Who benefits most from remote working?

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The coronavirus pandemic allowed many people worldwide to work in new and radical ways. It brought some of the biggest changes for computer-based office workers, many finding themselves working from home for the first time. Research from McKinsey Global Institute, the international management consultancy firm, suggests remote work in some form, is likely to remain for this group of employees. We discuss what the continued shift towards remote work means for both businesses and employees around the world. We hear from Roseleen Kagiri, a remote worker in Nairobi, Kenya, and Hailey Walker who works from home in Chicago in the US. Matt Wilson, co-founder and co-chief executive of Omnipresent, a tech start-up, reveals why his business employs all of its workers remotely. Nick Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University in California tells us about studies he’s done on working from home and how remote work affects productivity, and Harriet Molyneaux, managing director at HSM Advisory, a global advisory group focussed on the future of work based in London, explains why employers are now looking more closely at remote hybrid work to attract and retain the best talent. Presenter/producer: Tara Holmes (Image: Woman sitting at desk with cup of coffee; Credit: Getty)

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd science.
0:02.5	We shoot a laser beam, Etis Etim.
0:05.2	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.4	Yep.
0:09.7	That's possibly the most disgusting thing I've heard this week.
0:13.6	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here I'm actually holding a donut.
0:18.4	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.3	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:23.2	Hello, I'm Tara Holmes.
0:25.6	Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC.
0:28.1	In this program, I'll be hearing from workers in three different parts of the world
0:32.2	who have decided their future is definitely not in the office.
0:36.5	If I were to look for another position, it would need
0:39.2	to be remote. And so there's just no way that a company would be able to entice me with an in-office
0:45.5	position at this point. I'll be digging into the reasons why some businesses have decided to go
0:50.5	fully remote since the coronavirus pandemic. And who benefits the most? Employers or workers?
0:57.0	I think it's definitely a win-win and I think if there is any positive thing to come out of what's been a
1:02.0	truly horrible pandemic, it's the surge in a remote work, people around the world, working fully
1:07.1	remotely for international companies. And we'll also be looking at what it all means for the future of work across the globe.
1:13.2	I personally believe that there is a role to the office.
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