>>Any CEO who has had employees working from home productively for the last 30 months would be a fool to force them back to the office.
Problem is, most people who work from home claim their productivity is higher, and most people that are responsible for managing people that work at home know that isn’t even close to true. In my estimation, about 15-20% of people can be trusted to work hard from home.
Any competent manager would know this well. One problem with this is that the metrics for measuring productivity often don't make any sense at all.
I have one project where working at home is a benefit. It’s an annual 3 week thing that requires extra hours and I can’t afford excessive face to face meetings.
Other than that, I don’t see the point at being at home. A lot of work gets done based on two minute by-the-way conversations that are hard to do over Zoom.
I also have fun at my work place. We are a people industry and I enjoy many of my coworkers. I can only stay in my apartment staring at my computer and being in camera based meetings so much.
Not always. Our daughter works for one of the largest commercial insurance and reinsurance companies in the US. Their team (6 teams, about 40 people) productivity is up over 20% across the board. And company profits are way up because they were able to cut back their office space by about half.
They will occasionally go into the office for a few hours, or believe it or not, when they want to get together to celebrate someone's birthday. It's up to them.
“In my estimation, about 15-20% of people can be trusted to work hard from home.”
Stupid managers are unable to figure out how to manage and motivate remote workers.
Smart managers get it done.
If your statement is true then that means that most managers are stupid.
That is the company’s problem—they need to get new managers.