You’ll never get near the productivity from work at home workers. People take off, go shopping, go to the beach. Etc There’s no connectivity to others in your work group.
Are you two managers?
“You’ll never get near the productivity from work at home workers. People take off, go shopping, go to the beach. Etc There’s no connectivity to others in your work group.”
Wrong.
https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivity-statistics/
“You’ll never get near the productivity from work at home workers. People take off, go shopping, go to the beach. Etc There’s no connectivity to others in your work group.”
Not a chance. If you pay me what I make now or even a little less to allow me to work from the side of some mountain in Nowhere Alabama where the cost of living is 1/3 what it is in this slum, I’ll work to the bone for ya!
Or, you eliminate all the costs of the "connectivity to others in your work group", mostly meaningless meetings, reviews, sharing of feelings and all that other bull*** so that the ten percent of your workers actually capable of productivity can work in peace.
It's hard work filling up an eight hour day with people pretending to do something useful.
Long ago, in a different life, I was a mailman (no, I did not know John Kasich's father). I was a city carrier, summer sub, not RFD.
That job, done right, takes about 3.5 hours while you are on the clock for 8.5 hours (0.5 is lunch).
Every once in a while, an inspector would come to make sure walking your route took a full five and a half hours. It was called "going out on check".
Making your 2.5 hour route take 5.5 hours is VERY VERY DIFFICULT with a pedometer and an inspector.
But productivity? Fuggedaboutit!
Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - wants to get their mail at 3 PM. If you can hit every house by 11 AM, your customers win, the local diners win, the housewife girlfriends win (or so I've been told), the liquor stores win - the only losers are the little bosses who report to the big bosses that, yes, every route takes exactly 5.5 hours.
"Workgroup connectivity" is a myth. Remote is the future.
I work from home and I don't do any of those things, though I wish I could. But, my job is judged by metrics of a sort and I work on a team. I am always motivated to be at the top so hopefully the one to keep my job when they need to let one of us go.