Recently Microsoft conducted a survey that shows bosses and workers disagree about productivity when working from home. Bosses worry about the new working conditions thinking about productivity. The survey shows that 87% of the workers feel they work as or more efficiently from home whereas 80% of the managers disagree with it.
The survey includes more than 20,000 participants from 11 countries. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive told the BBC that the tension in workplaces needed to be resolved. It is less likely that the work will ever return to pre-pandemic working habits. He said, “We have to get past what we describe as ‘productivity paranoia’ because all of the data we have shows that 80% plus of the individual people feel they’re very productive – except their management thinks that they’re not productive.
“That means there is a real disconnect in terms of the expectations and what they feel.”
The biggest shift in working patterns in History
Ryan Roslansky and Mr Nadella said that employers were grappling with perhaps the biggest shift in work patterns in history. According to sources, fully-remote jobs advertised on LinkedIn soared during the Pandemic. Mr Roslnsky said that around 14 to 15 million job listing on LinkedIn are typically live, 2% of them are remote work whereas a few months ago it reached 20%. Meanwhile, a law firm says people working from home get 20% less pay. Also, famous entrepreneur Elon Musk declares an end to remote work at his firm Tesla.
According to Mr Nadella, it’s hard to recruit, train and retain staff where the labour market has a significant amount of shortage. ‘’We had 70,000 people who joined Microsoft during the pandemic. They sort of saw Microsoft through the lens of the pandemic. And now when we think about the next phase, you need to re-organize them, re-recruit them, help them form social connections.’’
