I BET IT BECOMES A NET GAIN AS TECH GLITCHES AND HURDLES GET IRONED OUT: Working from home: Average productivity loss of remote work is 1%. “A report from research firm Valoir found that the abrupt move to working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has had only had a 1 percent reduction on work productivity. And more than 40 percent of workers would prefer to work remotely full time in the future.”