A little research: 1 in 3 people want to work from home
My spot at the kitchen table sometimes gets in my way, because I work and eat and have drinks there, but ninety-nine point nine percent of the time I’m doing fine. You could say that we are the lucky bastards, because it doesn’t really matter where we open our laptops. Although this is preferably at the editorial office, whether we are traveling or just hanging out together in a café.
On your wooden butt
Now that the whole of the Netherlands is no longer crammed in the train or lining up in traffic, it turns out that working from home actually works and we even work one to two hours more per day. Although a large part of the employees and employers were not so sure about this before the crisis. 60 (!) percent of companies were forced to move their desks home after the call from Rutte on March 12 and 92 percent of remote workers are satisfied. There are certainly complaints, leave that to us Dutch, but they are mainly practical in nature. People complain about a failing server to log in or about a wooden butt, because they are working from a hard kitchen chair. One small piece of advice: get a nice office chair, your butt will thank you.
Hear hear
What do we miss? Colleagues. Almost 60 percent of the people working at the kitchen table miss chatting for a bit, because it’s nice, all that Zooming, but nothing beats going over your weekend at the coffee machine. This average is actually higher in the Netherlands than in other countries, which just proves that we are really nice people or that we have really nice colleagues; it comes down to the same thing. By the way, a quarter is already looking forward to the Friday afternoon drinks. Hear hear, we understand that. I suspect that our entire team consists of that one quarter. I foresee a Friday afternoon drink that lasts until midnight with a generous amount of J.Lohr.
In the early or late hours
The advantages of working from home are of course also there. For instance, the absence of travel time is at the top, because there is more time left for home and hearth a.k.a. the family. The remote worker without children can concentrate better and suddenly starts exercising in quarantine. Unlike the remote workers with children, which sounds logical. The solution given for that is to deviate from the usual working hours, so that it can be made up in the early or late hours.
But whatever the future brings, half of the working people expect to get the opportunity to work more from home after the corona crisis. Full-time in the office seems like something from the BC era. Before corona.
Sources: Emerce, AD.nland MT
