Working from home can be a challenge in itself: no office chair, no
canteen, no colleagues to chat with over coffee. But with the
coronavirus here to stay for the foreseeable future, millions of people
around the world have gotten used to sitting at the kitchen table just
like Merguet to work on spreadsheets or take conference calls. But
without a fast and reliable connection, slow downloads, choppy audio or
video calls that keep freezing up can make life difficult for
telecommuters.
Merguet isn't the only one who has had to wind
down data-intensive tasks. Even in well-off countries like Germany,
internet problems are common. DW used open-source data from M-Lab
to compare the speed of internet connections around the globe. M-Lab
collects data from many millions of speed tests that users perform every
month.
For the complete report go to:
Berlin, Lagos, Budapest: How fast is your internet? | World| Breaking news and perspectives from around the globe | DW | 09.10.2020
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The Netherlands: What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work - by Katie Bishop
If you’ve been balancing your laptop on a precarious stack of cookbooks,
or lamented VPN speed from your kitchen table, you’re not alone. Ever
since restrictions were put in place to slow the spread of Covid-19,
companies have been scrambling to enable colleagues to work from home.
As we adapt to the much-cited ‘new normal’, some experts are predicting that remote work might be here to stay. This is leaving many nervously eyeing up our makeshift home desk set-ups, and wondering how on earth we can handle the backache.
But for some, remote working is just another day at the office .Thousands of workers in the Netherlands benefit from the country’s astonishingly flexible work culture. While the percentage of employed persons usually working remotely before the coronavirus outbreaklingered at around 4.7% in the UK, and 3.6% in the US, 14.1% of the Netherland’s workforce reports usually working away from the office. The Netherlands has long led the global shift toward remote work, with only Finland
catching up in recent years while other countries lag behind.
“When the pandemic started, I suddenly found myself playing the part of a remote-work coach for my wife and our neighbours,” says Yvo van Doorn, an Amsterdam-based engineer. “I was suddenly answering questions about home networks and video conferencing. It was eye-opening because I’d taken these things for granted.”
Read more at:
What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work - BBC Worklife
As we adapt to the much-cited ‘new normal’, some experts are predicting that remote work might be here to stay. This is leaving many nervously eyeing up our makeshift home desk set-ups, and wondering how on earth we can handle the backache.
But for some, remote working is just another day at the office .Thousands of workers in the Netherlands benefit from the country’s astonishingly flexible work culture. While the percentage of employed persons usually working remotely before the coronavirus outbreaklingered at around 4.7% in the UK, and 3.6% in the US, 14.1% of the Netherland’s workforce reports usually working away from the office. The Netherlands has long led the global shift toward remote work, with only Finland
catching up in recent years while other countries lag behind.
“When the pandemic started, I suddenly found myself playing the part of a remote-work coach for my wife and our neighbours,” says Yvo van Doorn, an Amsterdam-based engineer. “I was suddenly answering questions about home networks and video conferencing. It was eye-opening because I’d taken these things for granted.”
Read more at:
What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work - BBC Worklife
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