By Brady Hicks For today’s remote workforce, the boundaries between home and office life can be fuzzy. As nearly half of all U.S. employees, as counted by Statista, continue working from home, businesses are assuming a degree of loss-of-control over the day-to-day activities, habits and practices of their far-flung workforces. Amidst other pandemic-era struggles, organizations try almost daily to maintain the productivity they feel they once had before the era of telework. Compounding this issue is news from the homefront. Among remote employees, feelings of loneliness and isolation are common, while many point to pressing concerns over the spillover of work-related tasks into their day-to-day lives, and vice versa. In fact, the Harvard Business Review recently stated that more than 80 percent of remote staff witnessed a diminished work-life balance, resulting in 42 percent of those surveyed feeling less productive overall. The lines between dedicated work and personal time are more blurred than ever. Armed with this knowledge, one would expect greater flexibility and empathy from employers. CONTROL The Tattleware Scare What the boss may not be telling workers 46 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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