Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ...
by almost_usual on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:37AM
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I’m the same I had been WFH in SF for at least two years and joined a new employer pre covid that required me to go into the office. Once COVID hit my manager was really surprised by how much more productive I was. At this point we’re on a flex schedule going back, will see how that goes.
My hope is two days in the office for meeting days or interviews, rest engineering time at home.
Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ...
by sanitycheck on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:24AM
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I've worked from home for years, and found the same thing - it's made me look like, maybe not a 10X dev but definitely 2X.
But now everyone else I deal with is WFH too and... It turns out they don't appear to be benefiting in the same way and performance has probably dropped on average.
Give it a couple of years and most people will be back in the office as before, I expect.
Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ...
by ehnto on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:12PM
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I have gained a kind of hyper-focus and desire to do the work I had entirely lost thanks to the 9-5 grind, I've been working from home since before covid too. 9-5 5 day weeks seem almost designed to cause that kind of long-tail unproductivity.
I often -often, not "sometimes"- get more done by 8AM, than I used to get done in over half a day (or even the entire day) at the office.
WFH won't work for everyone. It takes real self-discipline, and not everyone considers home to be a suitable place for work.
Even in these cases, I think we'll be seeing alternatives, like small "work hubs," ala WeWork, that are close to people's homes, and allow them to have a lot more autonomy than the main office.