers conducted by Digital.com reveals the main reasons why people want to continue working from home. They run the gamut. Some seem obvious, while other rationales will surprise you. Pets About 75% of the respondents want to stay home because...
by Christine Moukazis | Sep 13, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
Microsoft conducted a substantial study of 61,100 employees. Analyzing “rich data on the emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and workweek hours,” the tech giant desired to determine the effects of remote work. The study was conducted in the early...
by Bhatt Unnati | Aug 26, 2021 | Latest News, Remote Work
Interest in working remotely has surged during the Covid-19 pandemic and is lingering even as the economy reopens, a new study suggests. The share of online job searches for remote positions jumped 460% in the two years between June 2019 and June 2021, according to...
by Christine Moukazis | Aug 20, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
You’d like to believe that companies have logical, rational reasons for their decisions. Management would want what is best for the business, right? Anyone who’s been in the workforce for more than five minutes knows that directives issued by managers are highly...
by Christine Moukazis | Aug 16, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
Are you curious about what other people have been doing while working from home during the pandemic? It’s always interesting to find out about how people really spent their time—and not what they tell their bosses, family and friends. At the early onset of the...
by Christine Moukazis | Aug 11, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Remote Work
It always felt like companies were acting as if they were doing their employees a favor by letting them work remotely. Despite the fact that major corporations, like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, did...
by Christine Moukazis | Jul 30, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
A new study shows that supervisors do not hold remote workers in high regard. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that supervisors are not happy with remote work. They reported “negative perceptions” of the work-from-home trend. Managers said they’d...
by Bhatt Unnati | Jul 20, 2021 | Career Advice, Remote Work
Like most people, I experienced 2020 as a year of constant change—in the way I worked, the way I communicated with loved ones, and even the way I shopped for groceries. So when my company’s CTO approached me about leading an entirely new department, I wasn’t sure I...
by Jack Kelly | Jul 20, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly, Latest News, Remote Work
There is a growing groundswell of doomsaying about the Delta variant. At this point in the pandemic, it’s hard to know what and who to believe. The headlines scream about the percentage of increases in cases, but not much is written concerning the actual number...