(Drivebycuriosity) - During Covid many employees fled their offices and started working at home. Now Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and many other corporation leaders demand that their employees come back to the company offices. No more working at home?
Musk, Jassy & Co. claim that remote workers are distracted. According to them working at company offices is more productive than remote. I disagree. I used to work at home over around 15 years; working as free lance journalist for magazines, newspapers & and an online service and wrote articles about financial markets and the economy.
I enjoyed working at home. The privacy, the quietness and being in my own environment stimulated me and raised my productivity. Since my income depended on the quantity & quality of my work, I had to be productive. If employers pay their employees for the quality & quantity of their work and for reliability and timely, they need not to worry about productivity.
Before I was a free lancer I worked many years in offices. There was always plenty of distraction. There was always something going on and a lot of commotion. There was a lot talk that was not necessarily work related. Ant there were plenty of attractive females I could not totally ignore. At home, there was just the computer that was waiting for my texts. And I had my deadlines. So I was more productive at home than in the offices I worked before,
I understand that an assembly worker at Ford cannot do this from home. But I think it is different for office workers who need just a computer for fulfilling their tasks. Modern technology - including smart phones, fast computers, advanced software, sophisticated apps - diminish the difference between working at home and in a corporation office.
I think the campaign against working at home is just silly. Are the superiors and organizers too lazy and too incompetent to deal with their employees, to motivate them and to measure their output? Setting deadlines is more efficient than constantly look over the shoulders of the employees.
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The back-to-office supporters complain that office buildings are empty. So what? There might be better uses for these buildings. The employers could cancel their leases and save tons of money or - if they are the owners - they would release frozen capital and use it for better investments. Office rooms could be transformed into flats. Turning offices into homes would reduce many problems.
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Home offices are good for the environment and are slowing the greenhouse effect because there would be less traffic, fewer traffic jams and fewer green house gases.
Working at home is a win win situation.
