Depending on how important in-person work is to your particular business, you will either love or worry about the results of a survey on working from home released by a Tennessee firm.
A company called Metova, which was founded in 2006, set out to build innovative mobile applications while creating a great place for people to work. Now, they’re sharing updated data following a second survey to determine how people feel about working from home during the pandemic.
The survey just completed in May was a followup to a survey a month earlier on the same issue. Working from home. The May survey of 1,000 people working from home found 83-percent have shifted their work hours to better suit their life, 75-percent say their job performance has either “increased or stayed the same,” and 25-percent say they are now working some hours on the weekends.
Metova conducted the survey as a followup to their April research which found that 57-percent of those newly working from home due to the coronavirus would prefer to work from home in the future.
Other results show:
- Many (46-percent) are working more hours overall – and also working hours that better fit their lifestyle…
- Only 15-percent of those newly working from home due to COVID-19 have maintained their previous work schedule…
- 68-percent have others in the household who are also working from home…
- 76-percent use video-conferencing as part of their daily work…
- 43-percent are “starting earlier – and stopping earlier in the day”…
- 38-percent are “starting later -and stopping later in the evening”…
- 26-percent are “distributing hours differently” (a mix of early, late and additional breaks)…
- “Comfortable environment” (51-percent) “Flexible schedule” (52-percent) and “No commute” (48-percent) are the top reasons for increased productivity…
- However, distraction is the leading cause of not being productive at 56-percent…
Metova, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, continues the tradition of building mobile applications, while focusing on creating software development solutions for mobile self-service industries as well as complete solutions for the connected home and vehicle and the Internet of Things.
