Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment

Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by minipci1321 on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:06AM (#22222865)

Remote work is a skill, it takes time to acquire, just like office work and barely less. (Have you forgotten how hard it was to stay put for 8+ hours in the same place? I still remember.)

My personal estimations -- it takes 18 month to work out an established routine, so any RW "decreed" on the worker before that time, is indeed effectively vacations.

The worst scheme is working from home 1-2 days a week, and coming to office for the rest. Beside the established routine it also requires adapting the sleep schedule (which is twice as hard if the RW days are floating, not fixed).

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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by bradstewart on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#22225260)

Why does working from home 1-2 days a week require changing your sleep schedule?

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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by minipci1321 on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:36PM (#22228709)

Because when one works from home, there is no need to allot time for commute. People with short commute times (==> no need to adjust sleeping schedule), are much keener to go work from the office.

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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by bradstewart on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:48PM (#22238594)

But if I wake up at 7am to commute, I can still wake up at 7am when working from home. You don't have to convert commuting hours to sleeping hours.

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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by minipci1321 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:29AM (#22248321)

Of course you don't have to. But, to be honest, waking-up at 7am spells "no commute" to me.

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