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Working from home is not more productive than being in an office, after all
- mytailorisrich 3y agoNumber of calls handled per hour in retail does not seem to be the best metric to compare office and home working...
- keikobadthebad 3y agoFrom around 3 months ago, Jun 29th.
- Terretta 3y agoNot only that, most of the "after all" seems to be cites from early pandemic.
- latexr 3y agohttps://archive.ph/2rmGK https://archive.ph/2rmGK
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoFor some, in some particular industries, and not creative ones.
- latexr 3y ago> There is more to work (and life) than productivity. Perhaps the greatest virtue of remote work is that it leads to happier employees. (…) Indeed, several surveys have found employees are willing to accept pay cuts for the option of working from home. Having satisfied employees on slightly lower pay, in turn, might be a good deal for corporate managers. The author recognises productivity isn’t the only metric that matters and that work from home does have an effect on other areas, yet still chose to call it an “illusion” in the title and exclusively mentioning productivity in the subtitle.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoHere in the UK commute, especially into London, is so expensive that being fully remote vs. being fully office-based can be worth about £10,000 a year before tax (i.e. 10k on gross salary) I.e. for some people switching from having to go to London every day to being fully remote with a ~10k pay-cut is financially neutral (leaving aside any pension contributions). And they still save hours every day.
- verdverm 3y agoI don't think the authors typically get to choose the title for publication, and that more often than not, that is the editor's call
- latexr 3y agoFair. I’m not even seeing the author’s name in this piece, so it makes sense to direct the criticism at the the publication instead.
- beardyw 3y agoThe Economist preaching to the faithful.
- ossm1db 3y agoLies, damn lies, and statistics.
- red-iron-pine 3y agothe issue is not that it is more, but that it is not significantly less. and that there are a lot of benefits to not commuting, such as more time, better work life balance, less traffic, less emissions, and the ability to lower housing costs -- work in rural Kentucky in a 110k house instead of paying 7x that to be in a Nashville or DC suburb.
- ossm1db 3y agoThe Blue-Ridge Mountains vs a concrete jungle? That's a no-brainer.
- criddell 3y ago> it is not significantly less Maybe the productivity lens isn’t the right one to use. Companies don’t provide benefits like health insurance and weeks of paid vacation because it makes employees more productive. They do it to retain talent.