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> Doesn’t that tell anyone that there MIGHT be facts or at least good research on this that it isn’t producing good work for the money? I'd wager that most peo
by Shekelphile 3y ago
> Doesn’t that tell anyone that there MIGHT be facts or at least good research on this that it isn’t producing good work for the money?
I'd wager that most people are just as productive or more productive when WFH, but there will always be unethical people who will abuse the privilege when given the chance. There are tons of anecdotes of people just being straight up lazy, defeating naive monitoring solutions with mouse jigglers etc, or committing fraud by working multiple full time jobs concurrently.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI'd take the other side of that wager. I think most people who can WFH are doing as little as possible.
- Shekelphile 3y agoIf you want to go down this route I would argue that no office worker is ever very productive relative to what a blue collar employee deals with every day. You won't make them work harder by dragging them into the office, it will simply burn them out faster (1-2 hours more per day devoted to commute and cooloff from work once getting home) and employees forced into office will just steal time by taking long bathroom breaks/long lunch/sitting around chatting with buddies.
- wkat4242 3y agoI think most people in the office are doing as little as possible as well.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI have seen about zero WFH people acknowledge the abuses. That’s how I know not take any of the argument too seriously. When I see someone write “but I love working half time and they have no idea but it all works out” then I’ll pay attention. Or if even accept at least “I know a lot of people are abusing it”. Instead it’s all “I’m such an honest worker”.