Some people work best from home. Others don’t work at all. Even some good workers who are forced to work at home, see the vacuuming, or the child that needs tending. And they put work second to home. If they were at work they would be good workers.
But companies are going to want to downsize a bit soon. It may be just moving out the non-productive workers. They will ask people to comeback to work, and those who don’t are the first to be chopped. Its much easier to get rid of someone you never see.
I had a staff with 25% working from home for 30 years. As long as I had a good group in the office I was fine. The people at home were often not in the same city. And I would force the locals to come in one day a week. I would force those who worked in other cities to fly in once a quarter for a week. People who weren’t productive from home were quickly fired. New employees would always start out in the office. I only let my best work from home. Normally it was a choice between losing them or letting them work from home. I definitely considered both ways. I needed to keep a majority in the office. I would say that people who work from home, tend to be loyal. They like their arrangement. But sometimes you have people working for you and someone else at the same time. You have to watch that.
Disagree. These are the same folks goofing off at work.
I’m currently between jobs, but in my next job, I would not have a problem spending up to a few months in the office for starters, wherever in the country the company might be, and then coming in from time to time. It’s actually unfair, IMO, not to give the other people a chance to meet you face to face and get you up to speed, while you get the lay of the land, as they say. As long as in the end, I’m ultimately working from my house in Pensacola.