The State of Remote Work

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Rolando Rosas
Rolando Rosas

Rolando Rosas is the Founder of Global Teck Worldwide, which offers business and office technology for seamless customer communications. In his role, he leads his team to provide insights on e-commerce trends, digital marketplace strategies, and client success metrics. Rolando is also the Founder of CircuitLoops.com, which uses AI to match businesses to the lowest-priced internet service provider. As an entrepreneur, he has founded three startups and hosts the What The Teck? podcast.

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Dave Kelly is the General Manager of Global Teck Worldwide and the co-host of the What The Teck? podcast. He holds a bachelor’s in telecommunications management from the New England Institute of Technology, where he focused on the acceleration of networks transitioning from digital IP to support successful business communications. Before Global Teck Worldwide, Dave was the Account Manager at Jabra and the Territory Manager at Polycom. 

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • [0:00] Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly talk about the onset of remote work 
  • [3:31] How remote work boosts employee productivity
  • [13:59] Remote work’s impact on employee morale and health
  • [22:54] Remote work statistics on job satisfaction and work-life balance
  • [26:05] The benefits of a flexible work environment — and how to refurbish unused infrastructure
  • [32:50] How have remote work perspectives shifted since the pandemic?
  • [44:19] Dave and Rolando discuss the drastic workforce shift

In this episode…

Before the pandemic, a survey of Japanese employees revealed that 74% preferred to work in the office. This consensus declined to a staggering 15% during and after the pandemic. As employees begin to appreciate the benefits of remote work and the evolution of technology to accommodate this shift, how can this phenomenon boost your company’s bottom line?

Remote work advocates Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly compiled the leading statistics on remote work trends and advantages. They discovered productivity and performance increased by 5% as employees nurtured an adequate work-life balance by elevating sleep, mental health, and physical activity. Additionally, underutilized workspaces can be modified to repair infrastructure, reduce carbon footprints, and enhance business development, revitalizing underserved communities. With less road traffic and unused infrastructure, businesses can deploy these resources for further growth.

Join Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly in this episode of What The Teck? as they chat about remote work trends and benefits for companies and their employees. Together, they explain how remote work promotes job satisfaction, improves work-life balance, and enhances employee morale.

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Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Global Teck Worldwide. 

We are a full-service online retailer of professional headsets, webcams, and speaker phones from top manufacturers. 

Since 2002, Global Teck Worldwide has provided affordable, high-quality communications equipment and customized telecommunications services to organizations of all sizes.

Our specialists have invested hundreds of hours in technical training, certifications, and seminars to assist customers with purchasing decisions. 

We have served thousands of customers in a variety of industries with value-added services, including ergonomics, employee work accommodations, and hearing-impaired services. 

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Episode Transcript:

Rolando Rosas 0:10

Welcome to What The Teck? your gateway to business strategies and tech secrets, shaping today’s workplace. Three years ago, the world experienced an unprecedented event, a pandemic that forced millions of people to work from home and adjust a whole new way of life. This change sparked the new preference among many employees favoring remote work setup. But the question remains, does the research and economic data support the claims regarding work from home? In today’s episode, we’re delving into the most recent data, bringing to light the cold, hard facts about remote in hybrid working over there is my buddy from Southern New Hampshire, Dave Kelly.

Dave Kelly 1:04

In joining us over here, right outside the nation’s capital, right outside of DC. Global Teck Worldwide is founder, Rolando Rosas, Rolando. Nice to see you.

Rolando Rosas 1:15

Thank you. Yes, I’m glad to be here. And you know, Dave, you know, a couple of months ago, we had one of the podcasts favorite guests that we like having on Steve Cadigan, of LinkedIn of formerly of LinkedIn. And he had mentioned to us that he’s been retained, you know, he’s a consultant. And he’s been retained by several Fortune 500 companies that have hired him multiple times to coach the middle management of those companies to convince C level executives on on remote working and using it and deploying it, and continuing that effort. And, you know, I got to thinking, well, let’s help some of the folks that would that are listening to us, and that probably will come across this information as helpful with actual research. What’s the research, say about remote working? Are there numbers that prove without a shadow of a doubt that this is beneficial, not just for the employees, but for the organization as well. And the profitability because that’s the bottom line, you’re in business to make money and to be profitable. If you’re not profitable, you ain’t gotta be around for very long, right? So if remote working does cut into the profits, let’s look at that data. Or conversely, does it help raise profits? And I think we have some real compelling numbers about how it can actually boost the bottom line.

