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The advantages of working at home are great until something goes at work like.... How long you were working? The company I worked for never realized how much ti

The advantages of working at home are great until something goes at work like.... How long you were working? The company I worked for never realized how much time it took me to do this design work and I'd get calls the next day asking why out of 10 designs I only turned in 9 and why I was still working on the last one? In reality each design should of taken a day for about 2 of them. Also, when it came time for layoffs it was easier for them to let the people at home go. No face to look at of explain anything too. They told me a few times I was about to be let go, but the never did and let others go. I ended up quitting and still trying for my own big win. :)

tsotha 16y ago
>Also, when it came time for layoffs it was easier for them to let the people at home go. I think this is the biggest drawback. If you start at the company as a wfh person, or you transition to it and do it long enough, nobody in the office can put a face to your name. Outside of your immediate group, they don't know what you do. You're just a name on a chart. "Hey, look, without that box the chart is a little more balanced!" In every company I've worked where wfh was tried (starting about 15 years ago), the wfh people were always the first to go when there was layoffs.
gte910h 16y ago
I think people need to get better about communicating about their jobs in general. Sounds like you weren't telling them how long it took you to do this stuff.
kemayo 16y ago
The layoffs thing was sort-of addressed in the article as being a benefit of being 100% remote. Because there's no "core team" in an office, there's no group of second class citizens working from home to be quietly fired. The issue with how much time things take is one of the more difficult aspects of it. It's ultimately a communications issue, though. If you're in an office then you don't have to explicitly communicate about it; people can see if you're putting in ridiculous hours on a project. If you're at home and putting in the same hours then they can't be expected to know unless you tell them somehow.

tsotha 16y ago

>Also, when it came time for layoffs it was easier for them to let the people at home go. I think this is the biggest drawback. If you start at the company as a wfh person, or you transition to it and do it long enough, nobody in the office can put a face to your name. Outside of your immediate group, they don't know what you do. You're just a name on a chart. "Hey, look, without that box the chart is a little more balanced!" In every company I've worked where wfh was tried (starting about 15 years ago), the wfh people were always the first to go when there was layoffs.

gte910h 16y ago

I think people need to get better about communicating about their jobs in general. Sounds like you weren't telling them how long it took you to do this stuff.

kemayo 16y ago

The layoffs thing was sort-of addressed in the article as being a benefit of being 100% remote. Because there's no "core team" in an office, there's no group of second class citizens working from home to be quietly fired. The issue with how much time things take is one of the more difficult aspects of it. It's ultimately a communications issue, though. If you're in an office then you don't have to explicitly communicate about it; people can see if you're putting in ridiculous hours on a project. If you're at home and putting in the same hours then they can't be expected to know unless you tell them somehow.