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 No.683192

It’s time to admit that hybrid is not working
<Mid-morning yoga comes at the expense of professional interactions and employee productivity
https://www.ft.com/content/d0df2f1b-2f83-4188-b236-83ca3f0313df

>A few months ago I was giving a talk about the future of work. When I quoted some standard examples of how productivity has risen with remote working, a polite scepticism crossed several faces in the audience. Afterwards, some executives revealed their despair. “I love my staff,” said one. “But they’re taking far longer to get things done at home.”

>This is not a fashionable view. Some corporate CEOs genuinely feel that greater flexibility makes everyone stronger — and many tech companies are happy to let coders, for example, dictate their own terms. Elsewhere, with various companies facing lawsuits for having had the temerity to ask staff to come back to the office two days a week, CEOs are tiptoeing around the question of return, trying to tempt staff back with cocktail hours. But as the race for talent sweeps all before it, they are perhaps setting unrealistic expectations.

>After the talk, I looked again at the research on productivity. In the early days of Covid, working from home looked like a win-win. Studies of when people were logging on and off suggested that many were maintaining or even increasing hours. One 2020 survey of American office workers found respondents reporting that both managers and subordinates were more productive. But the picture has since become more nuanced. A study of 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian tech company found that the productivity of those working from home fell by up to a fifth: many were working longer hours, but output fell, partly because they were just having more meetings. Japan’s Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry suggests that working from home has reduced productivity by almost a third, in a nation which is not used to it. More recently, a small Cambridge study found that UK workers spent less time on paid work during the lockdowns.

>The pandemic has spawned a huge literature focused on employee wellbeing, but rather less about the wellbeing of the customers and organisations they serve. In 1970s Britain, it was often said that nationalised industries such as British Rail were run for the benefit of their staff, not their customers. In parts of the public sector, it feels like we are back there again. This summer, half a million driving licences were delayed when staff went on strike after being asked to return to the office, and in September there were still 50,000 lorry and bus drivers awaiting licences that are critical to a functioning economy. Over at the Foreign Office, the whistleblower Raphael Marshall’s description of working in a largely empty building while trying to evacuate people from Afghanistan was a devastating critique of what he called the FCO’s “deliberate drive to prioritise ‘work-life balance’”.

>In the private sector, polls continue to show that a majority of us want to keep working from home, at least part of the time. But what if it isn’t actually that good for us, or those we work for? Octavius Black, co-founder and CEO of MindGym, believes the Great Resignation is being driven partly by remote working, which has weakened workplace ties and made us forget what we liked about our jobs. Working from home is “dissipating the social capital that you need to be a successful, complex organisation” he says. “You have to build the right psychological contract.” Sir John Timpson, chair of the high street firm Timpson, believes that even if we think we want to stay at home, we are social animals who “flourish in the company of other people”. Firms that adopt hybrid models in which the office is an occasional meeting place will be at a “competitive disadvantage”, he warns.

>That certainly chimes with me. My workplaces have always been crucial to my sense of belonging. According to Ashley Williams, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, humans hunger for casual interactions — the hallway conversation, the chat with the barista — which let us vent anger or express gratitude. I have certainly found myself talking rather too animatedly to shop staff, taxi drivers and fellow queuers. Williams argues that remote working may end up undermining productivity, because “we’re overscheduling our calendar to compensate for the lack of social interaction”.

>When employees protest that they are working their socks off, but bosses fear output is falling, who is right? Perhaps both. Studies have found that we are busier, having more meetings and seeing more internal emails, partly because remote work requires more co-ordination. But that doesn’t mean we are effective. Almost two years on from the first lockdowns, it wouldn’t be surprising if the initial dividends of working from home were fading. The world’s vast experiment in Zoom working was conducted at a time when most of us were already immersed in a corporate culture. But new hires will struggle to learn the nuances of the job if they can’t interact properly with senior people holed up in luxurious home offices. And leaders find it difficult to know what is really going on if they’re not having informal encounters with people outside the executive circle. You can learn a great deal from bumping into a junior person in a corridor and having a chat.

>No one wants to return to presenteeism or exploitation. But I do wonder why we are so reluctant to acknowledge that productivity might be dented by homeworking. One company director I know was recently surprised, on trying to schedule a meeting with a junior employee, to be told that it clashed with his yoga session. A senior lawyer was livid at how few staff attended online seminars she and colleagues carefully hosted — on Fridays.

>It is said that 2022 will be the year of the employee. But will 2023 be the year of workplace remorse? We shall see.

You heard it, folks. Working from home makes porky seethe.

 No.683204

>>683192
if the workplace is just a few labtops and online group-ware, that means it's getting a lot cheaper to build a cooperative. Contrast that with office buildings that are capital intensive and present a big barrier to entry. Maybe this is less about productivity and more about retaining control.

 No.683223

Working from home makes me want to kill myself and also my students aren't learning shit.