Dave Kelly 2:42

Yeah, looking forward to seen really checking out these numbers. You know, what I thought was cool about Steve Cadigan. He wrote, he started writing Workquake, prior to the pandemic. So here we are, post pandemic, summer of 2023. You know, for the past two and a half years, everyone has been talking about work from home. And actually, you know, it was certainly forced upon us forced upon us luckily, we’re in a world where we’ve had the technology available for a very long time, it was a matter of working with people to increase adoption, show them the technology, the value of that, and, you know, work with the deployment piece, but Workquake Steve was already talking about this long before, you know, before it was thrown upon us. 

Rolando Rosas 3:31

And he was talking about so included in that was work culture, and how that’s changing. And I mean, he could have foreseen, you know, he seems like a prophet now. But he couldn’t have foreseen the Append global pandemic, that would completely change our lives. And the more that we read into this topic, and researched it, the more you find out that this phenomena of how work has changed, and let’s say it has changed is not just an American thing. It’s a global thing. It’s in Asia, it’s in Europe, Latin America, and also in Africa. So bringing some of this information forward, so that our audience, as well as others that are researching this topic and have this stuff at their fingertips, I think is going to be very beneficial for lots of folks involved. So let’s go right into it. Dave, let’s go into some of the research. That’s out right now. You know, when we were looking at this, we were looking at, where, where could we find studies that actually have some stats on some of this? And so proto score, did a research on 105 million data points and I’m going to read it to you exactly word for word after evaluating 105 million data points from 30,000, US based proto score users, we discovered a 5% increase in productivity during the pandemic work from home period. And this is the president of proto score. Although as and now I’m quoting him directly again, although as we know, any variant of the COVID-19 variant of virus is unpredictable. This is the important part, employee productivity is not. So that is really interesting on so many levels, one 105 million data points, not five, not 10, not 100, not even 50,000 105 million data points. And then, the next part that was even more interesting was that the productivity of employees was predictable, not unpredictable. And in that article, he goes on to say that workers that were performing well are doing good work. And I’m paraphrasing, now, workers that were doing well are performing well, on site at the office, also did the same off site, while working remotely, as well as those that were not good performers. Were also not good performers when it came to remote work. And I would imagine, Dave, is that not just the fact that you may have some workers that are maybe not productive when they’re off site? In a lot of cases, and you know, we were in the trenches with a lot of companies with this. A lot of companies deployed minimally, minimally, or, or inadequate solutions to their workers throughout the pandemic. And some have improved that as we’ve moved along. But a lot of workers went home without the right tools. And I, I don’t know if I would have initially guessed that productivity would have gone up. But Rolanda says, I’m in the study that you have right here. productivity increased by 5%. That is correct. During the during homeroom, I’ll make sure I have that right. During the pandemic work from home period. Now, if we were to, we don’t have the president that David has his name. But I bet the period that they may have been looking at was when most folks were sent home. And we have some information from Fujitsu with 80,000 employees that kind of touches on the same thing. But I this is the period when people will read most workers were still at home, because offices were closed, and nobody knew what was going to happen. So people were at home for a prolonged period of time, things have changed, right things up, restrictions have loosened up. And we’ve got some also some data that we want to show you what’s happened as a result for 15 months or five quarters, since that period of time. But Dave, that period of time produced results for companies in the positive direction of productivity. And during that period of time, the Department of Labor and Statistics have also had data that showed that productivity gains were occurring, while workers were mostly at home, especially knowledge based workers, they were producing productivity gains for their organizations. You know, I mean, you think about the benefits of working from home, right, you have the ability to maybe sleep in a little bit longer, perhaps you’re a little less stressed. 

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