Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Microsoft has been tracking the shift to remote work through their Worklab research division. But unlike other companies and pundits with various agenda, it has been doing something approaching unbiased research and legitimate analysis. Microsoft is doing a great public service in pursuing these studies. As we’ve pointed
Only one major city ranks higher than Seattle for remote work
An empty office floor in the Olympic Tower in downtown Seattle, September of 2020. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times) by Gene Balk Seattle Times columnist Driving is no longer the dominant way Seattle residents get to work — and all it took was a pandemic. Census data released Thursday shows from 2019-2021, the number of Seattle
Microsoft Says ‘Productivity Paranoia’ Can Hurt Hybrid Workplaces
Employees think they’re being just as productive as ever. Bosses aren’t buying it. New data from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which surveyed 20,000 employees across 11 countries, finds that despite early signs of a productivity boom during the pandemic—when many workers traded commuting time for more hours of working from home—there’s a steep divide between how
Apple employees push back on latest return-to-office plan
Apple delayed full implementation of a return-to-office plan in the spring because of another Covid-19 surge. The company’s office in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is pictured here. ANTHONY BOLANTE | PSBJ By J. Jennings Moss – Editor-in-Chief and General Manager, Silicon Valley Business Journal Aug 22, 2022 The news last week that Apple Inc. would, once again, fully
Viewpoint: Why many return-to-office plans are facing resistance
By Ty West – Editor-in-Chief, The Playbook, Jun 20, 2022 For many companies, the long-awaited return to the office isn’t going quite as expected. Employers are facing pushback from workers. Covid-19 cases have been on an upswing, which is contributing to the resistance. Employees still have unprecedented leverage. That’s not stopping prominent CEOs like Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk from making bold declarations calling
Elon Musk orders employees back to the office
Elon Musk email on remote work policy
Don’t turn back the clock on work-from-home flexibility
By Gleb Tsipursky Special to The Times A recent survey of more than 10,000 global knowledge workers and their leaders shows the current concern of executives is over hybrid and remote work schedules, and something called “proximity bias,” a fear that those who choose to return to offices will get ahead, while those who stay
The Check Box
Introduction One small silver-lining from the pandemic is the broad realization that a great deal of work can now be done as well or even better via Remote Work and Remote Attendance. It saves time and money and improves productivity. It provides increased accessibility for those who find air travel challenging or who simply prefer
Just Five Percent
As we previously wrote, the single biggest thing we as airport community activists could do to reduce the noise and pollution would be to encourage Remote Work. We at SeatacNoise.Info have been puzzled for a while now why this hasn’t been a part of the discussion in either airport communities or climate change activists. We