Forcing people to go into the office is the boss pretending to work.
15% increase in productivity going from 2 days in the office to fully remote. That was the number given to us by the same management team that brought everyone back 3 days a week.
They made up the number one way when it suited them, then made it up again the other way once it didn’t.
Oh don’t worry, no made up numbers, they can easily keep track of that stuff at that job, they can even have quotas in place and a point system
At my workplace, the made up numbers extend to the WFH ratio.
At first everyone was allowed to work as much from home as they wanted. Until internal agreements had been made.
Then they just set it to 50%. Arbitrarily. Because 50/50 sounds good, right? Can’t go completely wrong with 50/50 after all.
Then it turned out that only my regional headquarters does it. 15/16 regional sections and only mine enforces it fully. Everywhere else it is just an unenforced agreement.
Why? The regional boss thought it would be unfair toward the personnel that needs to work in person. The professional drivers. The cleaners. The clerks at the service counters.
Took them a year to go to 60/40 because they realized you cannot split a 5 day workweek 50/50 without having to implement all kinds of side rules, like alternating 3 and 2 day weeks.
And now it turns out no one gives a crap after all and everyone just does what they want until a teamlead is unhappy with you and looks at your office times to have a reason to admonish you.
Federal government agency, by the way.
I mean… I’m writing this while at the office “working” so I that seems very valid to me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
amateur: scrolling lemmy at work
pro: balatro at work
master: beat saber at workGrandmaster: sleeping at work
Super grand Master: beat saber, but not the video game
We used to have a nap room (which I actually requested and used often) until we downsized to a smaller office after Covid and we never got it back unfortunately. I mean what can I say, sometimes you just need to take a nice 10-15min power nap to get by. These days I use empty two person meeting rooms for this if the sleepies suddenly start hitting real hard. 😂
Funny you should mention, we actually have a PC and VR gear at the office that is free to use on breaks and it has beat saber installed. Unfortunately I can’t play it because I get nauseated easily by VR but I have a few colleagues who play a lot during breaks. 😅
I ruined my work day by dying early in Noita and spend the rest of the day too salty to do anything but watch youtube. I get out in a few minutes…
I don’t even have to pretend I’m not working when I’m in the office. I’m constantly being interrupted by people to the point where I only get maybe 2 hours of good working conditions total throughout the day. I may spend a good amount of my time at home blatantly not working, but even then I’m still getting more work done in a day than trying and failing to work for 8 hours in the office.
Yo same. I work more efficiently at home so I can fuck around between tasks.
If you can’t tell people are working productively remotely, you have no business being a manager.
I don’t want to work
I actually do more work at home. Zero distractions. Just work.
I know right? Who do these people think they are, shareholders?
I’d say the fake-work product from telecommuniters is by necessity of a higher grade of quality than in-office fake work. A cleric can simply run around between the copier and the coffee machine carrying a folder of papers, and that would be sufficient to entertain the boss. The at-home worker has to create a spreadsheet or chart or something that seems important and relevant to the department goals. to make sure the boss feels he got a day’s worth of work.
I get more done at home cause I’m a chatty guy in the office. But I do like the variety as I do Mon, Wed, Fri at home and Tue and Thur in the office.
Friday is a three hour day too.
The last thing I want is to take my work home.
The last thing I want is to take myself to the office, to each their own
Depends on the circumstances. After one year of wfh in a 18m2 apartment, I happily go to the office 4-5 days a week, even though I am not required to.
Again, to each their own
Especially if you work for Rothschild’s Sewage and Septic Sucking Services.
“When you’re in the muck, call our truck!”
My group is the only one in our building not allowed to work from home half the week. We are moving office soon, and as a part of that the other groups will have their regular WFH days eliminated, and we will all receive a number of WFH days at the beginning of the year like PTO.
I’d be mad about it, but every week like clockwork it takes 6+ hours for everyone at home to respond to simple emails or questions. I should be mad at the company for their stupid policy, instead I’m mad at the massive number of my coworkers who fucked it up for us before we even got it.
