I agree.
At least it disburses rush hours.
The silicon chip and all its tele communication applications have made the central business district and huge office towers obsolete and economically non viable. Mandates cannot reverse logical trends. The technology is only going to evolve, improve and accelerate the trend. Big cities are becoming concentrated centers of poor, non productive people with some spot exceptions. The productive people who work or live in those spots are at risk.
We have a ridiculous word or term for everything nowadays that can be easily described in common terms where you don’t have to learn cultural jargon.
As long as the coffee at work is free, I’d do it.
Work at home is great for employees, great for their families and great for the company.
The place you work will require you to do stuff you would rather not for money. This is the agreement.
Keep on acting like a toddler and they will find someone with a more grown up mindset.
Badgers = the workplace version of scofflaws gaming the system.
Don’t like the rules? Quit.
As long as it gets done.
The bigger problem is that managers cannot determine the effective performance of their staff. By this time there should be established metrics. I know in my wife’s case, their working from home has created a more effective “regionalized” team because she is tracked on her production and through constant feedback from the executive team.
My daughter, who works in another hospital system, has no metrics and their management team is flailing to get staff back into the hospital setting (they are both non-clinical.)
Employees will always do what is “best” for them. Expecting them to do what is measurably correct for the company is some sort of pipe dream.
Management training these days seems to be a pretty scarce item.
What’s the average commute? 30 minutes? 45?
Who wants to go to the trouble of showering, shaving/putting on makeup, dressing, and driving through horrendous rush-hour traffic to show up for a few minutes, all to game the system? Then turn around a half-hour later and battle the traffic to get back home. That sounds awful.
Sounds like these are experts at cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
I bought beans from different roasters all along the way in Whitefish, Waterton, Lethbridge, Claresholm, Calgary, Canmore, Banff, Lake Louise and Radium Hot Springs. Coffee beans and baseball caps are my travel souvenirs. My freezer is now full of coffee beans!
If your working from home there’s an Artificial Intelligence program being under utilized. Even George Jetson with his “Had to push 3 buttons today” works harder.
What I have discovered about my wife working from home for the past 5 years.
- She’s at her desk before she would be if she was commuting.
- She’s saved a lot of money on gas, parking, mileage.
- She’s answering calls and working while she would be commuting home.
- Her being marked available for extended hours, even if she’s not doing any work, shows up incredibly favorably for reviews.
- Taking a laptop on cruises (Including our honeymoon.) and doing 20 minutes a day of email management likely made her never considered for a force reduction.
In all seriousness you take out the petty nature of snippy women, office politics and the like I see no reason for many aspects of corporate life to go back to the normal of yesteryear.
Paying for unneeded space lowers profits, which lowers the chance for raises and adds to the chance of financial problems. If employees had part-ownership of companies and their pay went up or down with profits (like the bosses’ pay does) they would do less to harm their own company. Employees and Bosses being rivals is the dumbest thing imaginable but it is very common.
I agree.
Of course people are doing this. They’ve been doing it for a while since companies tried to start forcing people back to the office after 2-3 years of working from home. People hate going into the office and they recognize that for many jobs its completely unnecessary - they can do their jobs just as well if not better at home.
What people often do is come in for the morning, then go out for lunch and go home. That way they've been in the office and had face time if they need to do that, but they can still get home for half the day to take care of whatever personal things they need to or walk the dogs or whatever. They also get to avoid the evening rush hour that way. When people say "Coffee badging" what they often mean is not simply going in and leaving 5 minutes later but leaving after an hour or two or after the morning at lunchtime.
I just put eyedrops in, so I read it as “coffee bagging.”
I was afraid to make any connections with its cousin “tea.”