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For me personally, the reason is that I fully expect the pandemic to negatively impact productivity in ways completely unrelated to WFH (children in home instea
by andersource 5y ago
For me personally, the reason is that I fully expect the pandemic to negatively impact productivity in ways completely unrelated to WFH (children in home instead of school, stress, lack of preparedness to proper WFH, etc.). In contrast, I find it difficult to think of pandemic-related but not WFH-related aspects that I expect to improve productivity. I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise.
- theleftfielder 5y agoI think the biggest one is that most people's social lives also dried up during the pandemic. You weren't finishing up WFH and then rushing out to get dinner and see a movie with friends. You weren't traveling or taking vacation. I've had a lot of conversations with people on my team over the last year that were some version of: Them: "I finished this over the weekend." Me: "That's great, but you're to be clear you're not expected to do that. You should feel free to take weekends off to recharge!" Them: "Yeah but what else am I going to do right now?" If there hadn't been a pandemic, they would've been doing all of these other things and then more likely to cut back on work when the end of work hours roll around.
- andersource 5y agoThat's a good point, thanks!
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI think thats still a negative, becauss it's a recepie for depression and low morale
- throwaway3699 5y agoAnd this is where I am right now after a year of this s**. Let's get reopened for those who are struggling.