Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive.
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Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.
Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.
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@lowqualityfacts > working from home
it's not that simple. some people really can't be trusted to work from home. some people have insane discipline and can tony stark the whole project from a cave.
there are actual reasons to work in an office but the managers don't make use of those so its somewhat irrelevant though :gutkato_pensas: -
Kevin Karhan :verified:replied to iced quinn last edited by
@icedquinn @lowqualityfacts personally, I think unless it's literally impossible it should be up to the workers to choose remote/onsite.
- impossoble as in: production facilities, carework, contractors, etc. Tech Support / Callcenter jobs DON'T QUALIFY!
I mean there are always reasons for people.to prefer if not need to work in an office. May it me noise, distractions by small children and/or pets, garbage internet, etc.
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🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃replied to Kevin Karhan :verified: last edited by
@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts
I used to commute into downtown to sit in an office at a computer to do stuff in web browsers which were all cloud based.
Then the pandemic happened.
And we all had to do the same thing at our computers in web browsers... at home... which was fine... because... all cloud based.
"Oh, no productivity drop," and the office has still only gone to two days in office for permanent full-time workers. The rest of us, all stayed remote.
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🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃replied to 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 last edited by
@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts
For some of us, our productivity actually increased. Because our commute was terrible. Tokyo rush hour is not for the faint of heart.
Being able roll out of bed onto my laptop made it easier to get things done, versus needing an hour or two of recovery after 90 minutes sardined into a rush hour train car.
There is no reason for jobs of my type to ever be in person except on very special occasions. I think I went in once every 3 months for conferences.
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🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃replied to 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 last edited by
@kkarhan @icedquinn @lowqualityfacts
And by conferences, I don't mean I was an attendee--I was either a host or I was responsible for physical set up of equipment, which obviously one cannot do remotely.
But if 99% of my job can be done inside a browser tab, why am I commuting into downtown? Not all jobs can be remote, but a significant amount of them can be when your day is spent staring at a screen anyway.
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iced quinnreplied to 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 last edited by@jezebelkat @kkarhan @lowqualityfacts
> But if 99% of my job can be done inside a browser tab, why am I commuting into downtown
there are some social aspects that depend on locality. confidence projection doesn't work nearly as well remote. (machiaveli writes about this in the prince; the prince should move to a province if he wants to rule it, because ruling from a distance doesn't endear people to you.)
outsourcing maintenance (dusting the desks, refreshing hardware), more efficient food handling.
but most companies aren't doing that. they don't even have leaders, they just have pedagogs* to whip the employees. which is why i said its irrelevant.
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@icedquinn Why should the big and important prince move if he could just order, say, all the Little People of India commute to London after having conquered the subcontinent?