Why working from home is good for business | The Way We Work, a TED series

[@SeanTheDon17]

“Talent and intelligence are equally distributed throughout the world, but Opportunity is not” This is an amazing insight, if more companies adopted this mindset, they would find much more fulfilled employees.

[@NiseGen-13]

I can imagine coal miners doing work from home.

[@Altaria_]

Working at home haves a lot of benefits. And he gave a lot of good points, not olny to manage your time and create your own schedule, create an ideal space where you feel comfortable and you can be productive. This gives many opportunities to people who live far from the company as well.

[@Virru112]

Could listen to this guy all day... Great voice, message and character

[@rhabeldibabeldi6812]

me too. You should go and check out the interviews with tim ferris (if you havent already), they are pretty good

[@abreham97]

still listening?

[@zumbadancesandy]

I love when you mentioned that you dont use the word 'remote worker' and about documentations. In our company we are switching from Skype to TEAMs for example. Also you are showing empathy to others.

[@aminozuur]

Matt Mullenweg is the best. I've been following his writings and thoughts for 10 years. He's an original thinker.

[@maskman6146]

With such an environment, no need to quit your job to travel around the world. You are able to do your job and travel at the same time!

[@rajoak3097]

I am starting my own company for STEM toys and these series seem to be a perfect guideline to manage my team!

[@DW-vl2wi]

Good idea.

[@adnansz8930]

Covid 19 makes my office forced to wfh and wfo. 5 days work (3 days in office and 2 days in work from home except you theres a urgent or must meet a client).I will say that please even when covid 19 end, i hope my office keep this schedule. It feels like more productive.

[@stayfree870]

This is the lifestyle that I wanted, the freedom to live anywhere in the world. I love my current job but I'm stuck living at home because I'm in the tech hardware service field (field technician). I need to be physically at locations to fix things when somethings are not working. With all the free time I have I wish I can pick up and move but I can't go far in case I'm needed.

[@Linfamy]

One downside to working without an office is the isolation. In an office you have coworkers to interact with. Sure there are ways to mitigate this, like video conferencing, but it's not the same. There's no "hey let's go grab a drink after work" with your coworkers.

[@topaznora2055]

Which is perfect!! Work isn't a frat house! I hate jobs where there is a social structure to get ahead. Work should be based on your work!! If you aren't basically bff with the managers they don't recommend you for new positions... Ugh!! Can't wait to leave. I'd work from home everyday if I could. Hate working with random annoyingly friendly/shady people.

[@CaptainSteen]

I hate having to be social with coworkers. It's like forced friends! Wouldn't you prefer choosing your friends?

[@syhlex]

I work with a company as a field technician and I understand the feeling of isolation. It was very hard for me to adjust at first. I had come from an environment where I knew everyone, and the idea of working shoulder to shoulder was the norm. These people were part of something greater, a tribe who experienced the same daily nuances, and although we were never really forced to connect, the nature of the environment encouraged it. Of course the feeling of connecting on a much deeper level cannot translate well with video conferencing, persistent emails, and chatty phone calls. There’s just so much more information in person. Things started to change when I shifted my focus through introspection to begin seeing the best in all of this. I started realizing the amount of freedom I was gifted. This bit was empowering. So I started to embrace this new role by listening to audiobooks, TEDTalks and reading books. I opened my heart to new people outside of work building, bonding, and allowed me to allocate my energy differently.

[@klimtkahlo]

Topaz Nora every job in America seems to work like that. People have no life outside their jobs and they only have work friends, which is mostly always phony and out of interest. Terrible!

[@stayfree870]

I work by myself now but I do miss having lunch and coffee breaks with my coworkers and with my manager. It took some time to get used to working solo but no drama or politics is great.

[@gabrielareyna6985]

This a great idea now that we are under this pandemic we need to innovate. I have been working from home for over 6 months and I can say I really would like to continue like this. My students enjoyed this video a lot

[@misterkiller89]

It certainly changed things across all levels of society.

[@spencerjentzsch8807]

I work for a remote company that helps connect other remote workers so you aren't dealing with some of the problems people discuss here like being in isolation or loneliness. Traveling with the Hacker Paradise group is the only way I've been able to survive three years on the road without going crazy. The big benefit for me of doing this as opposed to just socializing with your coworkers in an office is that you get more power to choose who you want to be with and they generally align more with my interests.

[@GMRTranscriptionServicesInc]

Remote working opportunities are great for a work-life balance. As rightly pointed out in this video, not just the employees but also the employers are benefited at large. By stretching geographically, employers can hire the best quality resources from a vastly spread out talent pool.

