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How You Can Benefit from Opening an International Remote Office

A survey from October 2020 showed that 71% of American workers were working from home at that moment.

Dr. Maria Stern
5 min readOct 21, 2021
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What’s more, 54% of employees said that they would like to continue working from home after the pandemic ends.

The coronavirus outbreak showed us that we do have the prerequisites to establish remote offices. Still, many employers remain on the fence.

Companies like IBM and Yahoo quickly brought their workers back to offices after having them successfully working from home for a good while.

Did they do so because remote workers are truly hurting the company, or are there other factors at play?

That’s what we’ll discuss today by reviewing the benefits and drawbacks of remote working. If you’re a business owner or manager, you don’t want to miss this.

When employees want space…

…supervisors want more control.

This is one of the likelier reasons why many companies brought their workers back into offices, despite them proving that they can work remotely.

Supervisors didn’t feel in control.

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Dr. Maria Stern
Dr. Maria Stern

Written by Dr. Maria Stern

Founder and CEO of GRC. Art addict, science preacher. My formula: and if not now, then when? https://thegrc.co/

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