During 2014, at the London Business School’s Global Leadership Summit, business leaders in collaboration with Deloitte were asked a series of questions around remote work. By 2020, “34% said more than half and 25% said more than three-quarters would not work in a traditional office.” However, they got it wrong. According to a recent survey by StackOverFlow, only 12% of developers are working remotely. Out of this 12%, 15% of the respondents were asked to complete the Fizz Buzz Test — a programming interview test that’s used to filter job candidates. Remote working still has a long way to go. However, with that being said, there are many companies reaping the benefits of remote work like Buffer, Stripe, Basecamp, and Ghost. Then, a big question to think about is why aren’t more tech companies embracing remote work? Here are 3 reasons why companies should welcome remote workers. 1. Increased productivityIn 2013, Ph.D. candidate Chris Parnin was investigating task interruption and conducted a study that recorded 10,000 programming sessions. Parnin found that it takes a programmer “between 10-15 to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption." Today, Parnin is an Assistant Professor at NC State University and teaches computation ...
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