Although a slight increase in alcohol consumption was noted at the outset, the overall trend is towards greater well-being.
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I just wish my job could actually. Until I can remotely access a robot to drive around and fix equipment I’m kinda fucked on that front.
I’ve reported directly to the head before. Here’s why they don’t like remote work. These bosses are typically highly narcissist paired with paranoia.
I think many CEOs thinks like Trump, so let’s work off that. They have narcissism and paranoia. They are highly insecure. They assume the worst and others, but have ridiculously high expectations.
Trump can’t fathom people doing the right thing for the sake of it. He has never done a thing that didn’t benefit him. He can’t imagine not cheating someone given a chance. He’s cheated every single time.
My CEO was highly paranoid. He decided to setup cameras anywhere. He started confronting employees who left early or arrived later not understanding that everybody doesn’t arrive or leave the office at the same time. Even though the company needed focus on the agenda, he spent most of his time stalking employees.
When I was confronted for leaving early, I had to explain that I’m still working while making a delivery on my way home, or that it’s okay for me to be late if the first thing I do when I wake up is to respond to urgent emails and make important calls. This resulted in retaliatory pay cuts, so I quit. Of course, the business could not afford to lose me, so now I do contract work for more than double per hour and found a new job that treats everyone a lot better.
These people are truly detached from reality. Their poisoned brains prevent them from understanding basic human nature. The only side of human nature they understand is how people bend over for money. They’re control freaks.
Keeping you in office means they have the ability to pressure you. Emotional manipulation through micro management or unreasonable expectations. They know that at home, they can’t see you squirm. At work, you’re not safe, but at home, you are.
There’s also sour grapes from management types that have to go to the office for one reason or another. If I have to go, why don’t they?
Our CEO was a hyper optimist. He didn’t elevate anybody who wasn’t a peppy yes-man.
I go to office when I don’t have to be productive. The factor is round 10x. As ridiculous as it sounds, one single good day at home equals about two weeks of normal days at the office
We as a species had the opportunity to build a leisure society many times over the decades. We just prefer torturing each other with meaningless busy theater.
these “we” that you speak of… a group that starts with “c” and ends with “onservatives” i assume
Software engineer in New England here. I love love my by hybrid setup.
I go to the office whenever I want. Some days I feel more productive there, other days I want to sleep in a bit and work from home. I can charge my car for free at the office so that’s a big motivator lol.
Needless to say, I’m happy and extremely productive. I’m sure the company benefits greatly.
My non-sciencey group of “experts in the obvious” said the same thing.
Still, it’s good to have solid data backing us up as well.
/searches “Capitalist Manifesto” for happy workers phrase
No duh Sherlock
LOL I just got one of those “all the data shows we’re Better Together, so we’re increasing in-office days. No, we’re not going to share any of the data.” emails.
Cause that data doesn’t exist and they know it. Now you know management are incompetent liars, but I repeat myself.
The latest email I got included “we’ll be monitoring IP addresses to ensure employees are at the office” and “this is not about surveillance”.
How does that help employers?
Happier employees -> more loyal employees -> more productivity, less turn over, fewer training costs
Its really not that complicated
ETA: not to mention that remote employees are more likely to work longer hours which also leads to more productivity
who fucking cares?
Don’t need as much office space
Sadly idiot corpos think it makes them less money, so they don’t care
To be fair, most higher ups who keep going on about people not working when they’re home, are lying. They would notice pretty quick if 30% of employees suddenly did 50% less work. Some of them believe it, but that’s mostly projection.
They like use it as an excuse, because they know real reasons would make them sound like idiots. It’s things like not wanting to “waste” money on their 10year rental of office space that no one uses. Can’t keep paying some office managers and people in HR if there’s no one in the office. And so on and so forth. They literally want to justify their expenditure at the cost of company revenue, because they literally only care if the number for their department is positive of negative during budget review. Anything beyond that, including the company being run into the ground, does not matter to them evne if they were personally responsible.
TL;DR: Modern MBA education needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from scratch
They would notice pretty quick if 30% of employees suddenly did 50% less work.
They should realize that a bunch of the work doesn’t matter, can and should be skipped, and people do just that when they work from home. Also "just a quick question"s and "do you have a sec"s interrupt and reset real efforts in high level decision making and accuracy, every time.
. It’s things like not wanting to “waste” money on their 10year rental of office space that no one uses.
Which I’ve seen as a slightly hidden transfer of expense to the employee.
Company sees their empty office building as a waste of money but your home/apartment being empty for 8+ hours 5 days a week is okay because it doesn’t affect their bottom line.
Also your commute-related expenses, which are often a fairly substantial sum, and your uncompensated commute time.
Lots of companies own the offices their employees work in. Low demand for office space has a material impact on the balance sheet.
If an employee isn’t doing any work at home and you don’t notice, you are incredibly shit. Either they did nothing before and you should have noticed then, or you should notice that now they are doing nothing.
Too bad the folks in charge don’t care about your happiness.
The assumption is that if you have time to be happy, you have time to work more so happiness needs to be stamped out to increase productivity. That’s of course a myth as data shows happy workers are more productive. The result is workers stuck in the twilight zone of not being happy and not getting more work done. It’s one of the business religious beliefs.
Who gives a fuck what they care about? Too bad folks don’t take matters into their own hands.
The lead scientist’s name must be Captain Obvi Ous, assisted by Pro. Casti Nator
WFH enabled so many Americans who are disabled to actually hold a job, a job they wanted, and this is a direct attack on disabled employees and disabled people. WFH is inherently more accessible so you end up with more disabled employees, which cost your work sponsored health insurance to go up, which they do not want, so they erect this barrier of being in the office to prevent people who need to work from home from being employed there. Disallowing WFH is explicitly to get around the ADA
RTO is ableism
I would argue that Work from Home is an economic booster. More people get to work, less time and fuel spent on commuting, unneeded buildings don’t consume money anymore, social distancing, and so forth. It is just good all around.
Still waiting on the government of Canada to release their GBA+ report on imposing a return to the office that applies the same way to all even though pre-COVID such a measure didn’t exist and they intentionally hired people that couldn’t RTO during COVID… You know, a report that public servants are told is a necessity whenever a decision with a big impact has to be made…
Excellent point. I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I think that’s very likely an aspect of it.
