Survey: Nearly Half of Business Owners Say Remote Work Is Hurting Productivity

With staff working remotely, enterprise homeowners say productiveness is taking a success.

In a survey of greater than 1,000 U.S. enterprise homeowners launched final week by Digital.com, a Seattle-based assessment website targeted on small companies, 45 p.c reported that their firms don’t get as a lot achieved whereas their staff are working from house.

The survey additional suggests employers disagree with analysis that finds persons are equally or extra productive whereas working from house: 39 p.c of respondents stated they might fireplace staff who refused to return to the workplace. Amongst firms that reported their staff had been utterly office-based earlier than the pandemic, that determine rose to 44 p.c.

“Corporations that concentrate on bodily location and hours labored will probably be behind the curve,” Dennis Consorte, Digital.com’s small enterprise knowledgeable, stated within the survey outcomes. “In any other case, their most valued staff might hunt down distant alternatives elsewhere.”

One in 5 employers reported their staff will probably be allowed to decide on whether or not to work within the workplace, at house, or a mix after the pandemic, and 10 p.c reported that staff will probably be required to proceed to work remotely. Security was a big concern among the many group-42 p.c of employers stated they need all of their staff to obtain vaccines.