re: Do the WFH crowd get the day off?

You don't get snow days if you work from home. Office people don't either, you work from home.

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Don’t understand how people work from home with kids around. It’s a fricking nightmare.

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I have a separate work space and they know to stay out when I’m working.

The problem with WFH is that most people doing it don’t take it seriously. You need a workspace no matter where you are. Get dressed. Keep normal hours. Have the same (or in my case better) equipment that you’d have in the building.

If you’re working in the living room with kids running around or in your bed in your underwear it’s probably not going to work.

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Eh I am a manager and I love it. I manage 2 supervisors and they have 20 total employees. We do 3 days in/2 days out.

PTO days are down substantially for my staff. Productivity is just as good, and is actually better on the 2 WFH days. We still have the benefits of seeing each other face to face 3 days a week. Hybrid seems to be a good model for us.

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I think what it really shows us is most people don't require 40 hours per week to do what they need to do maybe.

WFH allows all the personal things to be done during work hours.. that's why they take less leave.

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I think what it really shows us is most people don't require 40 hours per week to do what they need to do maybe.

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Anyone who has worked in an office building and pays attention to what everyone is doing already knows this.

You have people sitting in bathroom stalls for an hour, people wandering around talking about sports, people in cubes surfing the internet. People hanging out in the break room having conversations.

There isn’t some magical productivity enforcement mechanism in an office building. Loafers will loaf.

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think what it really shows us is most people don't require 40 hours per week to do what they need to do maybe.

WFH allows all the personal things to be done during work hours.. that's why they take less leave.

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That's a good thing for morality and productivity. Before, you were sitting in the office just wasting away during downtime. Now you can get a few things done around the house while doing the exact same volume of work, likely at better quality.

Still woking here:

I’ll gladly work from today versus having to go to the plant or some yard and freeze my dick off.

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WFH crowd get the day off?

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No - that's part of why we work from home, nothing stops us unless the internet/electric fails.

I've been doing it 7 years after commuting 45 min each way for years.

Yes, wfh today. About to drop a fresh basket of fries. Come on over, they don’t eat themselves. Bring friends if you have any.