Ugh. Yes. My job of course can't be done from home, but so many can. Let's let those people stay home if they are productive and doing their jobs, and not have all these cars on the roads that don't need to be.
Covid accelerated the whole WfH thing into warp speed. It took most managements by complete surprise. Part of the shock was realising that people who could WfH were just as productive - if not more so - than working in an office. But then you have a choice when the Pandemic is over... Does everything just go back to 'normal' as if nothing had happened or do you sell your office building to be converted into apartments???
The productivity aspect makes so much sense. I am terribly unproductive on teacher work days/plan days after a certain point in the day, because I burn out and want to talk to my colleagues and not do any more planning/paperwork, etc.
Despite having lots of (apparent) experience & planning my ex-organisation didn't cope with extensive WfH very well at all. Despite touting the whole idea they (or at least some of them - managers I mean) didn't like the fact that they couldn't physically *see* people working (or not) at their desks - despite the drive to cut costs by cutting office occupation. It was all very confusing (or counter-productive) from the PoV of us at the coal-face.
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Ugh. Yes. My job of course can't be done from home, but so many can. Let's let those people stay home if they are productive and doing their jobs, and not have all these cars on the roads that don't need to be.
Covid accelerated the whole WfH thing into warp speed. It took most managements by complete surprise. Part of the shock was realising that people who could WfH were just as productive - if not more so - than working in an office. But then you have a choice when the Pandemic is over... Does everything just go back to 'normal' as if nothing had happened or do you sell your office building to be converted into apartments???
The productivity aspect makes so much sense. I am terribly unproductive on teacher work days/plan days after a certain point in the day, because I burn out and want to talk to my colleagues and not do any more planning/paperwork, etc.
Despite having lots of (apparent) experience & planning my ex-organisation didn't cope with extensive WfH very well at all. Despite touting the whole idea they (or at least some of them - managers I mean) didn't like the fact that they couldn't physically *see* people working (or not) at their desks - despite the drive to cut costs by cutting office occupation. It was all very confusing (or counter-productive) from the PoV of us at the coal-face.
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