Homeworking as a concept covers various working situations, including outworkers or piecework, incidental homeworking, and agreed and defined regular homeworking. It denotes a shift from the traditional office working pattern of being physically present in an office every day from ‘9 to 5’.
The practice pre-dates the 2020 pandemic by many years, however, the popularity of the practice increased dramatically as millions of workers were relocated from offices to homes to reduce risk of virus transmission. It is often considered as a more productive way for the modern business to operate efficiently and can offer financial savings such as the reduction in required office space.
Keeping pace with the high demands of business management in the 21st Century, working across international boundaries and maximising employee working hours has transformed the way people work. Employers are creating work environments that support agile, dynamic, and resilient organisations by introducing different ways of working flexibly. This reduces travel time to and from the workplace and contributes to the achievement of a better work life balance bringing benefits to the employee and employer alike with research by ACAS finding a mixture of home and office working providing the most job satisfaction and work performance while reducing stress.
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