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The Global Remote Work Index 2023 ranks 108 countries on their quality as remote working destinations. Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany are the top three countries for remote working. In the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2023, some employers believe policies to encourage remote working could increase talent availability.
The types of work likely to evolve into these remote working digital jobs include higher paying roles with incomes over $75,000, based on US wage levels. Software developers, finance managers and financial risk specialists fall into this category.
He predicts that remote-first startups will figure out new ways of working asynchronously, making fully-remote work more manageable than the version we use today. And he expects economic geography to shift in big ways, with workers free to live wherever they want to—from hometowns to ski towns—instead of wherever they work.
Professionally, relationships with managers (28%), teammates (25%) and other colleagues (21%) advanced, making the transition to remote work smoother. These numbers are especially striking considering that people have spent more time working during COVID than before – their relationship with their manager is crucial to a happy and healthy ...
“Ensuring employee well-being is among the key measures undertaken by business leaders looking to effectively shift to remote work,” the report’s authors write. “In particular, 34% of leaders report that they are taking steps to create a sense of community among employees online and looking to tackle the well-being challenges posed by ...
More than 20% of the workforce in advanced economies could work remotely three to five days a week as effectively as if working from an office – three to four times the share of workers able to work from home prior to COVID-19. If remote work persists at that level, it would dramatically reshape urban economies, transportation and consumer ...
According to Owl Labs' State of Remote Work Report, “1 in 2 people won’t return to jobs that don’t offer remote work after COVID-19.” Goodhire report that “61% of Americans would be willing to take a pay cut to maintain remote working status.” According to Growmotely, 74% of professionals expect remote work to become the new normal.
Remote work should boost cultural understanding and respect. It should help to reduce stereotypes, exclusion and discrimination. Simply working with people from other cultures does not automatically help to develop cultural awareness, however – companies need to invest in developing intercultural skills.
Mental health is a major factor impacting productivity for remote work. The report says: “Remote workers are faced with potential well-being and mental health challenges due to extensive changes to working practices as well as new areas of exclusion such as access to digital connectivity, living circumstances and the additional care responsibilities faced by parents or those looking after ...
Rather than threatening productivity growth, remote work provides us with the opportunity to close labour market gaps and reduce spatial mismatch. Remote work also has great potential in helping spread productivity across different geographies, rather than hoarding economic opportunity into a handful of geographies with costly housing markets.