Is teleworking a good idea?
Microsoft, Amazon, and other large companies have requested their workers telecommute until further notice. Is this the way of the future? Or an annoying inconvenience?
Warren Boeker is a Professor of Management at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. He says that opinion on teleworking is pretty split.
Some find it isolating, and argue that the conversations employees have in the office boost creativity. Others say that call in meetings and online messaging make up for those conversations.
But we'll just have to wait and see what habits stick once businesses are allowed to have employees back in the office. For now, try to keep the boredom at bay, and remember to take a walk every now and then.
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Bill Radke
Host
Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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Sarah Leibovitz
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Sarah joined KUOW in 2019 as senior producer on The Record. She is now Supervising KUOW’s new noon time show, Soundside. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
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