It strongly depends on your personality type. I'm much, much, much more productive WFH due to my ADHD.
Also, noise cancelling earphones did NOT help while I was still in the office.
Why is remote work seen as a gift?
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Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#12Because most people don’t like to be told to be in a certain place for a certain amount of time from where they can not leave. There’s another name for this situation.
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#13Before Corona I travelled a lot and now I live so remotely that a office job is out of the question without moving.
The actual remote jobs I've seen in that time all had weird issues like fixed (early) meeting times, more often than not even daily. Or performance tracking that went as far as installing third party monitoring Software while not even getting a dedicated work computer. Or being available at slack the whole time.
If that is what remote work means I don't get it. It's just as stressful if not more, minus the commute.
Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#14Because most people don’t like to be told to be in a certain place for a certain amount of time from where they can not leave. There’s another name for this situation.
> where they can not leave.
unlike a prison, you're free to leave the job.
Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#15It’s a gift if you don’t have small children. It’s ridiculously harder if you do. It’s like trying to work in an emergency room, where every minute there’s some emergency, and you’re trying to do something different.
Of course most people working in tech aren’t facing this issue and so think working from home is great for everyone.
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#17This article rests basically everything on one assertion: organisational productivity is equal or better with remote work. It would be prudent to show some evidence of this when making the subsequent points.
The opposite position could just as well be said to rest on the opposite assumption.
Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#18It is very interesting to see how strongly the opinions differ on this topic. Both sides have good and understandable arguments. I think that in the future, jobs will also be advertised with the phrase "primarily in the office".
To capture the maximum candidates, they would advertise it so that it sounds like the job can be both remote and in office. Only until the actual offer would you truly find out, and even then, may be not, until you actually turn up and obtain social cues on what the real expectation is.
Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#19It is very interesting to see how strongly the opinions differ on this topic. Both sides have good and understandable arguments. I think that in the future, jobs will also be advertised with the phrase "primarily in the office".
A single hour in the office per week makes big difference in terms of where you can reasonably be located for that job.
Re: Why is remote work seen as a gift?
#20It's seen as a gift because employees have come to treat it as a perk. There's isn't a good negotiation reason for an employer to treat it as a default because they can use it as leverage to get less salary from you in return for remote.
As long as candidates see it as a possible alternative to additional compensation, it'll be treated as a perk that can be revoked. Execs would do the same thing with bathroom access or access to drinking water if it was practical.