Name: 遠距工作的黃金時代已經過去了嗎？ (Is The Golden Age Of Remote Work Over?)
Uploaded: 2024-05-27T07:15:27.000Z
Duration: 10 min 50 s

This is how corporate America feels about remote work in 2023.

這就是 2023 年美國企業對遠程工作的看法。

living in la la land, it's messed up to assume that this

they have to go to work. But you don't. It's not just a

他們必須去上班。但你不用。這不僅僅是

productivity thing. I think it's morally wrong. Listen,

生產力問題。我認為這在道德上是錯誤的。聽著

it doesn't work for young kids. It doesn't work for spontaneity,

對年幼的孩子不起作用。它不適合自發性、

And this is how the corporate world felt about remote work in

這就是企業界對遠程工作的看法。

The biggest advantages I think, are access to large pools of

我認為，最大的優勢是可以獲得大量的

talent, who don't live around the big cities and aren't

人才，他們不住在大城市周圍，也不

we've all been forced into being remote now for nine months, I

九個月來，我們都被迫遠離家鄉，我

think we've realized that if you have somebody in a particular

我們已經意識到，如果有人在某一特定領域

location who's willing to work the hours to be able to

collaborate, you can do it very effectively. So it's changed

合作，你可以做得非常有效。是以，它改變了

我們曾考慮過聘用他們。讓我們

pause here, notice something in fewer than three years,

暫停一下，注意不到三年的時間、

corporate leaders have reversed their approach to remote work.

企業領導者對遠程工作的態度發生了逆轉。

And it seems like this tactic has been working, the latest

而這一策略似乎已經奏效，最新的

data from the Census Bureau found that fewer than 26% of US

人口普查局的數據發現，不到 26%的美國人

households still have someone working from home. That's down

the reason we're having this entire conversation about remote

work dying is first of all, because we kept thinking that

we're going to bounce back to quote unquote, normal when the

pandemic started, and we had people working from home. The

大流行病開始時，我們有人在家工作。我們的

idea was, this is very temporary, and we were all going

我們的想法是，這只是暫時的，我們都要

really what's changed the discussion about remote work is

the slowdown in the labor market. There are a lot of

employers out there who had suspicions about remote work

from the start. And you can see that kind of by the timing of

從一開始。你可以從以下時間點看出這一點

when people actually went to being remote during the start of

當人們在《世界人權宣言》頒佈之初，真正去做一個遙遠的人時

the pandemic. So the concerns that employers had about remote

work were present all during the Great reshuffle. But they didn't

在大洗牌期間，他們一直都在工作。但他們沒有

really have much of a choice. But with the emergency orders

真的別無選擇。但有了緊急命令

expiring for the pandemic this year. Now, they can actually

今年的大流行期滿。現在，他們實際上可以

start to bring people back and address some of those concerns

開始讓人們回來，並解決其中的一些問題

他們對生產率可能存在的疑問。

remote work was brought upon us basically by the pandemic,

遠程工作基本上是大流行病給我們帶來的、

before the pandemic remote work was pretty rare. So about 5% of

在大流行之前，遠程工作非常罕見。是以，大約 5%的

days, were forced to work from home, you know, all managers and

他們被迫在家工作，你知道，所有管理人員和

professionals were basically fully remote from March of 2020.

從 2020 年 3 月起，專業人員基本上都是遠程管理。

And then it turns out, it's worked really well,

such as no commute work in in your sweatpants doing your

例如，不需要穿著運動褲上下班，也不需要穿著運動褲做自己的

laundry between zoom calls, but also just the savings in terms

縮放通話之間的洗衣時間，但在以下方面也能節省成本

of time in terms of money in terms of your commute in terms

從時間、金錢、通勤的角度來看

of being able to spend more time with your children or pick them

能有更多時間陪伴孩子或接他們回家

found ways to be productive, to continue communications together

找到富有成效的方法，繼續共同交流

and to keep collaborating together. And whatever tools

並保持合作。無論使用什麼工具

they could invest in to support that work and that teamwork.

