90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housing shortage intensifies

Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by masklinn on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:51PM (#16924136)

> Is it possible that we're missing something in this? And that there might be more to this than companies being unwilling to try remote workers?

If open-plan offices are any hint, it's that actual knowledge worker productivity (let alone well-being) is pretty low on the list of things managers look for.

> I know my own experiences with working remotely and having remote colleagues have upon occasion been other than an unalloyed positive.

Sure but the same can be said of office work.

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Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by geodel on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:18PM (#16924414)

I recently moved to low cost city for job. Though we still have cubes but now there are about 40% smaller and walls are lower than last workplace. So in effect it is quite louder for work. However manager cabins are now twice as larger than before.

At the same time management has cracked down on any work from home requests. So somehow management does not care about individual productivity. As long as a crappy HP laptop is hooked on to 2 monitors every developer is good to go.

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Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by losteric on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:09PM (#16924335)

> knowledge worker productivity (let alone well-being) is pretty low on the list of things managers look for.

Alternatively, leadership has decided the price of lower density seating is not worth the increased productivity. Realizing there was no expectation of working at 100% significantly improved my well-being.

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