Survey Shows the Top Benefits of Working from Home

Technology, changing attitudes, and heavy competition for workers have made working from home more common. It's something many employees want to do, and more and more employers are either seeing the benefits or recognizing that they have to offer telecommuting as an option to attract top-tier employees.

For many who work from home (or those who would like to), not having a commute is a top benefit. In fact, 25% of respondents to a survey conducted for Airtasker, a gig economy jobs platform, admitted they had quit a job at some point in their career due to the commute.

Not having to get into a car or onto public transportation is a powerful incentive for people considering work-from-home jobs. But the lack of a commute is not the only benefit people who work from home cited.

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Source Fool.com