[@sameershaikh3996]

Finally found this gem while searching for benefits of WFH for companies after two years WFH since the lockdown

[@m.t-thoughts8919]

A plus is your projects will be worked on 24/7. But no one needs to do over work. 👌🏼

[@ad-bk9bo]

I work from home and it is a great experience. I'm willing to forgo better opportunities, just to stay here. I live in the country, but have 30mbs (somehow) wifi. One thing I have learned though is that it is nice to have colleagues in the office. For easy questions. Leave emails for business... text or skype chat (whatever) for other things. Use the web camera!

[@technolus5742]

I don't have colleagues, I work on my own and it is still a great experience. I do think it would be nice sometimes to have skilled people nearby to look up to and to learn from. But now a days with google, youtube, coursera, and others I don't really feel disadvantaged in this regard. It is also very satisfying to know that I can make it on my own and that no one has the ability to lay me off. :)

[@saurabhpandit26]

I think ideally both choices should be available... Sometimes u need to physically collaborate with you team to get stuff done other time you can work alone at home....

[@andersonakerman9849]

I totally agree with you, working at home is a very good way to work!. In my case I hadn't have a work yet and I would like to work at the company, in that case I could choose work at home or at the company or the office!.

[@topaznora2055]

Lol overly outgoing people are already complaining about not being able to socialize. Not everyone enjoys or even wants to socialize after work. No! I don't want to grab a beer... I just spend the whole day with you people, the last thing I want to do is spend my non paid free time with you. Working from home all the time would honestly be a dream! To the outgoing people complaining... Honestly, you can go play in traffic. 🙂🙂

[@leonflorence118]

Hahaha I feel the same way

[@MsLulumaria]

Amen!

[@ethanhall8662]

Agree with you Nora 100%

[@marvinschumann6832]

As you said, you do not want to go out with them since you already spend all your time with them. If you spent most of your time home alone, you would very likely change your mind

[@reducecotwo]

The people who do enjoy socializing don't really want to hang out with the ones who don't anyways, lol

[@xForeverXXI]

Sounds ideal! Goals.

[@gabyyou7516]

I like every idea that you gave us because it's a fact that a lot of workers are working from home and it's important that some companies can give us some opportunities and we could know some information about working from home.

[@juancho1254]

I think this videos is sooo helpful because is giving us some tips of how we can do a really good work from home specially right now that almost 70% of works are doing or using the work from home, at least here in my country no many companies have this option but right now a lot are using it so everyone needs to share this video 🙂

[@ktc333]

This sounds brilliant.

[@AmandaDavie]

Very inspiring and very simple. A no brainer business case.

[@celeste8467]

everyone can work from home and I agree that we must believe in the talent and intelligence of each person, because it is something very important that can unite us all and do a great job.

[@mariajoserodriguez5892]

Awesome ideas, It's helping us a lot nowadays because we are improving our office at home. Sometimes it's difficult but when we find the way it's easy and we really enjoy it. Thanks!

[@edwincalderon2526]

This video provides many details of the advantages and tips that most companies should implement to increase the performance and growth of their workers.

[@karlasamayoa7631]

I think that He gave us good advices because it is important to know somethings before to begin work at home and my favorite advice is find right tools because I think that if the company has good app or tools, our job will be easier and we can be more productive

[@zeph6439]

Great video. If most people would work from home instead, it would be so much easier on the environment, besides all of the other advantages you mention..

[@pinchastaylor]

I just recently started a non-profit and really appreciate this video. We should be able to utilize some of these tips for all the work that goes into creating the videos we post to this channel. Thanks again!

[@the_best_of_times]

Your wish to work from home has now been granted it seems. Welcome to the new normal. 2020

[@whatsnext_42]

Not exactly, 2021, as governments loosen measures, companies force people back to the office/dungeons.

[@channelbizt]

If you fast forward a decade... how about a year when an unforeseen pandemic occurs.

[@joycecalson5728]

WORKING FROM HOME SET UP IS THE FUTURE WORLDWIDE...THERES A LOT OF ADVANTAGES...

[@cryptomom3170]

I like to be in control of my work environment!

[@shuu_39]

Wait, this video was released before the pandemic?!

[@ellerylittlefield6143]

Influence is amazing but careful out there it's so easy to isolate and lose track of time on your own schedule!

[@NilesBlackX]

These are great points, does TED hire remote workers? Say, from places that aren't within driving distance of their offices?

[@vishnuvardhan720728]

Please give us a job

[@technolus5742]

What can you do?

[@nabilachaaraouinetwork5683]

John Waters Me two ,, i can sell any thing online .

