Disagree. These are the same folks goofing off at work.
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.
Disagree. These are the same folks goofing off at work.
I had one women who watched her kids for about 5 hours a day. The kids went to morning daycare or school. She was only intermittently available to work. We asked questions and things like that. But when her husband came home from work, she had dinner. left him with the kids. And she gave us a solid five hours of great work. She was quite productive. She was a software tester and product manager. I think she was more productive at home because she could test and write up bugs without interruptions.
Some people work well when work is in their face all the time. They go home, and work from there and because work is no longer in their face, they don’t do it. They do house work instead. If your the type of person who needs lots of uninterrupted quiet time to get something done, it can be done very well at home, if family knows not to interrupt. But if your the type who is always putting out fires, answering questions and going to meetings or you require a team to keep you motivated, you will likely fail when you get separated from clients or co-workers.
It all depends on how you work best. How your family respects your work time, and of course, what your job is. I hate managers working from home. Often their employees suffer as a result that their manager isn’t always there. Help desk, reception, HR are also bad at home jobs. And of course anything that requires real paper forms or some physical client contact like a nurse. Some jobs can be work from home as long as someone else is working in the office. A nurse or doctor can handle calls when the office is closed as long as there is a nurse or doctor who is actually in the office during office hours.
But other jobs, like testing, documentation, some product management and of course programming can be done at home quite easily. A women who lives across the street from me is a insurance claims adjuster. She works from home. And I think she is far more productive. She sends her kid to daycare. And spends a solid 8 hours in front of her computer . She says she gets about 50% more done at home because there is nobody chatting her up. And she has made her work environment exactly perfect with no need to set up or close down every day. Her coffee is her favorite. Her lunch and drinks are exactly what she wants. The whole set up is conducive to getting a lot of work done. And if her child is sick, she can easily handle it without taking the day off.