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Re:How This Ends by hotpotamus on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:00PM (#31469561)
I was very productive over 2 years working from home. I actually managed to complete a few home construction projects while answering a few slack questions from my phone once in awhile.
Re:How This Ends by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:15PM (#31469729)
I don’t think anyone argues that work from home allows for self beneficial gains.

Really you’re just saying the quiet part out loud ;)

Re:How This Ends by hotpotamus on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:21PM (#31469807)
Well the other quiet part that executives don't say out loud often is that if the job can be done from home, then it can be done from Mexico, India, or Eastern Europe as well which is where that job is now. To be fair, that was happening before even the pandemic, and I was mentally half checked out too. Now I work in healthcare which has a bit more of a US centric moat to it.
Re:How This Ends by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:58PM (#31471532)
>Well the other quiet part that executives don't say out loud often is that if the job can be done from home, then it can be done from Mexico, India, or Eastern Europe as well which is where that job is now.

Or heading to. Yea, I largely agree. But I fired two people during pandemic from not-exactly-wfh, so I’m perhaps a little biased.

Re:How This Ends by izacus on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:29PM (#31469933)
That's nice, but was does your personal *feeling* have to do with actual productivity across the economy?
Re:How This Ends by hotpotamus on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:45PM (#31470129)
I'm just one data point. Where do we aggregate such data to show knowledge worker productivity? I'd be curious to look at it.
Re:How This Ends by chii on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:27AM (#31477644)
are companies getting the same amount of output as before WFH? Are they growing with the same rate as before?

For the tech sector, i think they are.