Posted on 10/11/2024 5:29:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Bolstering the opinions of those C-suite execs who want to see boots on the ground is a new piece of research which has found that hybrid or remote working options are allowing people to slack on the job.
Hybrid employees often praise the flexibility that working from home offers, from being able to pick the kids up from school or daycare, to doing laundry in between meetings. The survey, however, has found that some home workers aren’t giving their all to their jobs.
Nearly half (46 per cent) say they multitask on work calls. Online shopping, social media and cleaning were the main culprits.
The same number said they complete house chores during their working hours. Twenty per cent reported taking naps, 17 percent confessed to watching TV or playing video games, with the same amount revealing that they worked from a different location without telling anyone.
Additionally, for younger workers, remote or hybrid working has left them confused about blurred boundaries between sick time, vacation, and mental health days.
Ultimately though, the act of being in the office simply doesn’t guarantee productivity.
Workplace trends like coffee badging (popping in to swipe your card, have a quick check-in with your team, before going home) and office peacocking (performing your job so you look super-busy) are just as likely to waste workers’ time and diminish their productivity.
What being in the office does guarantee workers is something very important: visibility.
Proximity bias, aka an unconscious tendency where management tends to favor those who they can literally see, is a real phenomenon. If you’re out of sight, you can be out of mind for your boss, and you won’t get access to prime projects, not to mention promotions.
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This is really about cities falling apart now that workers aren’t spending money downtown. Who owns cities??? Democrats.
Those same people loafing at home probably manage to also sit around the office and be unproductive.
Teleworkers can burn in hell. What a scam.
By the way, if you can ‘telework’ full time then somebody from India can do your job, and once the corporation figures that out, your job will be outsourced.
What a f$$$$g scam.
Yup. It’s more about real estate than anything else.
Also, the people in management don’t know how to manage people, manage tasks, or manage projects. They can’t measure performance — they don’t know how. So they have to see people to decide if they like them. If you schmooze well, then you are a “good worker”. If you are at home, then there is just “no way” to tell if you are a good worker. That says a lot about “management”.
Absolutely correct
This story probably is equally pertaining too the federal employees inDC. A million bench of paid dem voters.
I have tried work from home for few days.
It did not worked!
There were just too many disruption.
I never got anything done.
I quickly decided I have to go back to work or get fired!
It’s not much of a difference for them.
Yeah - I work tech where they’re allowing a fully remote policy and less than 10% of the office comes in once a week. (I do 4/5 per week depending if nobody else is coming in) productivity is way off.
Slackers.
Send them all back to the office. MAKE them earn their pay.
Only doing hard-core tech projects, or tech support, is really feasible from home. If you are producing hundreds of lines of quality code a day, or clearing dozens of tech work tickets, your boss knows your are working.
When I WFH in 2012, nobody else from my department was in my building - they were in Columbus, Chicago, and India. Whether I WFH or went into the office, I was basically sitting there with a computer and phone performing tasks. Many of the people who had requests were unaware I was not in the office, and really didn’t care, just as long as I fixed their problem.
Same thought I had.
I worked at a Amazon warehouse for about 2 years. There was one department that was full of liars, they had to lie to keep their jobs. I always said that liars lied to protect the liars which were mostly their friends and their jobs. I’m sure if they were working from home they would lie even more about how much work they were doing.
The survey, however, has found that some home workers aren’t giving their all to their jobs.
Nearly half (46 per cent) say they multitask on work calls. Online shopping, social media and cleaning were the main culprits.
The same number said they complete house chores during their working hours. Twenty per cent reported taking naps, 17 percent confessed to watching TV or playing video games, with the same amount revealing that they worked from a different location without telling anyone.
This is THE one and only reason I would ever advise someone who has the option to work remotely to work in your company office instead.
In my days in corporate management, the only staff who could get away with working remotely were senior technical experts who worked independently and traveled frequently anyway.
I run a custom printing and embroidery shop.
Most of my employees work on equipment we have at the shop.
The few that do paperwork have, on occasion, asked to work from home. Mostly data entry.
I went to the expense of setting up a secure way to do this.
It became apparent that they got about half of the work done at home as they did in the office in the same amount of time.
Experiment over.
I never wanted to work from home, and fortunately my job required that I be on-site for a good part of practically every day anyway, so it was never an issue. To me, home was where you went to be away from work.
There were a few people who worked from home back then (before I retired in mid-2020), doing strictly computer stuff. Some were productive, some were slackers, and it was pretty easy to tell who was which. There were also one or two whose work took over their home life.
I work from home. I love it. My production is great. My patients love it.
Helpful explanation, sounds true/plausible.
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