Posted on 07/07/2022 7:01:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The purpose of the workplace is not to torture as many people as possible so they all are “equal”.
The definition of someone who believes it is = bad boss.
“Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment.....Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment.....Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment....Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment......”
Add in the savings of the cost of lunch, clothes, office pools, etc.
Not having to sit through interminable drones and their powerpoints (as well as the baby & bridal showers you don’t have to fund & endure :)
At this point, forcing people to go back into the office when WFH is viable amounts to a pay cut.
IT worker. No lapse in productivity as all my/my companies products are rollout time based as we must deal with state and federal imposed mandates.
My office is now my Dining room table as it’s the only place for my laptop and 2 other monitors. Plus everything else I need for doing my job.
In the meantime I’m going Galt/retired from the work force 8/1/22:-)
Same with almost all “essential” jobs they declared. Know someone working at the VA, did not get to go home ever, now with bad pay, worse benefits after 17 years, if he does not take the shot, hes fired. FJB
And I’m sure work it is:-)
Never let anyone tell you it aint:-)
This. And don't forget that Laquisha is incapable of conducting a conversation at less than 75 decibels ... 80 if you include the raucous laughter.
I once chewed out some training people in the row opposite mine about their continuous loud phone conversations. "But it's all work-related!" they bleated. "I can hear you discussing your plans for the weekend," said I, "that's NOT work-related!" [crickets]
Yes!
Of course, for me at least, there are a lot of other factors involved in how to prioritize, but all other things equal, why would I want to leave a quick simple task like setting up a new email account to dangle for a long time when I could just knock it out and know it’s done. It would be inefficient to write up a post-it reminder or an outlook task reminder when that takes half the time it would take to just finish the task itself.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
One of my last assignments before retiring was to define and clarify the employee onboarding process. I ended up literally writing the book on the process, from defining job classifications and roles to streamlining workflow triggers and responsibilities.
I discovered a huge security flaw in the process. Our company used Active Directory to assign privileges, responsibilities, and authorities. One of the individuals assigned to creating new AD accounts (for new employees) discovered that it was easier to clone an existing account and then give the clone account the new user's identification (making it unique) instead of creating the account from scratch.
The only problem is that the sort of person who seeks these sort of lazy shortcuts is the same sort of person who is likely to be sloppy in the execution of tasks. In his haste he allowed new accounts to be assigned privileges they weren't entitled to.
IT Security ended up conducting a company-wide audit (about 5,500 employees) to correctly realign all of these AD objects, adding and subtracting privileges as needed. I created a role classification matrix using templates (instead of human examples) to create new accounts along with protocols defining who does what (HR, Physical Plant Security, IT Security, and AD Administration).
For my reward I was assigned to an entry level position at the Helpdesk unlocking accounts and resetting passwords.
I think you are correct. We are allowed to work remote up to 2 days a week. Unless someone is heavily booked on Zoom for they day, we’re in the office.
Our data analysts started with their two days and are in the office almost everyday as they find it easier to work through projects.
I prefer being there as the two minute office door conversations make my job easier and more productive at the same time. I learn a lot and can share a lot in those moments and that got lost during full time remote.
My group at work now includes a couple engineers from India. Not only from India but still live in India. Who needs an H1B program to employ foreign tech people here in the US? Now they can get engineers and programmers and don’t even have to pay them US wages. If you like to work from home you may end up having to compete globally for your job.
Elon Musk has it absolutely correct, Go Back to the Office or Quit. While some people can work effectively from home, most do not. Productivity and the whole positive impact of working together at an office is lost. Pay at-home workers half their salary if they insist on working from home as that is the likely value of their contribution.
Indeed, not to mention the value of actual personal interaction and conversation.
Fire them and hire Americans to do American work. And those H1Bs, they should have all gone home.
The problem as I see it is not a productivity issue, per se, but a synergistic issue.
An individual worker can claim to be more productive at home, but look a little deeper at what's really going on.
From the article:
I miss the chance to finish household tasks between my meetings...I suspect that many people spread out their workday into smaller increments with personal time scattered throughout. They may be present at a meeting and then disappear for an hour to pick the kids up at school. They may fix dinner for the family and then get back to work at 9:00pm until midnight and say they were more productive at home.
However (at least when I was a coder), there were people who came to me for mentoring, for help with a nasty problem, or just looking for an idea to get started. I might get a call from someone in another part of the world who has a question about a presentation I gave at the last information sharing session. Those people expected me to be present during the core "business hours." If I'm not there, they lose the opportunity to grow, or to be productive themselves when they struggle for longer because I (or someone like me) wasn't there when they needed the support.
That's the synergy that comes from a team all being on the field at the same time, and that disappears when everybody who's working from home thinks that it is their time to schedule for their own personal convenience, "as long as they get their work done."
Everybody goes back to being siloed.
-PJ
My point is that there are jobs with discrete metrics.
If the boss prioritizes those metrics too, then the employee can demonstrate improved performance.
My employer has grown so fast that HR has sold leadership on the idea of hoteling employees in unassigned workspaces instead of leasing more floors or expanding WFH.
I expect that the exodus of younger workers will be biblical. They’re already leaving in droves for companies that support expanded or full-time WFH. Finding qualified candidates to replace them and work in our environment will be next to impossible in this market.
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