According to a major new Microsoft survey, managers and employees have fundamentally different opinions on productivity when working from home. Bosses wonder whether working from home is equally productive as being in the office. While 87% of employees said that working from home increased their productivity, 80% of supervisors didn't agree.
In 11 different nations, the poll questioned more than 20,000 employees. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, told a news agency that this tension needed to be handled because it was unlikely that companies would ever revert to their pre-pandemic working practices.
"We have to get past what we describe as 'productivity paranoia' because all of the data we have shows that more than 80% of people believe they are highly productive, but their management disagrees.
"That means there is a real disconnect in terms of the expectations and what they feel."
Both Mr. Nadella and Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, stated that companies were grappling with what may be the largest change in working patterns in history.
During the pandemic, there were many more entirely remote jobs posted on LinkedIn than ever before, but Mr. Roslansky said data suggested that kind of position may have reached its peak.
About 2% of the 14 or 15 million job listings that are regularly active on LinkedIn contained remote work before the outbreak, he said the a agency That was 20% a few months ago, but it has now decreased to 15% this month.