Surprised to see the Daily Mail report this, I thought they were firmly on the side of herding everyone back to offices!
I think most of us who have been working from home know how much more productive it can be. The only naysayers seem to be shit managers – either scared they’ve been shown to be irrelevant or have realised they simply don’t know what their staff are doing – and those who can’t do their jobs from home who are suffering from petty jealousy.
Ministers will be seething at this. Expect the civil service to be forced back in anyway because that’s the only people they can do it to. Expect to see the civil service haemorrhage staff as well.
Just **imagine** how much higher productivity will be when they’re all forced back into the office!
Huh, mine’s dropped by like 90%. I’m just glad no one’s noticed yet.
How to reduce carbon footprint and contribute to environmental targets. I wonder how much they could be reduced by if wfh was even three out of five days a week.
Managers will disagree in many cases, thinking productivity can only be achieved in an office, Monday to Friday, 9-5 and while wearing a suit. Some managers have been great but others are stuck in the 1980s and believe WFH is a fad and will fade away in another year or two. Those will be the managers who struggle to recruit and will not understand why people do not want to work in an office full time.
Higher productivity and higher pay to match! Oh wait.
I wonder how much of this output is based off employees working longer b/c of WFH?
Got to get everyone back on the commute or Pret will tank.
I haven’t experienced WFH yet but I’d be worried about privacy and the blurring of the boundaries between home and work. I also don’t want to feel like my coworkers are invading my home and that I’m invading their personal space too.
Short term productivity might be up maybe in some sectors, but long term people losing the office environment and all the collective benefits that brings with it from a collaboration and learning point of view will be the downfall for lots of industry sectors I can see it.
And the interaction point of view, we are going to have people joining the workforce and then working for X time who then change jobs and have to work in an office environment who have no Fing clue how the work environment actually works. I know I can do more real work talking to people while making a cup of tea than in a 30min teams call with the same people.
If we go back to fully in the office 9-5, that’s when I start looking for another job.
WFH works for me and I really like it. Every time I’ve gone into the office, I barely got any work done because I was constantly being pulled away by my team for this or that, or dragged into a meeting where I can’t just put myself on mute while I do something else.
I didn’t realise how frequent it all was. I found myself far less productive in the office despite my naps and the way I piss about at home. I get everything done within 3-4 hours at home and just spend the rest of the time doing whatever I want, but in the office I often found myself working late.
I have been working from home for about 9 years now, Initially productivity wasn’t really any better but as time went on and I got more disciplined etc I found my productivity went much higher. I would say most days it is more than double what I can achieve in the office.
If a manager can’t trust their employees to deliver whatever output they have to at home, why do they expect it be any different if they were in an office?
My job is very hands on and requires the facilities of my workplace, so my productivity hit like 10% when I was WFH
I’d love to know the numbers on how many people are back to February 2020 patterns. From freinds and family I don’t know anyone who is fully back and if I go past big offices they all look empty…
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Surprised to see the Daily Mail report this, I thought they were firmly on the side of herding everyone back to offices!
I think most of us who have been working from home know how much more productive it can be. The only naysayers seem to be shit managers – either scared they’ve been shown to be irrelevant or have realised they simply don’t know what their staff are doing – and those who can’t do their jobs from home who are suffering from petty jealousy.
Ministers will be seething at this. Expect the civil service to be forced back in anyway because that’s the only people they can do it to. Expect to see the civil service haemorrhage staff as well.
Just **imagine** how much higher productivity will be when they’re all forced back into the office!
Huh, mine’s dropped by like 90%. I’m just glad no one’s noticed yet.
How to reduce carbon footprint and contribute to environmental targets. I wonder how much they could be reduced by if wfh was even three out of five days a week.
Managers will disagree in many cases, thinking productivity can only be achieved in an office, Monday to Friday, 9-5 and while wearing a suit. Some managers have been great but others are stuck in the 1980s and believe WFH is a fad and will fade away in another year or two. Those will be the managers who struggle to recruit and will not understand why people do not want to work in an office full time.
Higher productivity and higher pay to match! Oh wait.
I wonder how much of this output is based off employees working longer b/c of WFH?
Got to get everyone back on the commute or Pret will tank.
I haven’t experienced WFH yet but I’d be worried about privacy and the blurring of the boundaries between home and work. I also don’t want to feel like my coworkers are invading my home and that I’m invading their personal space too.
Short term productivity might be up maybe in some sectors, but long term people losing the office environment and all the collective benefits that brings with it from a collaboration and learning point of view will be the downfall for lots of industry sectors I can see it.
And the interaction point of view, we are going to have people joining the workforce and then working for X time who then change jobs and have to work in an office environment who have no Fing clue how the work environment actually works. I know I can do more real work talking to people while making a cup of tea than in a 30min teams call with the same people.
If we go back to fully in the office 9-5, that’s when I start looking for another job.
WFH works for me and I really like it. Every time I’ve gone into the office, I barely got any work done because I was constantly being pulled away by my team for this or that, or dragged into a meeting where I can’t just put myself on mute while I do something else.
I didn’t realise how frequent it all was. I found myself far less productive in the office despite my naps and the way I piss about at home. I get everything done within 3-4 hours at home and just spend the rest of the time doing whatever I want, but in the office I often found myself working late.
I have been working from home for about 9 years now, Initially productivity wasn’t really any better but as time went on and I got more disciplined etc I found my productivity went much higher. I would say most days it is more than double what I can achieve in the office.
If a manager can’t trust their employees to deliver whatever output they have to at home, why do they expect it be any different if they were in an office?
My job is very hands on and requires the facilities of my workplace, so my productivity hit like 10% when I was WFH
I’d love to know the numbers on how many people are back to February 2020 patterns. From freinds and family I don’t know anyone who is fully back and if I go past big offices they all look empty…