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When you are in the office, the company has almost all your attention. There is almost nothing to distract you from work. When you are at home, there are a mil
by newaccount74 4y ago
When you are in the office, the company has almost all your attention. There is almost nothing to distract you from work.
When you are at home, there are a million things to distract you. There's laundry that needs to be done, the kitchen cleaned, kids that want to play, there's a full fridge with stuff to make a sandwich, a TV that you can turn on, etc.
When you are forced to go to the office, you are forced to take care of everything you need to do outside of working hours. You have to make sure you have child care available, you have to make appointments for service technicians in your free time, or ask someone else to take care of it.
Seen like this, I think it's obvious remote work is a perk for the employee. Employee gets more flexibility, but employer gets less attention. So I understand why employers would pay more for people who come to work on site.
- micahbule 4y agoI disagree employers don't have a win on the remote work setup. For one, they can reduce a lot of overhead for the upkeep of physical offices. There's also giving the idea of giving the employee more time for themselves, when in truth they really actually extended his work hours; just at the comfort of their homes and at their own pace. While it's not perfect for everyone, remote work has its perks for both employees AND employers.
- newaccount74 4y agoMore time often isn't really what the employer wants. I knew someone who put in a lot of hours, but always in the afternoon / evening -- when everyone else already went home. Which sucks for everyone who needs to coordinate with them, because you always need to wait a day for them to get back to your emails...
- pmoriarty 4y ago"When you are at home, there are a million things to distract you." Nothing distracts me when I work from home. I was far less productive in the office with ping-pong games, chattering coworkers, long commutes, etc. When at home I just focus on the work and the day flies by. It's a hell of a lot less stressful too.
- nikau 4y agoWhen I go into the office people are yelling into their mobile phones constantly and distracting me, I get bored people coming over for social chit chats, then end up wandering down for a coffee. Then there is the the 5 minute round trip each time to take a piss or get a water refill, the wandering around between meeting rooms for 5 minutes that would just be a 10 second call drop and reconnect in teams. And because I'm in the office I don't have a feeling of guilt when I waste any of this time because fuck it, that's what they are pushing for. Horses for courses.
- gardenhedge 4y agoI'd imagine most people's distraction is on their phone.. which they have in the office.
- jen20 4y ago> There is almost nothing to distract you from work. Have you ever actually… seen an office?
- pawelduda 4y ago> When you are in the office, the company has almost all your attention. Yeah, the company maybe but not the job to be done