Posted on 08/06/2021 11:47:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Before the pandemic, many associates at professional service firms — e.g., consulting, financial, legal and accounting — spent long hours in the office. They often tried to maximize face time by staying late at their desks to impress their boss. During the pandemic, however, these associates worked from home. The practice of face time broke down since the boss could not see the associates slaving in their offices late at night. Yet, foreshadowing the future, the work at these firms was done well at home.
To continue to attract top talent and improve productivity, professional service firms must shift away from their traditional emphasis on counting hours to a focus on actual results. Although hours are easy to measure, they are a poor proxy for productivity in a knowledge-based organization. Who cares about the number of hours you worked if your product is bad — a boring presentation or a weak analysis? And if your presentation or analysis is excellent, will you be criticized because you did not spend a lot of hours generating the product?
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Only FIVE are doing it out of 80 employees.
Its a huge expense to commute and it wastes time.
“Only FIVE are doing it out of 80 employees.”
If I worked there I would come in Tues-Thurs and work at home Mon & Fri.
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I was working remote prior to COVID, but in some ways, I did miss the commute. For me, the drive home was an opportunity to decompress from rough days, and psychologically helped me maintain distance between my work and home life.
“Its a huge expense to commute and it wastes time.”
For some people you’re right. For others it can be far less distracting to work in the office and the commute is worth the effort and expense.
Shift from “by the hour” to “by the task”.
A good thing.
Most people could truly “work” in about 20 hrs/wk.
I call it my "semi-retirement" but in actuality, I am at my most productive on the two days I'm at home.
The three days in the middle of the week are consumed with con-calls, which is the least productive use of my time.
Most MBAs and just managers in general are addicted to the clock more than performance. Some people do need 40+ hours to do what some can do in 20. In general, I’d like to do a France and see 30-35 as the typical week. Or by task.
Hasn’t really hurt France any that I can see, but makes life a lot better.
As was I for a while, but I did not miss the commute. The missed trains and ferries and delays and cost all are too much. I can get much more done and can be very flexible at the same time. But I can see how sometimes it is nice to be out of pocket but that is almost impossible now with smartphones.
When you zoom face time a lot of the bad personal chemistry that can make working in person stressful—goes away.
Since my main office is in Manhattan, I do really like the commute. I sit on a train three hours a day. Allows me to plug into some music and get some good book reading done. Like you say, it really allows you to decompress between your work life and personal life. On the way home out of Grand Central, I usually grab a beer or two for the trip home. Metro North doesn’t sell it anymore but they do allow you to drink it on the train.
Threads with people complaining about their jobs being outsourced overseas in 3, 2, 1 . . . .
It is a lot nicer for your mental health on Sunday night when you know you don’t have to get up super early and can just sign on when working from home.
I’m hoping remote work will enable me to leave CA for good. Still waiting for company policy to settle...
“They often tried to maximize face time by staying late at their desks to impress their boss.”
Yeah. Real work.
See the virtue of not having a steel industry? You can do it from home.
My thing is that I love to drive and enjoyment factor has always been a consideration of any car I bought. I could make the drive home as long or short as I wanted to.
I got a friend who his some mid-range hot shot lawyer. He’s on a group text. We tease him about which client he is billing for time he spends texting us.
“Its a huge expense to commute and it wastes time.”
One of our direct descendants has Covid and probably the Delta form. He and his current family are at home in isolation.
His son will be a 3rd year engineering student at a Cal State University this fall, and is working at a paid preceptor-ship for a firm near his home. So he has been doing his work at his parents’ home since his Dad’s diagnosis. Between his computer gear and his Mother’s home office gear, his job is being done at their home.
Basically, he and his boss have found that 95% of his job can be done at home. So when his isolation period is over next week, they will try 4 days /week at his home office and 1 day in their office and a lot of Zoom phone calls.
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