[@technolus5742]

@@nabilachaaraouinetwork5683 I dont have a business set up yet, but I am looking to do so. Can you sell website creation and maintenance services to small businesses? What work conditions you need in order to perform that function? Note that I don't have clients at the moment so the business's viability would depend on your ability to get clients for my services.

[@IceyJunior]

Construction field? Small subsubcon company? How can I apply this?

[@lamminhtriet7606]

This idea became more popular today, specially after Covid pandemic 😀

[@charlieahmen6348]

this is so amazing

[@giggleghost3751]

Working from home is the best.

[@PreferidoIncPLLC]

Great thoughts shared! Been surely one of the most controversial and debatable topics in past few years. Due to numerous factors, circumstances or choices this might have prevailed or continued to prevail; the following was accomplished during this period too which is surely worth sharing with everyone. "Cost avoidance of $192,000.00 during this period. Building professional and personal relationships for short term and long term strategies, enablements as well as shared value propositions".

[@MrPDawes]

I work from home and it's f#%king lonely. It's great not having to commute but my work requires to travel all over the country and when I am at home it's nice to recharge, but it's very isolating. Also, half my home has been taken over by work and costs me in heating and electricity all day.

[@carprincess]

I do love the idea of working from home as an office. However doing so requires so much structure and will power. After all the place you consider your 'relaxation zone' now could be a place of stress and your work-life line gets much more blurry when you work from home. People start to think you are available at all hours. I only work from home on Fridays, which is nice and in the future I'd want to have a system and more 'office' like workspace so I could increase the number of days I work from home each week. I waste so much time commuting so working from home 2 or 3 days of the week seems like a great way to get time back. Overall I'm conflicted on the idea, but I definitely think the pros beat the cons IF the person working from home is able to focus on working and is able to balance their work and life.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Could work well, if* all the employees clearly understand the mission and the goals of the company. Where the managers do not have to push for results all the time. Distributed companies are able to grow faster, because they do not deal with local laws for hiring people. They pay on the pay by month basis. It's like a way around the bureaucracy. The better Internet access will make distributed companies more and more common on our planet !

[@Hexydes]

"Could work well, if all the employees clearly understand the mission and the goals of the company." If your company doesn't already have clearly defined missions and goals, where your employees are working won't make a difference. One of the main reasons so many managers and employers are against remote work is because it's one thing they CAN control (where and when people are working) since they don't have control over their company's goals or mission.

[@bsaunders]

Distributed companies do deal with local laws for hiring people. That's one of the impediments to companies adopting this. They have to deal with local laws (such as tax withholding) everywhere an employee might be.

[@spongebobsquarepants1411]

Most people watching this don't own a business

[@umarfarooqleo1]

I do own a company

[@Daedalusization]

me too

[@Sergugnivenko]

So what?

[@connie1690]

Yeesh

[@sonikasingh5618]

My productivity has sored since CoVID situation. I just cannot focus with open office space and distractions every 2 minutes

[@armslides2105]

Get a private office or cubicle. Open plan offices suck, that's why people prefer to work at home, not because they don't like offices, but because they don't like open plan offices.

[@HunterHemingway]

this type of environment coupled with future transportation, the bees knees🐝

[@8dtamilsongs949]

Time is money. Work from home saves time.

[@paokmoo]

This is not news. But you did notmention "self dicepline", to work from home people must have self dicipline, most people dosent have it. People must also be social for getting energy to get the work done. Thats why many compaines let they eployees to work both from home and the office.

[@vaibhavgupta20]

Sources for most people don't have self discipline.

[@topaznora2055]

If you have to force or keep an eye on your employees for them to do their work, then either you are a terrible manager (which I'm guessing you probably are) or you have terrible employees. Consider getting new employees.... But my money is on your lack of self awareness. People just hate working for you!

[@adriancarter2789]

dont hire them

[@paokmoo]

@Dao Quang Maybe you could start your own cmpanie?

[@Raphaelo325]

I don't know what you do, but I sooo want to work for you!

[@mommaof1337]

HOW DO I APPLY??

[@baraaalamayreh9190]

Dude you're great 👍👍👌👌

[@nashkp2764]

cool speech

[@bloated_noodles452]

This! 💛

[@khokh699]

Exactly. Im a game developer and i choose to work remotely because i live in Iraq and in Iraq there are no game companies, so the best and most efficient way to for me is to work from home. At least for now, im planning on moving to another country😊

[@timluttrell1095]

As a business owner that has attempted the work at home concept locally my question is how do you maintain accountability? We had some problems with team members not doing so much work but were involved in other areas of their lives while on the clock.

