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A comment on Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit. Parent comment

Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by hpoe on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:51AM (#26994176)
How many of them have slowed down b/c of the pandemic vs WFH? I can imagine a job being a lot harder if suddenly your children are home all day, heck my kids aren't even school age and my wife is home fulltime and I still sometimes have my little ones come in asking for juice or to help them put on their shirt, or something like that.

Not to mention the additional stress and isolation that comes from all of the pandemic management measures, and the omnipresent low level fear. Honestly if WFH has even remained steady with in office in this hostile environment to me that is a pretty big indicator it is better for businesses.

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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by skeeter2020 on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:19AM (#26994546)
this matches my experience as a dev manager. We had a bump in productivity initially, probably due to a fully-charged battery of team combined with less disruptions, but now productivity has declined by all our quantative measures (deploys, cycle times, failure frequency,etc). These are all proxies and not prefectly isolated, but better than "gut feel"
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