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New Starbucks boss Brian Niccol induced many to spit out their espresso with the information he’ll commute round 1,000 miles<\/a> from his dwelling in California to the corporate\u2019s HQ in Seattle. It\u2019s true that he\u2019ll have the posh of the corporate jet for his journeys to the workplace, which the espresso big says will imply he\u2019s assembly its coverage of exhibiting up for work in particular person at the least three days per week.<\/p>\n However are the arguments about personal jets and company existence lacking the purpose? We must always actually be asking whether or not any employee must be within the workplace three days per week if they’ll carry out the function equally properly from their dwelling. Niccol will work flexibly, with a mix of being within the workplace and dealing from dwelling. In fact, many disagree strongly with this. Funding analyst Dan Coatsworth<\/a> advised the BBC that in his opinion a frontrunner \u201cmust be on the coronary heart of a enterprise, not sitting on the seashore\u201d.<\/p>\n Different enterprise leaders speaking about dwelling or distant working have used phrases like \u201can aberration\u201d<\/a>, \u201clazy gits\u201d<\/a> and \u201cmorally flawed\u201d<\/a>\u201c, whereas Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan<\/a> stated distant working doesn\u2019t work for individuals who need to hustle.<\/p>\n That is “flexibility stigma\u201d<\/a> \u2013 the notion that<\/a> staff working from dwelling are in some way are much less motivated or dedicated, and are much less productive.<\/p>\n Sadly, this bias towards versatile employees is frequent. In a current consultant survey<\/a> of employees throughout Europe and the UK, about one in three respondents felt that versatile working was seen negatively by managers or colleagues or that it broken profession outcomes.<\/p>\n Though we noticed these views decline through the peak of the COVID pandemic<\/a> when homeworking was enforced, they’re coming again as extra managers ask employees to return to the workplace<\/a>, usually citing issues with productiveness or dedication as the primary causes.<\/p>\n However the place do these concepts come from? There may be rising proof<\/a> to counsel that distant employees usually are not solely extra dedicated and dependable to their job, they’re typically extra productive<\/a> than their in-office counterparts.<\/p>\n In my e-book, The Flexibility Paradox<\/a>, I present how versatile employees are likely to work tougher and longer than different employees. In truth, going again to the brand new Starbucks boss, he already has a monitor report of pulling one other franchise, (Chipotle<\/a>), out of disaster \u2013 and is more likely to do the identical for Starbucks, the place gross sales have been down<\/a> for a 12 months or extra.<\/p>\n