Posted on 08/29/2024 11:24:08 AM PDT by ShadowAce
“A survey from Zoom”
Yeah based on a survey from Zoom. :-)
NOBODY IS SUGGESTING THAT EVERY JOB CAN BE DONE FROM HOME.
No doubt there’s a significant happy factor
People who use Zoom are probably likely to have decided ideas about telework...
Look at the FReeptards upthread with their sloped foreheads lofl.
"OG SAY IN-OFFICE BEST! ME NO UNDERSTAND REMOTE EMPLOYEE MEASUREMENT MODELS. OG CONFUSED BY YOUR SMART WORLD."
My people don't produce, bye bye, there are two more of you waiting to be hired; agile or not, the tell is in the velocity vector v burn rate, and you can measure that velocity right down to an individual snapshot. Daily.
😂😂😂 they surveyed the slackers working at home and they swear they’re more productive at home! Honest!
Got a few guys that we have to occasionally call for technical assistance that are allowed to work from home “when needed”. Every time it’s kids laughing whooping it up, hollering, fighting, dogs barking in the background. Have to repeat what we tell them… Yeah, they’re way more productive. 🙄 They all have their own home offices too supposedly.
My dog was smarter than half of the corporate execs at work.
Lol.
This is not true. My brother just retired as the CEO of a multi-national medical support company. When covid hit, they shut down a 10 story office building in the Houston area, and various other offices around the world and had everyone working online from home.
Since then, they determined that office personnel working from home are measurably less productive. But, the cost savings in not having to support the brick and mortar office structure made up for the loss in productivity. However, the real loser in all of it was the customer. They now have to wait longer for service as a result of the loss in productivity.
I am with you. - “The productivity has declined, camaraderie has taken a significant hit, collaboration is nowhere near optimal.”
At a directors' meeting late in 2023, 11 out of the 12 board members were in favor of sending ultimatums to the staff to force them back.
I was the lone holdout -- and I never liked a work-from-home operating model for a business.
By the end of the meeting, all 12 board members agreed with me.
If you measure productivity it is kinda easy to find the slackers who are working at home.
You warn them to get it together.
If they do not they get fired.
Easy peasy.
Bad managers are the only ones who cannot figure out how to make work at home equal or improve productivity.
Go to the head of the class there, fella!
“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.”
That might fit you, but I participated in a COVID at-home study at a Fortune 50 in late 2021, and we found outside of just two teams out of hundreds of teams that people were FAR MORE productive at home.
“The push to get people back into the office is about corporate real estate, not about productivity.”
Which is why Boeing sold their commercial aircraft division 900,000+ square foot headquarters and send every home in 2021. No need for a massive office. Those that truly need office space for collaboration have it available when needed.
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.
It is if that's where they meet their future spouse instead of becoming a lonely introverted shut-in at home and never learned how to socialize with others.
Uh...what? That's a joke, right?
How long ya think these companies would put up with thousands of wasted hours per year per employee? I'd guess about 1 second...
Well, it seemed to have worked well for Boeing. /s :)
I’m in IT as well.
I’ve seen several of my former coworkers laid off in the last few years due to them not being properly responsive to requests from work for whatever reason.
Those who were bright enough to at least respond when queried are still here, but have to now occasionally come into the downsized office we moved to since we don’t need the same amount of space due to the bulk of our people now working from home.
I’ve seen the results of what has happened and as I stated before, some jobs will do fine with WFH, but most are not enhancing the company’s productivity working from home, but in fact have made matters “worse” for the company as a whole from an overall analysis.
This has only been a thing for a few years, so it’s difficult to tell how it will work out in the long run. For some jobs, it probably makes good sense. For others, it may be a big mistake that doesn’t show itself for a while.
We’ll see.
According to my brother, it's easy to find them. But just working from home supports the mindset that they are "out of sight and out of mind" of the supervisors. As such, a lot of employees engage in idle time working from home when they ordinarily wouldn't if they were in an office environment with a supervisor physically nearby. As such, the supervisors are spending a lot more time micro-managing the workflow of individual employees, instead of managing the overall output of the departments.
It is if that's where they meet their future spouse instead of becoming a lonely introverted shut-in at home and never learned how to socialize with others.
That's it!
These companies need to tell their prospective employees that the work place is a great place to socialize and meet girlfriends, wives and others to have affairs with! And on their job ads, they can post pics of women in bikinis!
I also like the people I worked with in the office for over a decade prior to Covid, and actually miss seeing them daily.
At least we now have many coming back to the office at least one day a week, so that's actually helping somewhat from several perspectives.
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