{"id":599858,"date":"2022-06-24T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=599858"},"modified":"2022-06-24T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:58:42","slug":"elon-musk-is-wrong-about-working-from-home-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/599858\/elon-musk-is-wrong-about-working-from-home-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is wrong about working from home: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by business solutions company Expert Market shows Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is wrong about working from home.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s richest man weighed in on the return-to-office debate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/592406\/elon-musk-tells-tesla-execs-return-to-the-office-or-get-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this month<\/a><\/strong> on Twitter by expanding on a leaked email sent to Tesla staff members. Musk wrote that remote work is &#8216;no longer acceptable&#8217; and anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or leave the car company.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a Twitter follower who asked about the email and what his thoughts were on remote work Musk said &#8211; &#8220;They should pretend to work somewhere else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They should pretend to work somewhere else<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531867103854317568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Expert Market&#8217;s survey of CEOs and founders from 125 European and North American companies shows that working from home has largely been beneficial for both businesses and workers.<\/p>\n<p>It found that <strong>92% saw positive benefits<\/strong> of flexible working options, with only 16% reporting negative impacts. <strong>94% of executives said they will continue<\/strong> working in a hybrid\/remote way.<\/p>\n<p>Only 7% of the hybrid companies aim to eventually return to the office full time in the next couple of years, while the remaining 93% will continue in a hybrid way.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three out of four (74%) of the fully remote companies Expert Market spoke to stated that they will stay remote. 22% will move to a hybrid way of working, and 4% aim to return to the office in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Only 16% of respondents said that there were negative impacts of hybrid\/remote working, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isolation has an impact on employee mental health (6%);<\/li>\n<li>Tech\/communication issues (2%);<\/li>\n<li>Issues with employees overworking (2%);<\/li>\n<li>Missed office culture\/relationships (2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s hardly surprising that businesses are keen to keep their flexible working practices considering the improvements in employee productivity and happiness, and a better work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that the workplace changes brought on by the pandemic have helped businesses and employers better understand how to get the most out of their employees; essentially, by giving employees more control over where and how they work best,&#8221; said Chloe Mayo, editor of Expert Market.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/599898\/south-africa-is-making-a-big-localisation-push-and-has-stopped-using-some-international-products-ramaphosa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa is making a big localisation push \u2013 and has stopped using some international products: Ramaphosa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by business solutions company Expert Market shows Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is wrong about working from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":574952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17066,26],"class_list":["post-599858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-opinion","tag-expert-market","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599936,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599858\/revisions\/599936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}