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I tend to reply to "Does working from Home work?" with "Does working from Work work?" Having spent a few years in a corporate environment, and many more as a c
by jmadsen 14y ago
I tend to reply to "Does working from Home work?" with "Does working from Work work?"
Having spent a few years in a corporate environment, and many more as a consultant in other people's corporate environments, I can tell you first hand that the amount of work you do has very little to do with where your chair is located.
Either you are the type of person who gets stuff done, or you aren't.
There are huge distractions everywhere you go. People who get things done incorporate them into their schedules & stay productive. Others use them as a welcome escape from actually working.
That said, home workers are 1) monitored more closely and 2) fresher from not having to deal with commutes, so no surprise to see the numbers show them as "more productive"
- enraged_camel 14y agoYour post comes across as very cynical, and I disagree with it completely. The type of environment someone is in always has an effect on their productivity. In my case this effect is huge. For example, I build software demos for a living (Sales Engineer at a software company), which requires big chunks of uninterrupted time. I cannot find that at work, even with noise-canceling headphones. If I'm at home though, or even a coffee shop, I get in "The Zone" very easily and can stay in it for quite a while before needing a break. This way, I've built demos in one day that would otherwise have taken me over a week.