70% of employees feel they have been more productive while working remotely

A recent survey of over 1,000 employees conducted by employee engagement platform vendor, Workvivo found that 85% of employees are more positive about working from home in the mass remote work experiment since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

The survey also found that 70% of employees feel they have been more productive while working remotely from home. While 63% of employees who began working from home at the beginning of the pandemic feel that their employers have been communicating with them more while working remotely, 51% feel the same way with their co-workers.

Speaking on the results of the survey, CEO of Workvivo John Goulding said: “Remote work was a major adjustment for businesses all over the world – but clearly we’re now seeing a very tangible and explicit desire and expectation for longer-term flexibility among employees. As companies work to attract and maintain talent, it will be vital to offer this flexibility to compete.”

Some key findings of survey below

— 53.6% would not like to return to the office.

— 63% of employees approve of how employers have treated them since working from home.

— 34% said that meeting colleagues in the office is the thing they’d miss most if they were to work from home permanently.

— 23% said they’d miss getting out of the house.

— 49% chose not having to commute as one of the top answers for why they like working from home.