Your team works from home. Is home working?
Remote work saves companies money, and most employees love the flexibility. But a kitchen table has costs that never show up on an invoice.
Where the hours go
- Interruptions. Children, a neighbour at the door, a delivery, a collector for tzedakah. Each one is a minute; together they are the afternoon.
- Slower decisions. A question that takes ten seconds across a desk takes an hour over chat.
- Fewer ideas. The useful conversation that starts by the kettle doesn’t happen alone at home.
- Wellbeing. Weeks alone at home wear people down, and it shows in focus and in output.
What it costs
Low engagement is expensive. A Gallup report, covered by Forbes, put the cost to businesses worldwide at $8.8 trillion a year in lost productivity.
A simple fix
Keep the remote job, and move the desk. A coworking space gives your people a quiet desk, fast internet and a door for calls, without the commute to a head office or a lease in your name.
OfficeOurs, in Har Hotzvim, has a room for men and a room for women, fully separate, so the whole team has a place. You add or drop desks month to month, and staff can book on the company’s account. As one Lakewood COO put it: “It definitely promoted a better work environment.”