>>In some cases, it’s not a matter of social awkwardness. In some cases, especially for single parents, it’s about being able to have a job and still being able to parent ...
Which is exactly the problem - I am tired of working with people who have babies screaming in the background - and no one else, but the person you are meeting with, to watch the baby/child. Which tells me, and most managers, people aren’t just working at home - they are taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, running errands etc.
How can anyone claim to be ‘working from home’, when they are watching infants or small children at the same time - the answer is, they are not.
Watching a baby or infant is pretty much a FT job when they are awake - if they are awake, you are not working - lets all stop pretending you are working with a 6 month old in your arms.
This is why the people here claim they can work better from home. 99% of people cannot work better at home.
The real reason is they like to not have to go to work and spend all day away from home.
I get it, but YOU know, that its all a lie. You do NOT work better at home.
Actually, I was talking about people with school age kids not infants. You’re right no one is getting much done if they are raising an infant while trying to work from home.
But having worked in offices at times in my life I can tell you anyone who thinks people in the office work full time are fooling themselves. Between scheduled breaks, lunch, smoking breaks, celebrating birthdays with cake in the breakroom, FBing, rehashing last night’s football game I’d say most people in the office at best realistically work 3-4 out of every 8 they get paid for. Add in the cost to the company of renting office space and I think the work at home thing is a winner for everyone.
I’ve done both and honestly got much more done in my home office without the distractions than I ever got done at the office.