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re: Is working from home more beneficial?
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:59 am to Bayou
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:59 am to Bayou
quote:Absolutely, if you have the discipline to do it for the long haul. The risk is not everyone can be as productive in an 8 hour day. Plus, some professions will "encourage" longer hours since you have the freedoms to log in and work anytime of the day.
Is working from home from more beneficial?
quote:It would be interesting to see how it would play out once we are back to full capacity as an economy and those that can work from home, start doing so. What you are seeing now would not be the norm, because there are a lot of people out there whose jobs won't allow a work at home environment and are just not working right now.
Less traffic - less emissions
quote:I can see a good balance for those positions where work from home is feasible. If I had a choice, I would do a 3 day at home, 2 day in office (or vice versa). There are just some things that I cannot do remotely, and at least 2/3rds of my operations need to be at the facility to work.
Is this better for humanity?
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:30 am to Weekend Warrior79
As a general rule I dislike people, stupid people even more so. This works for me!
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:51 am to Bayou
As someone who has worked from home for 25 years I can tell you it has a significant impact on your work AND personal life.
Negatives
You take up personal space for work.
You can never, truly leave work.
You wake up and work is there.
You can get sick, but never take a sick day unless you're actually hospitalized.
You are constantly bombarded with annoyances and diversions.
Learning to ignore everything is not easily accomplished.
You will work at night.
You may work in the early AM.
Your privacy is invaded.
Conference calls are generally time wasting crap because of micro managing bullshite or people who are narcissistic and want everyone to listen their awesome report.
IT support isn't someone down the hall anymore. Good luck getting help.
Developing key personal interaction with people that can help your career or to get things done is not possible.
If your spouse doesn't work, or also works from home, you see them too much.
Young children at home at the same time makes you feel guilty that you are there and they don't understand why you're not having fun with them.
Things you would normally do, like work on the house, fish, play golf, etc.. falls to the side because your damn job is at home and you will find yourself being tasked with more and more to do, because you aren't visible to management and they can't physically see what your load is really like, so they give you more to do. *studies have shown this is a fact.
You will have higher utility bills.
Advantages:
No commute to work. Saves wear and tear on your car. Lowers your fuel cost.
No dry cleaning bill.
No need to get up early, shower and dress nice.
You can conference call in your undies.
No having to look at / deal with overweight, cranky old women during the day.
You can go to medical appointments and do other things because you can adjust your work hours.
So, there's good and bad to it.
Negatives
You take up personal space for work.
You can never, truly leave work.
You wake up and work is there.
You can get sick, but never take a sick day unless you're actually hospitalized.
You are constantly bombarded with annoyances and diversions.
Learning to ignore everything is not easily accomplished.
You will work at night.
You may work in the early AM.
Your privacy is invaded.
Conference calls are generally time wasting crap because of micro managing bullshite or people who are narcissistic and want everyone to listen their awesome report.
IT support isn't someone down the hall anymore. Good luck getting help.
Developing key personal interaction with people that can help your career or to get things done is not possible.
If your spouse doesn't work, or also works from home, you see them too much.
Young children at home at the same time makes you feel guilty that you are there and they don't understand why you're not having fun with them.
Things you would normally do, like work on the house, fish, play golf, etc.. falls to the side because your damn job is at home and you will find yourself being tasked with more and more to do, because you aren't visible to management and they can't physically see what your load is really like, so they give you more to do. *studies have shown this is a fact.
You will have higher utility bills.
Advantages:
No commute to work. Saves wear and tear on your car. Lowers your fuel cost.
No dry cleaning bill.
No need to get up early, shower and dress nice.
You can conference call in your undies.
No having to look at / deal with overweight, cranky old women during the day.
You can go to medical appointments and do other things because you can adjust your work hours.
So, there's good and bad to it.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:53 am to Bayou
I wouldn’t want to work from home 100 percent of the time but I’d be ok with us only keeping 2 of our 5 floors once this is done and basically only going into the office once a week.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:01 am to HubbaBubba
I am commercial and have worked from home for years. My wife is back office management and has never worked from home consistently.
We are fortunate to have a very nice home office with doors to close it off. So she has a work space that is comfortable and productive. I can setup my laptop and work any where so we are good.
We both love it so far, seeing each other more, she is way more relaxed without commuting
she usually gets up at 4AM on normal days for her commute and not having to do that is a game changer
We are fortunate to have a very nice home office with doors to close it off. So she has a work space that is comfortable and productive. I can setup my laptop and work any where so we are good.
We both love it so far, seeing each other more, she is way more relaxed without commuting
she usually gets up at 4AM on normal days for her commute and not having to do that is a game changer
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:05 am to BayouBlitz
quote:
I'm just not near as productive from home. Maybe if I had a full home office, I could be.
Prior to this, I would work from home (ie. at the breakfast table) a few days a month, and I just wasn’t very productive.
When my company went full remote 3 weeks ago, I setup a mini office in my house- dual monitor setup, external keyboard & mouse, etc. I’m now just as productive at home as I would be in the office.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:07 am to supatigah
Oh, I agree. My wife has her office and I have mine, separated by an 75' walk from each other, but not everyone has a five bedroom home.
For the most part, we never see each other during the day. We're both focused on work (I give TD a glance now and then). But everything I wrote in my prior post is true. There's bad that comes with the good.
For the most part, we never see each other during the day. We're both focused on work (I give TD a glance now and then). But everything I wrote in my prior post is true. There's bad that comes with the good.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:09 am to Quidam65
quote:
But if you work in an office where you like your co-workers, you start to miss them. (Of course, conversely if you have bad co-workers, you don't miss them at all.)
I don't think it has to be as cut and dry as work from home or not.
I think some companies will begin to move towards 1-2 days in the office for meetings early in the week, the rest of the week get your stuff done from home. Or a portion of the office comes in for a couple days, and the other works from home. If you want to come in to the office because you work better come in. If you like the freedom to take a walk around the block or water your garden after you finish a project, then work from home.
I do think the idea of a butt in the seat for 8hrs a day=working will be phased out after this.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:11 am to Bayou
I'd enjoy working from home more if the rest of the damn world wasn't shut down and there were things to do.
Being home all day and evening and weekends is getting old.
Being home all day and evening and weekends is getting old.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:21 am to Bayou
My productivity hasn't suffered and our tools are more than sufficient (I spent my whole morning talking to people in Europe w/ no issues) but I'm going a little batty from the limited social interaction relative to what I'm accustomed to.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:32 am to Bayou
I don't like it, but I prefer a structured environment. I'm just not going to get in an 8hr day from the home office. Not when I can knock out some home improvements or watch TV at any time. Besides, when the wife and kids go back to work and school there won't be anymore extra family time, so I might as well be in the office.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:34 am to Jorts R Us
All are interesting responses
I was asking more from the societal benefit as opposed to personal benefit.
I was asking more from the societal benefit as opposed to personal benefit.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:34 am to Bayou
I love it. Going to end our office lease when it's up and move to full time home office
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