Posted on 08/29/2024 11:24:08 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I’m more productive in bed than when I get up. So they need to take that into consideration.
Good one.
This is from those who don't want to go back to the pre-Covid normality.
I never worked from home, and boy, have I seen the change in people who never had a problem with coming into the office for decades, some who suddenly flip out and quit because they had to come back in to the office for a couple days a week, others who just piss and moan all day about how they should be working from home, etc.
The productivity has declined, camaraderie has taken a significant hit, collaboration is nowhere near optimal.
Sure, a few jobs may actually benefit from “work at home”, but for the most part, it's not a good thing for the business in the long run, IMO.
what are they going to stay, nah, I want to drive an hour to work so that I can talk to people I don't like and sit in worthless meetings rather than stay at home, get my work done in half the time and the other half to do what I want.
I have to go into work.
We have a daily stand up.
Everybody uses Webex from their desk.
We all sit together and there are conference rooms available.
Now the group is splintering and working in different areas of the building so they don’t have to sit by coworkers and can get more done.
There are no conference room meetings.
Mandatory in office days stupid beyond all belief.
It’s official!
Because Ellen Jennings-Trace says so.
Never trust a woman with 2 last names.
Except Fawcett-Majors
Thats not actually what the folks who run these giant companies say….. and from my own management experience , there is no real way to hold folks accountable at home. You need to trust them and knowing plenty of people who still work from home… theyre gaming the system. Doing the bare minimum to get the check. Honestly the author must be getting told to get back to the office.
People who are honest with themselves know they aren’t as productive at home. The ones who say they work harder and better at home are either deceiving themselves so they can deceive you, or just consciously deceiving you.
It’s much better for 70 million people to commute daily in gridlock traffic...Force them to pay and spend 2 hours per day dead time, driving back and forth, wasting 750 hours of their lives per year commuting!
So, we just discount all the productivity of farmers, truck drivers, construction workers, electricity, water supply & natural gas workers, pilots, bus drivers, restaurant workers, retail shop employees, etc.
Naive, ignorant “reporters”!
It may be if you fly a keyboard all day.
I’ve done the commute thing for 40 years in the tech industry. I’ve logged well over a million miles commuting.
That said, I’m done with it. I’ve worked remotely since 2020 and I will never go back. My life is now far more flexible and I am way more productive. The bets part is no office politics and drama.
-SB
Oh jeez, what a total crock.
It’s much better for 70 million people to commute daily in gridlock traffic...Force them to pay and spend 2 hours per day dead time, driving back and forth, wasting 750 hours of their lives per year commuting!
If you add up with these people pay for fuel, car repairs, tires, insurance, wardrobes, baby sitters etc, they’d quickly figure out why they’re not making any money...
If these companies had to pay for all that, everyone who could, would be working out of the home. It would happen over night.
“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” Churchill or Orwell or Kipling - take your pick.
Just be thankful that all of our “rough men” DO stand watch in the night, rather than “phoning it in to the office”.
The push to get people back into the office is about corporate real estate, not about productivity.
I’m in IT and the work from home is the way to go. We have a better pool of new candidates to hire when needed.
No one to bother you popping in your cube to ask stupid questions like “did you see the game last night?”.
I know all of my coworkers get a lot more done ... mainly because the WFH means your available 24/7 ... which is the only thing that is a downside. We all work like 6am to 8+pm all week.
I definitely do not miss the 1 3/4 to 2 hour commute each way every day.
Plus “I’m saving the planet!” By not putting 700 miles a week on my car!
Managers who want everybody back in the office are from the old school “if they ain’t under my thumb they ain’t working” Neanderthal days.
Now this is just for office workers you see. Not manufacturing or in person service.
The WFH thing gave my company a chance to major downsize the building we were in, to just a small office complex where we just occupy a few offices.
I’m trying to get a remote worker to fix the compressor on my freezer. S/he can stay at my house one night if that makes it convenient. Same with my wife’s SUV. It will be kind of hard to drive it into a remote worker’s house, but I’m willing to try as long as they also fix the body damage and paint after we get it inside.
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