Research from homeworking outsourcer Sensée suggests home-based employees are choosing to work more hours than when they worked in traditional offices. Despite opting to work more hours daily, the research found that home workers are happier because they’re empowered to choose the hours they work so they can still attend to family responsibilities. Three quarters of current home-based employees (77 per cent) stated that working from home enables them to achieve more in their day, including caring for family members or friends, exercising more and further education. Time and money saved on commuting – along with more control over their day – were cited among the top three benefits of working from home.  Read the article
Although increased flexibility is supposedly ending the need for horrible commuting and crammed overpriced cities more people are actually moving into urban areas and many services are becoming centralised. To get some feedback on this and other apparent contradictions IDG Connect caught up with Chris Lansbury, Commercial Manager of Crown Workplace Relocations and Steve Mosser, CEO of UK homeworking outsourcer, Sensée.