Four months ago, employees at many U.S. companies went home and did something incredible: They got their work done, seemingly without missing a beat.
Executives were amazed at how well their workers performed remotely, even while juggling child care and the distractions of home. Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., among others, quickly said they would embrace remote work long term. Some companies even vowed to give up their physical office spaces entirely.To Read the Full Story
Or maybe that has to do with the global pandemic going on. Just a thought.
The_Americat
LionBlogosphere
Yes, and clearly there are no other factors whatsoever that could be interfering with people's productivity at the present time.
AlfonsoAGP
Ever wonder if the stress and uncertainty of a pandemic, layoffs, childcare and the economy have anything to do with productivity? Hmm 🤔
It’s a very new paradigm for some fields, and will take some time to refine processes and procedures. For other fields, like software engineering, it’s already a well-established practice, and far-flung teams succeed without issue.
One Japanese company thinks otherwise:
It’s almost like there’s a virus that people don’t want to contract.
Nope. Turn all these useless office spaces into low income housing or homeless shelters and get the fuck out of my face with this bullshit
Robotics company and a co already located in the burbs with a giant campus aren’t really representive. Things are starting to fray because kids are home and nothing has returned to normal.
AnitaSharma Working from home is not for everyone. Inmy field of engineering lot of people have actually been finding WFH more productive. Less interuption, more focus, working longer hours since there is no more commute time. Some company were just not ready for WFH.
If managers are panicking and unsure of how they’re going to deal with the “new normal,” perhaps they should be let go or moved to a less managerial position? We need innovators who can think out of the box and adapt accordingly.
It’s not surprising that a robotics startup working on hardware in a lab needs people in the office. For software development, great work has always been possible with distributed teams: every large and successful open source project was built this way.
If you have a program centered around remote workers, you won’t have these issues. Hire folks with great imagination, team work and a younger generation with more dedication.
Onboarding and changing jobs is definitely a challenge
What other POV would you expect from WSJ? They’re wrong. Change is in the air....
BoomerGuide Sponsored by paranoid bosses who don’t trust their employees to work remotely
Then wear masks, social distance, wash hands, don’t gather in large groups, test, make work spaces acceptable, and then maybe....
I worked from home for a number of years for a very large bank. After a while, loyalty, productivity and communication begin to dwindle. It's a leadership thing which keeps it together. Most leaders seriously don't take that aspect seriously. I should write a paper.
BS it is working well for many people and companies
I think that mixed schedules are best. Telework has serious drawbacks in terms of collaboration, info-sharing and team-building, but you don't need to be in the office 5 days a week to mitigate these problems. I think a lot of offices will settle into a 50/50 pattern eventually
This Wall Street Journal Article brought to you by: NY Commercial Real Estate.
It’s a project management problem. Hire competent managers. Cure Officitis
Because their kids are always around.
Not to mention zoom calls that turn into a nightmare when children are present.
Assuming this was sponsored by someone who doesn’t value work-life balance for workers
No shit.
Bullshit. Depends entirely what career field your talking about, and how you're leveraging the technology, and how you're managing/supervising your employees.
Sure projects takes longer etc etc, but are employees happier? But I don't expect an HR professional to consider that. HR just sees humans as a resource/commodity sadly. Def wouldn't want to work for that guy. humuinc
This doesn't surprise me for some roles/projects. If we listen, many coworkers would benefit from flexibility. My question: would you rather your entire team/dept be in the office at the same time or would a split shift work well for collaboration/productivity?
I don’t buy it. Its all ego and it’s going to cost companies millions in expenses they don’t need to pay for. Hard for CEOs and managers to feel relevant if they don’t have employees to micro manage on a daily basis.
Uhm, duh?
Duh
Oh please! You can’t trust the motives of WSJ reporting 🙄
CollinEatonHC Fucking duh.
Challenges: 1. Longer hours 2. Lack of adequate infrastructure at home 3. Distraction /inconvenience to children/spouse also working from home 4. Adoption of a suitable PMS 5. Lack of freewheeling exchange of ideas. Need for clearly identified WFH roles & rest back to office.
Duh
The more you work from home unfortunately, the more your employer will think that you are less productive or even worse, not essential. It's is even more so with people on temporary unemployment. A friend who's been furloughed since March was just told his contract is terminated.
Sure it is ... it just takes time. Expertise will increase, as well as expertise with the right tools (Teams, etc). More mature organizations are already at par at finding new areas of opportunity. Don’t be afraid of change.
No shit!
The problem is that the management being substandard & greedy. The workers lack discipline. Back in the day it was called telework. Everyone can't do this. Go back the office & finish the disaster.
Companies that don't know how to do it/manage ... Many are thriving and remote work is the 1st choice of high performance teams.
Duh!
It’s a pandemic,,,humans will get it figured
Evolve training programs, and provide tools to help those working at home to be successful, rather than give up and say it 'is not going to be sustainable'
Projects, collaboration and training all take place on a computer. What's the difference if it's the next cubicle or the next city, state or country?
This was supposed to be temporary!
We need a national strategy to get the virus under control. This piece-meal approach is obviously not working.
collecting pandemic payment from home is very hard work
was this article sponsored by the commercial real estate industry. who the hell wants to spend hours in their car commuting only to sit in a depressing cubicle. the office is dead, get over it.
NainaGowda
It’s an adjustment period. People will figure it out.
Yes and people will say 'Im teaching my kid in the morning' or u know theyre out golfing and theyll say they were on another call.....yaddi ya. Theres a reason in office became the game.
Only reason it works now is cuz people/clients are being patient due to pandemic. Once up and running and competition heats up it wont be acceptable. Wait until u lose some accounts cuz a competitor flew in to visit and stole ur client. Lets use those little things in our heads
We who said this before were mocked. It works in some cases but needs clear objectives and timelines.
There are so many long term consequences to all that's transpired that we have yet to foresee, let alone start a conversation about how to address them moving forward... We are hovering over the precipice of becoming a developing country
My personal experience is quite the opposite but I understand the challenges some organizations face.
Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »