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How badly do tech professionals want to work from home? A new study from Quartz suggests that a strong remote working culture is important to employees from every sector\u2014but especially tech. If you\u2019re a recruiter or employer, offering the opportunity to work from home might prove that can\u2019t-beat perk that will pull a talented tech pro into your company. Quartz<\/a>, in examining U.S. Census data in combination with other sources such as the American Time Use Survey, discovered that roughly 300,000 tech workers didn\u2019t go into an office in 2015. That\u2019s roughly eight percent of the entire programming workforce in the United States. There\u2019s still more evidence that a healthy percentage of tech pros are working from home. In Stack Overflow\u2019s most recent developer survey<\/a>, for example, 11.1 percent of respondents said they work from home full-time. And that\u2019s not all, as the late-night infomercials say: some 9.4 percent of respondents indicated they\u2019re at home less than half the time (i.e., \u201cat least one day each week\u201d), while 31.8 percent apparently never work from home. (Another 35.1 percent report they\u2019re working from home \u201ca few days each month.\u201d) Moreover, most tech pros want to work from home. \u201cWhen we asked respondents what they valued most when considering a new job,\u201d Stack Overflow stated, \u201c53.3% said remote options were a top priority.\u201d As perks go, remote work beat out vacation time, health benefits, \u201cexpected work hours\u201d and better equipment. Dice\u2019s Salary Survey<\/a> underscores these findings. When asked about the most important benefit an employer offered them in 2016, 14 percent of respondents said the ability to telecommute was tops. That was only 4 percent below \u201cincreased compensation,\u201d and 2 percent above \u201cmore interesting or challenging work.\u201d But what about productivity? Quartz reports that most developers say they do an average of six hours of work per day when at home. In the office: just over three hours. Stack Overflow reports that developers working from home are more satisfied with their jobs, too. The takeaway: people want<\/em> to work from home, they like<\/em> to work from home, and employers are starting to realize this. It\u2019s a sought-after perk for a large number of developers, and there\u2019s no indication the trend will reverse. If you\u2019re on the hunt for tech talent, take note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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