Literally everyone I know is now saturated with working from home. Here are WFH phases: First two weeks - hate it, less productivity Next 1 month - Love it, this is the future Next 2 weeks - Decreasing productivity, but maybe it's because my work is mediocre Now - Productivity down by 80%. Can't even work 2 hours a day with focus. Missing meeting teammates, in-person communication, missed deadlines, team morale is down, missing that tasty food from food truck. Many companies, like Twitter, thought after the first month that their productivity has not decreased and employees are loving it so proposed WFH forever. Many employees have started seeing the adverse effects of WFH now, especially since companies mentioned WFH until end of the year. Let's accept it people, WFH is not the future for MOST of us and this is not working out. Let's stop lying to ourselves and our bosses that we are enjoying WFH. Moving to rural USA sounds awesome now but when you'll have no social life there and will have no one you know around you'll start getting depressed and move back to cities.
I like partial WFH. I prefer meetings in person but technical work like coding or basically anything I can do on my own where it's easy to ping somebody for help I'd like to do from home
even for technical work, it is not that easy to work by yourself. there is dependency and issues that are easier to solve in person.
agree, Chime helps though, everyone needs to adopt if someone is remote, better communication, good writing skills also helps to clearly communicate ideas
People who are liking WFH, are you not missing in-person communication, lunch breaks, coffee chats, campus walks, whiteboard design meetings? How are we going to deliver life-changing tech like Alexa, Google Home, Facebook Messenger, etc working from home?
Do you have a life outside of work?
Implicit in your question is that working from an office is a necessary condition to deliver life changing tech. That assumption may not be true
Projecting much? Get your shit together and donāt ruin this for the rest of us.
I'm okay with decreased productivity. I'm tired of always trying to maximize everything.
Man, if you are not experiencing the productivity nightmare of trying to do your job while your kids are home because all childcare options are closed, you should count your blessings. I do like periodic office interaction but Iād give anything for 6+ hours of peace during the day to focus.
WFH <> Quarantine Work
The only part Iām hating is the stuff outside work. Iād gladly fucking continue to work from home once the daycare opens, the bars and restaurants open, and the fucking parks open. Besides that Iām definitely not missing the hour long commutes, the constant interruptions to work because I no longer can reply at a convenient time because the person just decided to walk over to my desk, the part where you line up literally everywhere in the city to grab overpriced mediocre lunch or the part everyone decides we need a meeting for things that could have been an email because everyone is just around and ālets just walk into a roomā.
Totally agree with your post. Luckily twitter says everyone gets meets expectations next year and no layoffs. So Iām using this time to focus on me. Itās like a work at home spa day.
WFH is great. Especially for those with the long commutes. Like 2 hours of life š„ in traffic? No thanks.
Hmm, that's one part, my commute used to be a 10 min walk to work.
Sounds like you need to work closer to home. Or home closer to work
Going back to the old way of high density open offices is just not happening until thereās a vaccine. You probably need to get a handle on how to be productive in this environment because this is the present (whether or not itās the future)
Heard Facebook said they donāt have enough open space in the future, lol
Canāt say I didnāt see this one coming :)