Don’t bother reading Forbes.
They’re directly invested in maintaining the status quo.
I worked fully remote during the pandemic and a year after in a IT team leader position and let me tell you, we did things / delivered quality stuff on those 3 years that we wouldn’t be able to do if we had to go to the office.
Productivity at home really depends on a lot of factors. Industries that require a lot of collaboration suffer greatly in telework situations. Training also suffers greatly. About 20% of the general workforce enjoy telework (large majority of the tech industry) while most prefer the social climate of an office.
I can attest that I prefer an office to my home. I built my home around comfort and joy. I hated working from it. It felt like work was invading my personal life.
Same. Of course it depends on the job, doing 4 in office and .5-1 at home could work but I already have a hard enough time trying to forget about work and not let it stress me out at home when they’re separate.
Plus I go a bit stir crazy being at home all the time.
But if someone wants it and it’s possible then why not?
I thrive in working from home environments. I put headphones on which makes me feel “locked in” to my work. I never had that benefit at work where people would constantly be asking me irrelevant questions or just striking up conversation.
I also would be in a very, very sour mood and tired because traveling to work ruined my personality before I even get there, plus I would end up stealing hours from sleep to make up for the loss, which would make me exhausted.
All in all, the ability to work from home is a natural progression of the benefits technology provides. It is foolish to push back against it. The benefits are so obvious.
Most people enjoy the social climate of an office? what??
Yes and we know this is not the case in the tech industry. It’s the exception.
Rather than be infuriated, block the site that wrote such a nonsense. Consider writing a relevant email first, where you explain your position and ask friends to join you in your boycott.
The world is like it is, because we forgot that there are consequences to our actions and claims.
As usual, I blame exTwitter and Facebook.
From my perspective working from from home as a software developer has been a major productivity booster. It’s a load of sh1t to make sweeping statements like this article. There is no right or wrong answer. It’s individual and role dependant and so should should be assessed as such.
Here’s a link to the actual article.
The article goes hard on what’s lost working from home, but doesn’t even touch the myriad benefits of working from home. Very much a one-sided, non-nuanced, pro-middle-management, bullshit article.
Employers should pay for travelled hours and cost. Then we’ll see if coming tot he office is worth those extra two hours per day of pay with no work.
