IBM 402 control panel wiring. This board was labeled "profit & loss summary."
Posted on 07/07/2022 7:01:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I noticed the shoes first. That I was wearing them. Real shoes, the leather kind, with laces. After a year and a half, I was finally returning to the office, and that meant giving up the puffer slippers and slides that had sustained me for so long. Real shoes, I quickly remembered, are terrible. Likewise pants. Likewise getting to work, and being at work. Whew.
That was summer 2021. I’ve since acclimated to the office once again: I don the uniform; I make the commute; I pour the coffee; I do my job; and then I go back home. There are costs to this arrangement, clearly. I lose some time—time I could spend working!—transporting myself, in shoes and pants, from one building to another. I miss the chance to finish household tasks between my meetings, or fix myself a healthy and affordable lunch. As a university professor and administrator, I have more flexibility than most professionals, and I’m not required to go in each and every day. But even so, I have less control over each hour of my life than I used to—a fact that could very well be making me less productive overall. Indeed, it’s possible, or even likely, that my employer—and yours—could help their workers and the bottom line, simply by allowing us to work from home or come in on a hybrid plan. Remote, flexible employment might be a win for everyone.
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Virtual teams that are successful create an informal set of rules that work for them.
When I was collaborating closely with others they would often send me an instant message and just say “will be off line for a half hour”.
The bosses had no need to know—and of course they would do the same for me.
If we needed several folks on a call we scheduled it by instant message—could be five minutes later or two hours later.
Collaboration was never a problem for us.
My wife’s boss told her she could work from home whenever she wanted, her productivity remained as constant and in some cases better working from home during covid. They went back to the office in 2021 and at times she would work from home during bad weather situations. When gas prices spiked she was allowed to work from home three days a week.
This is all coming to the end as her boss has taken another job and they are kicking her upstairs to his position looks like.
Nailed it!
IBM 402 control panel wiring. This board was labeled "profit & loss summary."
During covid, my division lost half of our seating due to reconfiguration and construction.
Now the boss wants us all at work and cannot understand that HE APPROVED the reduction in seats/desk space.
Excellent analysis, PJT!
Regards,
The elephant in the room is that the banks are sitting on probably trillions in mortgages for office buildings and the mortgage holders need to lease the space to pay the banks.
Who would want to pay full boat for space that people only use maybe some of the time and not all the time?
This is why a hybrid or full wfh will not be considered for many who could otherwise do so
im just a few months behind you on that and I won’t even consider any job that requires a regular commute ( I do travel several days a month) or other time wasting bs
That said, if I don’t perform I’ll get booted quickly so...
I WFH, but it's shift work, so I can't divvy it up throughout the day just so I can go to the grocery store. I'm staying at home for each 12-hour shift unless the boss explicitly gives me permission to go do something.
And I do it, get it done and am good at it. Dunno why some people aren't appreciative enough to do a good job WFH.
I think it's discipline rather that appreciation of having a job and taking personal pride in their work.
I'm not making a blanket statement, but I think if one is in a family with a stay-at-home spouse, the pressure to share the chores increases, the need to mow the lawn is always there, the honey-do list grows, the desire to do it now and save the weekend for play, etc.
For the single, solitary worker, perhaps the impact isn't so extreme, except for the loss of in-person social contact with others, which improves manners, interpersonal skills, civility, one's attire in public, etc.
-PJ
It can't be done with five guys standing around with shovels either........
Some of us do know how to code. And do other engineering and/or technical tasks. I work at home at least 3 days a week. I have a lab in my barn (very rural Alabama) you’d think was from a mad-scientist movie. I love it.
I’ve been fortunate enough in my life to have never worked in any office.
Which is a plus since I’m kind of a jerk...
The boss should be the one capturing metrics. If the trust and reputation is there, the worker will not need to prove anything. If it’s not, then that person shouldn’t be remote.
Its not doomed.
But if it’s what you want, you’d better be worth it.
Five days per week WFH software engineer here. It’s quite nice and not too different from when we were all in the office. The primary means of communication in both situations was chat anyway. That was true when folks were sitting right next to each other.
The business folks miss the face-to-face time the most since influence is a bigger part of their jobs.
In my experience, if you’re the employee asking for something, you better have the data to make your case.
Agree 100% with that statement.
If you’re already de facto remote and the issue is whether to continue that status, then the onus is on the manager. That’s what I was referring to.
If I had a wife, I’d tell her, “Honey, I’ll mow the lawn (clean the gutters, whatever) AFTER my shift ends.”
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