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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by postalrat on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @09:46AM (#40926862)
If work from home is as productive as in the office it will grow. If now it will shrink.
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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:41AM (#40927435)
Ideally yes, practically speaking many human bosses aren’t great at measuring productivity and want to see butts in seats.
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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by antisthenes on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:11AM (#40927102)
That's not it at all.

Leadership can either set up remote work for failure or for success through top-down policy.

You're also assuming some kind of perfect instantaneous feedback mechanism exists to measure productivity and adjust the remote/office work on the fly. It doesn't and never will.

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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by postalrat on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:32AM (#40927346)
Over time trends will be visible and used to make decisions. It's not instantaneous at all.
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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by kjkjadksj on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:18AM (#40927877)
People aren’t randomly assigning wfh and measuring output though its just whatever middle management think is right. If this stuff were informed by data the office would have died in 1995.
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