I’m more productive in bed than when I get up. So they need to take that into consideration.
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.
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.
“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 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.
Pencil pushers and key board players could do their job while asleep. ...now the real workers and producers are essential and their very presence is critcal.
I can’t reach the car in my shop from home.
I have people trying to buy used cars remotely, then when they show up they try to back out because “it doesn’t drive like I expected” or “I didn’t see this little dent” (on a 4k car) “I expected this geo metro to be bigger”
needless to say, we don’t sell cars that way any more.
Meanwhile in China, laborers are housed in high-rise living quarters equipped with nets to prevent suicide by jumping.
The operative word in that proposition is “feeling”. As in no objective standard.
(83%) saying they felt more productive in hybrid/remote settings rather than in-office or on site.
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It’s like paying a teenager to take you car to the car wash.