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Re:Work from Home and Productivity by andersource on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:36PM (#27159974)
For me personally, the reason is that I fully expect the pandemic to negatively impact productivity in ways completely unrelated to WFH (children in home instead of school, stress, lack of preparedness to proper WFH, etc.). In contrast, I find it difficult to think of pandemic-related but not WFH-related aspects that I expect to improve productivity. I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise.
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Re:Work from Home and Productivity by theleftfielder on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:00PM (#27160154)
I think the biggest one is that most people's social lives also dried up during the pandemic. You weren't finishing up WFH and then rushing out to get dinner and see a movie with friends. You weren't traveling or taking vacation. I've had a lot of conversations with people on my team over the last year that were some version of:

Them: "I finished this over the weekend."

Me: "That's great, but you're to be clear you're not expected to do that. You should feel free to take weekends off to recharge!"

Them: "Yeah but what else am I going to do right now?"

If there hadn't been a pandemic, they would've been doing all of these other things and then more likely to cut back on work when the end of work hours roll around.

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Re:Work from Home and Productivity by ClumsyPilot on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:54AM (#27164756)
I think thats still a negative, becauss it's a recepie for depression and low morale
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Re:Work from Home and Productivity by throwaway3699 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:10PM (#27167982)
And this is where I am right now after a year of this s**. Let's get reopened for those who are struggling.
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Re:Work from Home and Productivity by andersource on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:35AM (#27163230)
That's a good point, thanks!
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