Re:Ask HN: Productivity losses – a condemnation of 'work fro...
by ojkelly on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:00AM
(#30124909)
Pandemic work from home is not regular work from home.
If you’re doing it as a choice, you need space and a regular home office. Not everyone can do that right now. Sometimes you need to move house to make it happen.
Also, not everyone wants to work from home. I do for the majority of the time. I’ve see. A pretty equal split between never office, a bit of both and never home.
For those not in their ideal environment there will be a productivity impact. The pandemic is an additional handicap.
We’ve proven we can function without a building, so coming out of the pandemic is realising what type of office meets the people in your company need.
If you’re doing it as a choice, you need space and a regular home office. Not everyone can do that right now. Sometimes you need to move house to make it happen.
Also, not everyone wants to work from home. I do for the majority of the time. I’ve see. A pretty equal split between never office, a bit of both and never home.
For those not in their ideal environment there will be a productivity impact. The pandemic is an additional handicap.
We’ve proven we can function without a building, so coming out of the pandemic is realising what type of office meets the people in your company need.