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Work from Home and Productivity
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#2"Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working after normal business hours. Average output did not significantly change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. "
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#4Important to note that:
> Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company
I suspect companies that already had strong WFH and remote friendly practices in place probably had very different outcomes. Western companies probably also have very different communication styles that would lead to different outcomes as well.
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#5They used tracking software on employee's computers. That alone was enough for me to close the link without reading further. My company uses Microsoft's inane version of this, and the only real thing it measures is the amount of money going into Microsoft's account.
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#6They used tracking software on employee's computers. That alone was enough for me to close the link without reading further. My company uses Microsoft's inane version of this, and the only real thing it measures is the amount of money going into Microsoft's account.
One of the measures/trackers is the various spreadsheets that get opened. This certainly hurts the employees that have automated those aspects of their jobs. One of my initial roles had me inherit 15 different spreadsheet reports and over time I pushed all the report logic upstream so that I never had to open them. This made me much more productive whereas the tracking would show me as contributing very little.
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#7It’s a shame the WFH experiment is blended with the pandemic. It’s hard to decouple the “effectiveness of WFH” from the “pervasive impact of a global pandemic on all aspects of daily life”. I think a lot of people got a negative taste for WFH for reasons that are less WFH and more pandemic.
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#8They used tracking software on employee's computers. That alone was enough for me to close the link without reading further. My company uses Microsoft's inane version of this, and the only real thing it measures is the amount of money going into Microsoft's account.
"the analytics software takes into account whether an employee actually engages in a relevant task (which counts as work time) or merely procrastinates at their desk (not counted), by
monitoring which software tools the employee uses"
That's genuinely awful. I wonder to what extent employees are aware of the analytics, and how many people just set up macros look busy.
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#9JP morgan is forcing me to come into office, i am still waiting for my second dose.
Jamie is forcing ppl to come into work and making up stupid anecdotes about how ppl are unproductive at home. Him being "fed up" means i have to risk my life. [1]
I don't understand how he is getting away with this.
1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/04/jamie-dimon-fed-up-with-zoom...
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#10It’s a shame the WFH experiment is blended with the pandemic. It’s hard to decouple the “effectiveness of WFH” from the “pervasive impact of a global pandemic on all aspects of daily life”. I think a lot of people got a negative taste for WFH for reasons that are less WFH and more pandemic.
Lockdowns specifically, not just the pandemic.