Making people work mobile due to the coronavirus will show how little we do

WTF downvotes? I felt it was a great point.

The day drinking parties in the neighborhood gonna be lit!

Smart businesses that send there people to WFH will monitor which departments keep up or increase their productivity and tell them they don't have to come back to the office.


That's assuming this shitshow lasts long enough to make a reasonable assessment.

5/15?

5 people work from home out of 15 people on the team.

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Or they will see that they can automate a lot of tasks and that physical worksites are increasingly obsolete in a digital world.

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Not really true depending on the job.

I had to work from home today and it sucked. I only had my laptop and I really needed two monitors and it was slow and it just sucked. Even with all the communication tools we have, it’s not as face to face communication.

With that being said, our new office as a rule will not have assigned desks and will have less desks that workers under the assumption that more people will work from home and office capacity generally ever really gets above 80% capacity anyway.

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WTF downvotes? I felt it was a great point.

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For starters, decent bosses already know how little the employees do. Also, working from home is not a new concept. Many companies have been doing this for years. For the most part, productivity typically increases and companies save money on office space. Of course some people suck at it and need to be at work to avoid the distractions at home. But overall, it can be a positive. Personally I think there is a value to the relationships formed at the workplace however I am more productive at home so I prefer a mix.

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I had to work from home today and it sucked. I only had my laptop and I really needed two monitors and it was slow and it just sucked. Even with all the communication tools we have, it’s not as face to face communication.

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This is why I could never work from home full time, personally.

There are certain facets of my job that walking down the hall is just soooo much fricking easier and faster than calls or emails. I could probably learn to deal without that ability.

The killer for me would be permanently linking my home with my work. I have a great home office set up (nicer than my regular office tbh) 2 27 inch monitors and a nice big desk. But then I'd have to work from actual home every single day. I'd probably rather work in an office the rest of my life vs try to go to a coffee shop or library or some shite with a laptop.

A lot of people that have been WFH have said the key is to take breaks from working at your actual home and bring your work somewhere else every so often. I have no interest in doing that. It would be torture.

I've said this in the other recent threads on this topic. I'd love to work from home 1-2 days a week. If my options were full time in the office or full time at home, I'd probably have to pick office.

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People are still gonna have to work, fricking hippy. I mean real people, not fricking hippies, fricking hippy.

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At what point does the line blur between a fricking hippy and an individualist libertarian?

I’m genuinely fricking curious because I’m starting to agree with Bernie on corporations but I believe in the right to own any fricking guns including automatic belt-fed rotating turrets.