Microsoft's research found thatemployees averaging the most weekly one-on-one time with theirmanagers experienced the smallest increase in working hours.(Credit: VDB Photos/Shutterstock.com)
Americans appear to have adapted to remote work exceptionallywell during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent national survey from Chubb found notonly that productivity was up among those working from home, butnearly three-quarters of workers say they want to continueworking remotely more frequently than they did before the shutdownsbegan.
These statistics don't mean there weren't speed bumps along theway, and study after study has looked at how to mitigateissues that have arisen as a result of the move to remote work. Onecompany—Microsoft—decided to take a deep dive into how itsemployees were handling the myriad of changes related to workingfrom home, the results of which they shared with the HarvardBusiness Review in its seven-part series, "The New Reality of WFH."
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Richard Binder
Richard Binder, based in New York, is part of the social media team at ALM. He is also a 2014 recipient of the ASPBE Award for Excellence in the Humorous/Fun Department.
