{"id":5931,"date":"2021-05-25T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:10:12","slug":"flexibility-in-the-office-is-essential-for-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/flexibility-in-the-office-is-essential-for-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility In The Office Is Essential For Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott spoke to analysts and reporters during the &#8220;Knowledge 2021&#8221; event about the importance of flexibility in the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the COVID-19 pandemic displaced employees at home, cloud services, the consumption of IT, and a variety of digital technologies enabled workers to stay productive without having to share an office or workspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research by Salesforce shows that the majority of remote workers are more productive and communicative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A similar study by the Prodoscore Research Council found that labor productivity increased in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McDermott stressed in his speech that 75% of the workforce in 2024 will be millennials or younger and that they want to work in a way that makes them most productive, where flexibility is central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McDermott warned companies that fail to create a flexible, hybrid work model risk damaging their customer experience and losing or not hiring top talent.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/corporate-offices-need-to-change-in-one-major-way-says-servicenow-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flexible working environment will increase the productivity rate in the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}