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It really depends on the person. The people who naturally focus and can ignore distractions excel at WFH. A second category of worker benefits from the rituals
by PragmaticPulp 6y ago
It really depends on the person. The people who naturally focus and can ignore distractions excel at WFH.
A second category of worker benefits from the rituals of getting ready in the morning, context switching to office mode, seeing their peers in person (however briefly), and sitting down at a separate workstation that is dedicated to work and nothing else.
In my experience managing mixed on-site and remote teams, most people assume they’re in the first category but many people eventually discover they’re actually in the second category.
WFH is great for some, but actually quite difficult for many others.
- jolmg 6y ago> The people who naturally focus and can ignore distractions excel at WFH. Depends on whether there are more distractions at work or at home. Some live alone and have no distractions at home, but at work must try to ignore some really loud people in an open-office and/or engage in constant, impromptu, relatively unimportant meetings at work. People that can focus instantly on demand and ignore distractions excel at this type of office.
- conductr 6y agoPerhaps even contextual. I find as an employee I’m the second and as a founder I’m the first.
- blntechie 6y agoAlso, people assume everyone in the world have a bare minimum workspace at home to work distraction free - a basement, or home office or at least a small nook. But there are so many wide variety of people in the world who don’t have such luxuries, live with extended families and had to WFH. I doubt they were productive as such.