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 made a lot of sense for me to commute into the local office so I could log into the office computer and talk to my boss three states away and my coworkers spread all over the country...while trying to ignore LaQuisha screaming into her phone three cubicles away....
Not!
“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.
I, personally, cannot work from home.
There are just too many disruptions.
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The least productive place is the office, between useless conversations, drive-bys where someone swings by your desk to drop off a hot mess, and where conversations are so stilted as to avoiding offending anyone.
There is no such thing as back to the office for people who were never there. We have people from four states away who run circle around the locals. We have process that previously took weeks that can now be turned in 2-3 days.
We have meetings back to back that previously would need to be scheduled on separate days due to travel, or to avoid having different vendors run into each other during negotiations.
Those who are going back into the office log in to Microsoft Teams and have meetings all day with people who aren't in the office. That's nothing but a waste of time and effort.
I will say that I worked more at home. I started at 6:30AM and would work anywhere from 5-6PM. But I took breaks in between. My employer liked the greater availability.