Fuck off trying to get us back in you office dwelling fucks.
If you want employees to go to the office then you have to pay a premium.
It’s an employees market right now. Recruiting for office roles is incredibly difficult.
I do about 2 maybe even 3 times the amount of work from home, that I was doing in the office. Fortunately my boss recognises this.
At the end of the day, if you are an employer and you don’t trust your employees enough to work from home and feel you need to keep an eye on them in the office, maybe that’s not the right person for the job.
Then you need to make it clear to the next employee that due to trust concerns, you require them to be in the office 100% of the time.
After all the interview process is where the employee interviews the employer. The overwhelming majority of people who leave, is down to the boss.
What I’ve found really helps my work is the noise, or lack off.
At work, I have a bit of a problem with sensory issues and hate the constant babble of background noise – thanks, open plan! – but at home, I’ve just got the distant noise of birds or BBC Radio 4.
Since I started home working, I’ve always made sure that I treat it like any other work day. I rise about seven, have a good breakfast, freshen up in the bathroom and get dressed. I even make sure to prepare a packed lunch the night before.
I’ve found sticking to that routine – rather than rolling out of bed at ten to nine and working in my pyjamas – has a positive effect.
Have an office for the 1 in 6 weeks you need to see your team, otherwise video chat is fine. Or more likely, remote is actually always fine. I’ve not been in an office since 2020. It’s actually nice.
It will be interesting to see if productivity actually goes DOWN with the return to the office.
I am on the bus reading this.
I would rather be at home with a tea working than enduring this commute.
Though I am back in the office 2 out of 5 days.
So can’t complain, at least I have the option of wandering around town on my lunch break.
I just hope I don’t accidentally fall into Spoons
I’ve been in the office (mostly alone) for the last few years because I can’t do my job from home, it is extremely demotivating having to sit in an empty building all week. I’m thinking about looking for a new role where they’ll actually be some human interaction.
edit: amazing, get downvoted for holding an opinion counter to the hive mind.
JRM work shaming people hahah
I go into the office one or two days a week, depending on when the rest of my team are in. When we are in, we don’t get anywhere near as much work done – it’s all about having a catch up with colleagues. We all get the bulk of our work done when working from home.
Trust and respect is huge when it comes to working from home, or even working effectively as a team in any location. My manager is very much not a micromanager, and he is known for being big on making sure the right people are in the right job and being proactive with fixing problems if something isn’t working. He has had zero issue giving the team the ability to assess the appropriate and correct times to use the office, supplier offices or home working based on work requirements, even before the pandemic happened.
While there is a personal responsibility to get your work done when working from whatever location, some responsibility does lie with the management team if something isn’t happening – managers should remove roadblocks when needed and empower their teams.
My team are spread in 4 different cities and I’m the only one in my location. I go to the office one day a week as a box ticking exercise. It’s quite nice ti get some actual interaction with people in my location but from a business pov it’s pointless me being there. I get less done due to the commute, the noise etc, and I have to sit on teams calls in a busy office.
Since I started working from home, diesel has gone from about 135ppl to 195ppl so, yeah, fuck that noise.
One of the reasons im not kicking off about our low payrises these last few years is letting me WFH full time saves me a fortune. If they wanted me back in the office, I would find another job.
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It’s 80/20 in reality,
Fuck off trying to get us back in you office dwelling fucks.
If you want employees to go to the office then you have to pay a premium.
It’s an employees market right now. Recruiting for office roles is incredibly difficult.
I do about 2 maybe even 3 times the amount of work from home, that I was doing in the office. Fortunately my boss recognises this.
At the end of the day, if you are an employer and you don’t trust your employees enough to work from home and feel you need to keep an eye on them in the office, maybe that’s not the right person for the job.
Then you need to make it clear to the next employee that due to trust concerns, you require them to be in the office 100% of the time.
After all the interview process is where the employee interviews the employer. The overwhelming majority of people who leave, is down to the boss.
What I’ve found really helps my work is the noise, or lack off.
At work, I have a bit of a problem with sensory issues and hate the constant babble of background noise – thanks, open plan! – but at home, I’ve just got the distant noise of birds or BBC Radio 4.
Since I started home working, I’ve always made sure that I treat it like any other work day. I rise about seven, have a good breakfast, freshen up in the bathroom and get dressed. I even make sure to prepare a packed lunch the night before.
I’ve found sticking to that routine – rather than rolling out of bed at ten to nine and working in my pyjamas – has a positive effect.
Have an office for the 1 in 6 weeks you need to see your team, otherwise video chat is fine. Or more likely, remote is actually always fine. I’ve not been in an office since 2020. It’s actually nice.
It will be interesting to see if productivity actually goes DOWN with the return to the office.
I am on the bus reading this.
I would rather be at home with a tea working than enduring this commute.
Though I am back in the office 2 out of 5 days.
So can’t complain, at least I have the option of wandering around town on my lunch break.
I just hope I don’t accidentally fall into Spoons
I’ve been in the office (mostly alone) for the last few years because I can’t do my job from home, it is extremely demotivating having to sit in an empty building all week. I’m thinking about looking for a new role where they’ll actually be some human interaction.
edit: amazing, get downvoted for holding an opinion counter to the hive mind.
JRM work shaming people hahah
I go into the office one or two days a week, depending on when the rest of my team are in. When we are in, we don’t get anywhere near as much work done – it’s all about having a catch up with colleagues. We all get the bulk of our work done when working from home.
Trust and respect is huge when it comes to working from home, or even working effectively as a team in any location. My manager is very much not a micromanager, and he is known for being big on making sure the right people are in the right job and being proactive with fixing problems if something isn’t working. He has had zero issue giving the team the ability to assess the appropriate and correct times to use the office, supplier offices or home working based on work requirements, even before the pandemic happened.
While there is a personal responsibility to get your work done when working from whatever location, some responsibility does lie with the management team if something isn’t happening – managers should remove roadblocks when needed and empower their teams.
My team are spread in 4 different cities and I’m the only one in my location. I go to the office one day a week as a box ticking exercise. It’s quite nice ti get some actual interaction with people in my location but from a business pov it’s pointless me being there. I get less done due to the commute, the noise etc, and I have to sit on teams calls in a busy office.
Since I started working from home, diesel has gone from about 135ppl to 195ppl so, yeah, fuck that noise.
One of the reasons im not kicking off about our low payrises these last few years is letting me WFH full time saves me a fortune. If they wanted me back in the office, I would find another job.
I’ll never work from an office again.