Felt the same. Excited to go office so can leave early, take longer lunch break.
Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently
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Re: Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently
#52Yes, but I get to work through pointless meetings and avoid chit chat. The efficiency comes from getting more hours in the same 8 hour block to do actual work.
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#53Is "productivity at home is same as at office, but work at home has more micro interruptions that researchers couldn't track" a viable theory? Would explain longer hours and seemingly lower productivity. (Workers are just taking care of little domestic things here at there throughout the day.) They don't say many details about how they determined when people were working.
>work at home has more micro interruptions
The exact opposite is true in my experience.
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#54This barrage of anti-wfh rhetoric from the economist is getting tiring
Probably some company exec's trying to build an argument to protect their high cost real estate assets from depreciation.
Think of it, if say 30-50% of an office can become unused in 50-70% of companies in a city. Man will the value of that office will tumble. I'd bet it would see a noticable depreciation even if it was 30-45% unused and only 30% of companies in a city acted on it.
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#55To generalize in a simplistic way: upper management wants to go back, everyone below doesn't. So publications targeted at the former will support office work while others targeted at the latter will support WFH.
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#56You have to count the time in traffic in the efficiency calculation.
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#57“It’s best for you AND the company” sorry but every time I’ve heard this exact phrasing, it was only good for the manager voicing it, not for me NOR the company.
"It's best for the company" marks the time when the relationship with your boss jumped the shark and never recovers.
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#58The big quality of life thing I received from the Pandemic is that instead of procrastinating, I simply take a nap. No bullshitting. I know the elite companies have nap chambers, but WFH provided this for me - a regular ass joe the plumber developer. No commute, rest when stressed by a problem, a deep dark secret that’s helped me just do the work or sleep. The simple rest has solved entire features for me. The humani…
It is quite funny how shunned napping is in our society. I feel most people have had at least one experience where a 20 min cat nap has revitalized then more than any stimulant like coffee could ever do.
So why is it shunned to the point of ingrained worry that someone might catch you napping?
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#59I’ve found remote work is hardest with time management, specifically when I have lulls in the day where I don’t feel particularly focused. At the office I would have gone to the cafe or for a walk outside the building (downtown), had a short break, and gotten back to work. When I try that from home it doesn’t work well. I’m fortunate to have a home office with a door I can close. But if I leave that room I’m immediat…
I agree. I have had many similar struggles as you have had. With my commute I often came up with interesting ideas or solutions to problems. I've found the online scheduled meetings just are not as effective as inpromtu in person meetings. Idea generation and brainstorming are not as effective at home.
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#60Not commuting saves me about an hour each day. I feel less stressed from not fighting it out in traffic. It's also nice saving a bunch money from not paying for gas, parking and eating out.
I guess it depends on the job and position and person.