[@minimcune]

The area you have opportunity to improve may not be accountability per se, but more one of motivation / commitment & engagement. It's not working in a physical office that gets the work done - because low effort / input exists both in remote and non remote staff. How can you engage those staff more so they want to spend more time doing the work? It sounds as though you're looking to keep these people accountable - and I'm wondering if having them be accountable to themselves might work better? Setup a time each week where you can discuss the work, have a check-in, give people a chance to tell you what they've done. Remember, working from home / remotely IS about flexibility, if, in the middle of the day a staff member needs to get some personal things done, they're exercising that flexibility, as long as the work itself gets done, then everyone goes home happy. Good luck!

[@miznahalkhalaf5197]

الترجمة العربية متأخرة عن الوقت اتمنى تعدلوها.

[@anthonydrouin2654]

Looking for work

[@marcobaldo3000]

This guy has the same voice of Paul Davids

[@coachdas4154]

Thanks

[@MisterDivineAdVenture]

Couple of really hard things to understand - they did WHAT on a fishing pier? 4:10 "I THINK?" that companies will be dist.... Perfect, Matt -- you're just a model of beardedness at whatever age!

[@raddad0]

They put their stipends together to make a workspace on or near a pier.

[@misterkiller89]

This was...before it's time. Going into 2+ years of Covid-19....

[@NupeAtl]

*Exactly*

[@FikiFirmansyah]

sounds good, doest works

[@ppaulinka]

awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!! :D

[@armslides2105]

"We had one group in Seattle who pooled their co-working stipend together to rent a workspace". Ah, so basically they pooled their resources to rent an office. Lol

[@77Night77Shade77]

The basic problem with working in *an office.

[@indigohypixel]

i wud probably just stay home and play video games instead of working

[@chandimas]

💯

[@kazuto00]

0:00

[@wklim2201]

Wrong! Work from office is more peace than at home with being annoyed by family and pets always interrupted.

[@ahmadalrashedi5718]

Can I get hired boss

[@MWtheMonke]

I don't think it's for everyone. It doesn't appeal to me as an extrovert.

[@gaetanovindigni8824]

Sign me up.

[@pth6060]

There is no reason that people that work from home pay residential tax. People that run their businesses from home should be paying business tax which is 4 times higher they should be soaked for every penny they have because all they want to do is be lazy at home ,sleep in and live their own lives rather than going to work in an office. The long term effects of this will hurt everyone for many years to come.

[@umarsantosoo]

mc gregor

[@wklim2201]

Wrong - I like work at the office is more better much than work at home. Office is peace and more activities without family. Home is interrupted from family with requests, annoyed times and lazy.

[@hjdgg5796]

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[@vikas274]

I cant work from home... i cant concentrate when i hear my kid crying or asking for his time. If i am physically in office, then i m mentally in office. Same way speaker mentioned its better to hire japanese than a japanese born in california... its better to be in location... physically n mentally

[@officially_s]

4:06 Did he predict covid 19?

[@MrNiceGuy500]

Working from home is fake. I can’t work from home and the inequalities that the remote work people have created is vast. I hate people that work from home.

[@truenorth4140]

Very Romantic, how about, no health insurance, 7 /Hr, Like UBR no employee just another contractor, No human resources, Yes you are free, competing with all around the world, You are a Genius!!!

[@paulbroderick8438]

Yes, yes and yes BUT what do working from home individuals DO? No product, no raw materials, no machinery, no meetings. Again, what do these DOOOOOOO???? Please educate me! I have worked in Photoshop. from home, for years so I well understand that SOME skills can be well home based and results transferred to clients. Educate me!!

[@_roj]

@paulbroderick8438 Code? Design? Edit? Engineer? Architect? Sales? Marketing? Any work that can mostly be done using a computer? Any work at doesn't involve being dependent on thousands of dollars worth of machinery? You can't be a machinist and work from home. But there are 100s of jobs that can mostly be distributed-first. Including tech and programming, which is the kind of company the speaker runs!

[@magdasroka997]

[@BoreikoLanguageSchool]

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[@welshhibby]

I hate working from home.....home is home and work is work it’s not healthy blurring the lines

[@DominicMatthews]

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[@rw3452]

I wonder if the stats on the 74 thumbs down are of an older generation or people with a controlling character?

[@pth6060]

The thumbs-down ARA people that have experience rather than the Young Generation that have ideals

[@StefTechSurfer]

COVID-proof video.

[@klaas6681]

If I learned one thing over the past years: remote or distributed working is extremely overrated.

[@simplepycodes]

No this is total BS. Home should be home and work should be done in work environment.

[@CarlosHernandez.RentaHouse]

buuuhuuu

[@dirtychinchilla]

He seems nice

[@_roj]

@dirtychinchilla THIS DID NOT AGE WELL