[z3n]

Most people are good at self-motivating. I wouldn’t call them rare exceptions, but I do believe they are a minority. The proper place for most employees is the work place, away from the distractions of home

[z3n]

Ugh! Most people are NOT good at self motivating. /correction

[Tell It Right]

Would you say it helps to be motivated to work from home of the nature of your work sometimes requires it anyway? In the IT profession we were already used to working after hours or weekends to repair/upgrade systems when the office is closed. It's often best to do that kind of work from home.

Then when covid made us all work from home every day it was already second nature to do so.

[qwerty1234]

>>Most people are good at self-motivating. I wouldn’t call them rare exceptions, but I do believe they are a minority. The proper place for most employees is the work place, away from the distractions of home

I agree - I have been a WFH for over 30 years (as a freelancer / consultant) - most of the people that I know that were WFH *before* covid as just as productive (or more productive) at home - almost all of the people who became WFH just since covid have failed miserably at getting their work done without supervision, and I have had to get many of them fired.

I see almost all employees that were only WFH from covid being forced back into the office - the lower productivity is pretty clear to everyone, and backed up by a lot of studies and articles I have read.

[Afterguard]

“Most people are good at self-motivating.”

You’re probably right. I was not so much. Been retired now for seven years but up until retirement i simply couldn’t bring myself to work from home. I would go to the office at 0600 and not leave until 6:00pm earliest, often later if there was still work to be done. If something came up after hours I’d go to th office to take care of it. I don’t think i would have fared well in today’s work environment.