In a digital age, why not eliminate the unnecessary distractions and time wasters of a traditional office? In a national CareerBuilder survey conducted in 2016, around 2,000 hiring managers and 3,000 private sector U. S. workers listed productivity killers.
Several distractions mentioned could easily be eliminated simply by working remote:
- 39 percent office gossip
- 27 percent coworkers stopping by
- 24 percent meetings
- 20 percent noisy coworkers
- 9 percent sitting in a cubicle