他們可以投資支持這項工作和團隊合作。

As the world slowly started to open up, corporate America began

隨著世界慢慢開始開放，美國企業開始

to change its tune on remote work, so much so that some firms

對遠程工作的態度有所改變，以至於一些公司

now even threatened to fire their employees, if they don't

現在甚至威脅要解僱他們的員工，如果他們不

zoom the company this is now throwing in the towel on fully

even zoom, the video conferencing company that helps

甚至 zoom，這家視頻會議公司幫助

make the remote work boom happened in the first place, is

使遠程工作熱潮得以興起的原因在於

also taking a hard line on return to office. It's an

也對復職採取強硬立場。這是一個

abrupt shift from last year, when I suggested a majority of

與去年相比，我的建議發生了突變。

its employees would work a hybrid schedule of just 2%

So some of the pushback remote work is driven by concerns about

是以，對遠程工作的一些反對意見是出於對以下方面的擔憂

productivity. There have been some experimental studies that

show that there's some productivity impact potentially

from remote work. But those studies are also experiments,

遠程工作帶來的好處。但這些研究也是實驗、

right? It's unclear how they applied to the broader labor

對不對？目前還不清楚它們如何適用於更廣泛的勞動領域。

the United States does have a productivity problem. Before the

second quarter of this year, the country had experienced five

今年第二季度，該國經歷了五次經濟危機。

consecutive quarters of year over year declines in worker

工人人數連續幾個季度同比下降

productivity. In fact, a major study that Professor Nicholas

生產力。事實上，尼古拉斯教授的一項重要研究就表明了這一點。

Bloom co authored found that fully remote work led to

布盧姆與他人合作發現，完全遠程工作會導致

productivity declines of about 10 to 20%, when compared to

other important thing in this study is we pointed out, look

這項研究的另一項重要內容是，我們指出，請看

what firms care about, ultimately, is profitability.

And it turns out that if you have an employee that's remote,

事實證明，如果你有一名遠程員工、

you also save a lot of costs. So you're saving about 10% less

還能節省大量成本。是以，您可以節省大約 10%的費用

overhead because you don't have an office and then you could

開銷，因為你沒有辦公室，然後你可以

have these folks, maybe nationally or internationally

讓這些人，也許在國內或國際上

and maybe save another 20 30 40% remote workers they may be 5

也許還能再節省 20% 30% 40% 的遠程工人，他們可能是 5

10% less productive, but they are so much cheaper that is

生產率低 10%，但它們的價格卻便宜得多，以至於

profitable for firms to have many teams many employees remote

對公司來說，擁有許多團隊和許多遠程員工是有利可圖的

if you're coming with the stat to protect yourself to put the

如果你帶著保護自己的狀態來把

positive narrative for people to return to work. I like to think

為人們重返工作崗位提供積極的說明。我認為

what were the productivity like when people were all working

當人們都在工作時，生產力是怎樣的？

from home what you're not allowed to have any face to face

從家裡，你不能有任何面對面的

worker at all right? So now you're spinning it in your

工人，對嗎？所以，現在你在你的

if the employee can perform their their duties and handle

員工是否能夠履行其職責並處理以下問題

their responsibilities. They should be encouraged to work

from wherever makes them feel as excited about life as possible.

從任何能讓他們對生活感到興奮的地方出發。

I camped in Key West for three weeks. I was in North Dakota in

我在基韋斯特露營了三個星期。我在北達科他州的

February, I've been up and down the coast of California and I've

二月，我在加利福尼亞海岸上上下下，我已經

been to our national parks. For me. That's where I feel best

去過我們的國家公園。對我來說那是我感覺最好的地方

working. And that's where I've gotten my best work done. I

工作在那裡，我完成了最好的工作。I