Work from home for an average of 52 days due to Corona… “There is no difference in productivity between work and home”

During the past year during the epidemic of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), office workers were found to have worked from home for an average of 52 days. In addition, more than half of companies answered that there is no difference in productivity when employees work from home or when they go to work.

According to Job Korea on the 25th, the period of telecommuting differed greatly by company size. Large corporations (61 days) and mid-sized companies (57 days) worked from home longer than the average, and small and medium-sized enterprises (48 days) and public corporations and public institutions (40 days) worked from home less than average. This is the result of a survey conducted by Job Korea, a job platform, for 839 employees who are working from home.

However, to the question whether the company actively recommended working from home according to the stage of distancing, 79% of employees of public corporations and public institutions answered yes. However, nearly half of SMEs (47%) were found to have no experience working from home. Ji-Sung Byun, the head of Job Korea, said, “95% of employees answered that telecommuting is necessary in the new year, and only 5% of the opinions that it was not necessary.” “It is a position to do.”

More than half (55%) of companies found that employees did not notice the difference in productivity when they worked from home or when they went to work. This is the result of a survey of human resources managers at companies (109 companies) that had been working from home last year by a recruitment and job search platform. According to people, the most frequent answer was’because working from home is efficient’ (47%, hereinafter, multiple responses) as a factor that does not differ in productivity. ‘Because the remote work system is well-equipped’ (38%),’employees work from home responsibly’ (35%) followed. They also cited’because they have enough know-how about working from home’ and’because the workforce was operated without idle personnel because of telecommuting’.

Companies responded that to increase productivity, they prepared new rules for working from home, equipped with a remote work collaboration system, and increased the autonomous work system for employees. Among the difficulties experienced by these efforts, many cited’difficulty in communication between employees’ (40%) and’work identification and planning’ (36%). The team leader, Lim Min-wook, said, “As it appears that they do not feel the difference in productivity, 30% of companies that do not work from home will also introduce telecommuting in the future.

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