WFH | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of WFH in English WFHnoun [ U ] Add to word list Add to word list abbreviation for working from home: used to refer to a person doing their job in their home rather than travelling to an office, etc. in order to do it: WFH may stay even after the pandemic scare fades. Very few people that I know abuse WFH.

• Whether you're a newbie or WFH veteran, here's what you need to do to stay productive during the lockdown.
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Types of employment

• admin
• administrative
• administrative assistant
• administratively
• at the coalface idiom
• job sharing
• jobbing
• jobless
• joblessness
• jobseeker
• professionality
• qualified
• recertify
• redundancy
• redundant
• wet work
• white-collar
• who's who idiom
• wilderness years idiom
• work experience

See more results » WFHverb [ I ] abbreviation for work from home: to do your job in your home rather than travelling to an office, etc. in order to do it: I WFH 5 days a week, saving 4 hrs of commuting a day.

• The flexibility for employees to work from home (WFH) or remotely allows businesses to remain agile and competitive.
• He sent an email to say he was WFH again.

Types of employment

• admin
• administrative
• administrative assistant
• administratively
• at the coalface idiom
• job sharing
• jobbing
• jobless
• joblessness
• jobseeker
• professionality
• qualified
• recertify
• redundancy
• redundant
• wet work
• white-collar
• who's who idiom
• wilderness years idiom
• work experience

See more results » (Definition of WFH from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of WFH

in Chinese (Traditional) 居家辦公（working from home的縮寫）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 居家办公（working from home的缩写）… See more in Spanish forma abreviada de "working from home":, trabajar desde casa, teletrabajo… See more in Portuguese forma abreviada de "working from home":, trabalhar de casa, forma abreviada de "work from home":… See more Need a translator?

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