| Results from https://www.letsgoremote.ca INDIVIDUALS - An overwhelming 79.8% of the individuals enjoy WFH - Just under half of the individuals claim to have "expert" level of experience working from home, 84% of these individuals enjoy WFH, but you have to assume that there is some degree of self-selection going on here - Of the individuals who like WFH, 82% had a good "home office" setup - The largest problems tended to be: focusing, missing the office, and feeling isolated in that order - The largest problem that people wrote in was that there isn't a clear separation between work and home life and they are working more hours from home - For people who missed their office, the main reasons were: saying hi to coworkers (73%) and getting out of the home (70%). These were considerably higher than too many distractions at home (19%) and too much noise at home (5%) - If an individual complained about being bored, they are only 66% likely to enjoy WFH If an individual says they don't have a routine, they are only 58% likely to enjoy WFH - Pretty much the only subgroup of people who disliked WFH more than enjoyed it were people who complained about missing dressing up for the office - People expressed an interest in wanting to learn an additional language, code, personal finance and then cook in descending order. EMPLOYERS - The top problems for employers were 1) maintaining a sense of community: 57%, 2) maintaining employee morale: 50% and 3) keeping employees accountable: 43%. Problems with morale were amplified in "expert" remote companies - Chat was by the most common source of communication (75%) - Spanning multiple timezones made no significant impact on whether or not the company had problems with maintaining a community and/or employee morale - Just under half the companies typically communicate with whiteboards - The main employee count range tended to be from 10-80 - The most common project management style was a good ol' fashioned checklist. |