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William Yeung works long hours in a Hong Kong bank. It is usually out the door before 8:00, and often have conference calls late at night. But how many people in Hong Kong, Yeung program has shifted dramatically between the outbreak of a deadly virus. The banker has been away from home instead of the office for the last three weeks of recording. “I really quite enjoy it,” says TIME. “It gives me a bit ‘of balance.” While he says he did not work less, enabling the absence of a shuttle mostly to see his two sons. He spent his lunch break the five year old son with homework help, and finds his two year old daughter, the newspaper hair is done to get the job the best opportunity for him and his wife. closed with factories and offices in the middle of the epidemic, many companies work remotely test on a large scale for the first time. Worldwide, the crown or COVID-19, as is known, has officially killed more than 1,383 and infected nearly 65,000 people, most of them in China. In an effort to stop the spread of infection, Beijing has extended the lunar new year holiday of 10 days, while it could also convene fairs, festivals and other events where large groups will be deleted. Several cities, including the epicenter of the outbreak, Wuhan, have been put in isolation. If the extended holiday period ended on February 10, he had the virus panic in full swing, and many offices were closed. Society has asked those who can work from home. In Hong Kong workers have been educated at home in the civil service to work, to February 23. Many private companies in the Asian financial center to have followed suit. This change will force thousands of businesses and their employees to work from home as possible under control. Some experts say that this could be a turning point for flexible working in Asia. “Nothing like this has ever happened before,” Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, studying from home that worked, tells TIME. “The crown could work from home in Asia at the end. As a key incentive for the development of” A growing trend in the United States, the number of people working from home constantly increasing. the US Census data showed that more than 5% of Americans at home in 2017 has been working for about 3% in 2000. But flexible working arrangements are generally less common in Asia, in part because of the “mentality that need to be constantly in “office, according to a study by the Boston college center for work and family. The study also found that working from home is through small living spaces in places like Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore complicated. “Traditionally there has been some resistance to remote working in China for the loss of oversight and related charge control,” Jennifer Sabatini Fraone, director of corporate partnerships at the Boston College Center for Work and Family, told TIME. “The staff felt concerned about the separation of work from home and that von, Gesicht the Zeit’mit their managers lack the potential would reduce their chances of promotion,” he says. technology issues, access to technology is the key factor when people find a successful transition to working from home, experts say. replace if teleconferencing sessions and chat applications must remain as a people in touch, if the equipment in the workplace. “Asia has a very high-tech and communications driven society, mobility and accessibility of information, the backbone of the organization is not limiting,” Mark Carrick, regional director for North Asia at the management company the risk Pinkerton tells TIME. Cary Shek, Senior Director of People and Culture at the Hong Kong-based business and travel booking services platform Klook TIME says the company has set up a virtual working environment, before the crisis crown, were already well prepared. With the tools already in place, he says the staff can “stay connected and work seamlessly.” But the virtual environment does not work for everyone. “I do not have a laptop, so I’m just sitting at home for doing nothing,” said one official, who asked that his name be withheld because they would not get in trouble with their employer. “Many people have a paid vacation,” he says. Productivity In general, the researchers found that the working distance tends to increase productivity. Bloom, Stanford professor who took people a 13% increase in performance in the work from home. Because she was concentrating more capable and less likely time for a long lunch or run errands-taking number of hours to complete, also they worked increased. But among those working distance between the outbreak reported some find it hard to concentrate. A law firm employees in Hong Kong-listed the distractions that she does not face the office, “a Netflix account, a one-year-old and loves a cat coming out of the heat from my laptop” computer But she says that the time she appreciates, working from home is to save. “Going to work from my bed to my great living more sleep for me,” he says. One of Klook staff, Vivian Wong, who has a 4-year-old and another child was waiting, she says much safer work from home feels like the number of virus cases ticking upward. “I am happy to spend more time with my daughter,” says Wong. “But this also means that I concentrate more when you go around.” And there are some activities that only a face-to-face are slight. “It’s easier our heads together, or go to a conference room and discuss things in person,” Arthur Kuipers, the creative director of digital branding agency WeCreate tells TIME. For now, the company says makes things work. “It ‘s fine as long as it does not last forever so” Read: How the epidemic Crown Can the global economy back to work Bloom says upend that about 50% of the participants in his work studio home office after nine months he asked again. “Many people, especially young people, single people felt very lonely at home and wanted to come to the office,” he says. the workers of the company, anxious to be among those who return to the office. “It makes me grow interacting Crave”, he says. “I’m ready for everything to be over and back into a routine. I’m sure everyone is.” Other Hong Kong have already work from home, despite all the health risks. “In Hong Kong, we are all pressed for space,” says an employee of a financial institution that there are too many distractions in a small apartment with his wife and dog have been found. Bloom found that older workers to 30 years, especially those who are married with children, tend to be much happier working on your home. Yeung, who is 36, he says that as soon as things return to normal in the city, he hopes to at least equal to the distance, from time to time to work on. “The last three weeks have all been much more family together,” he says. “For me as a father, like from home to work.”
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