If set up properly, experts and advocates say, remote work has many benefits:Less time on the road. Office commuters make up only about 18 percent of all traffic, he said. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office estimated it saved more than $38 million in 2015 by not using as much office space, according to a Harvard Business School working paper from November. A 2005 study found that job satisfaction increased with each additional hour people spent working remotely. But it stopped increasing beyond 15 hours worked remotely.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2020 15:30 UTC