 No.683226

Porkies are not the smartest people. They don't understand their own profits when those are coming from a weird angle. They get their profit off others labor, doing work themselves - and organizing in a better way is work - is something alien to them, inconceivable concept.

 No.683227

>>683223
Based Eudomia

 No.683255

>Octavius Black
what is this a comic book
>>683223
Your students aren't learning anything period because that's not the point of the school system. The internet has taught me, and others, more about the world than school ever has. If teachers such as yourself actually cared about your students you would be fighting to change the school system. But you won't, just as it's easier for the petty-bourgeoisie to blame laziness for lack of labor participation, so it is easier for you to blame online classes for lack of student interest.

 No.683260

Work from home is overrated tbh. Only tech industry people like it.

 No.683265

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 No.683268

>>683265
that's a cute drawing

 No.683291

>>683260
It makes my job harder as IT.
But then, IT is just a tech janitor so…

 No.683300

>>683260
Personally I like it, doing data-sorting temp jobs at home is actually kinda nice. less of a need to pack lunch or eat shitty fast food as well.

 No.683317

>>683223
>>683260
>>683291
You're not fooling anyone

 No.684856

>>683204
It definitely is. Read more antiwork.
The middle managers have to justify their existence on the payroll to their bosses, they can't do that without maintaining the appearance.

 No.685511

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>>683192
>When employees protest that they are working their socks off, but bosses fear output is falling, who is right? Perhaps both.

 No.685602

>>683204
My company wants to force us to come to the office at least 1 day a week maybe more, any day of our choosing. It definitely is about control. We don't even have assigned desks anymore. It literally is just "come because we want you physically at the office for no reason other than control ". When I go to the office, it's like working at a cowork. I don't know anybody, all my meetings are video calls. I like going cause there's free coffee and drinks, plus there's big monitors at the desks.

 No.685754

Honestly I agree with this. Working from home has taken away one of our last social communities.

>No more commiseration with our coworkers
>No more work friendships
>Forget organizing your workplace if it's remote
>Destroyed our downtowns

 No.685764

>>685754
Maybe, but it's infinitely nicer working at home where I rarely have to deal with cunt bosses and I can do whatever I want so long as enough work gets done

 No.685768

>>685602
Same, work expects us all to come in 2 days a month now, then 1 day a week, even though we dont have assigned desks either and I rarely talk to anyone at work outside of actual meeting/training days

 No.685779

>>685754
>No more commiseration with our coworkers
don't care about that point that much imo. we do complain to each other pretty often, but nothing ever comes out of it.
>No more work friendships
it really depends on the industry you're working in and your personality. as someone who doesn't get along well with others and suffers from social anxiety, working from home has been a blessing for me, work friendships aren't really all that great imo. the furthest i ever got as a sperg was having some colleagues in middle school but that's where it ends. even in college i didn't manage to form new connections. plus i get to enjoy a much more bearable wagie experience, with no commute or annoying manager breathing down my neck when i've done my work, i can play low attention vidya and browse imageboards. this feels much better than going to work in person
>Forget organizing your workplace if it's remote
i disagree, if you were going to organize your workplace, it's just as easy to do it remotely as it is to talk to your coworkers. arguably, i would go as far as to say it's probably safer because you get to send them emails and messages instead of having to talk to them in person and risk getting fired or punished for it. not to mention, they won't feel the pressure of being at work at home, so you are more likely to succeed with your proposal. a lot of people don't organize because they fear their bosses, and working remotely removes a part of the power they have when you're in the same building as them so they're able to make a more rational decision.
>Destroyed our downtowns
another one i don't care about. muh downtowns

 No.685890

>>683192
maybe because they realized that online connections can lead to internationalization and subsequently revolutions?

 No.685922

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>>683255
> If teachers such as yourself actually cared about your students you would be fighting to change the school system.
>But you won't, just as it's easier for the petty-bourgeoisie to blame laziness for lack of labor participation, so it is easier for you to blame online classes for lack of student interest.
Fucker im just trying to earn a fucking living
Also, we have measureable difference between irl classes and online classes.
We already work in a good you, you fucking projecting anglo, we work project based, no standardised tests at all, but its hard for anyone to work in teams and learn when youre cooped up at home in a shitty impoverished house with 2 smaller siblings and abusive parents.
Fucking kill yourself, you stuck up cunt. We try our fucking hardest to help the kid getting kicked out in 2 months, or the kid forced to work 8 hour days in their dads shitty shop while also doing a full time study, and youre bemoaning me for not changing the fucking national school system within a year.

 No.685925

>>685922
Based anon, just do your best.

 No.685930

>>685922
Shut the fuck up PMC, you are part of the problem and if you were a real communist you would have already declared a protracted peoples war against the school system. If you cared even the slightest then you would change everything for the better but in your own words "this is my job", you only care about money, not workers(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

 No.685963

>>685930
Unlike idealist retards like you, normal people know that we are bound by RULES that we have to follow, and we can only do SO MUCH within those rules without A FUCKING COMPLETE REVOLUTION OVERTHROWING THE ENTIRE STATE AND IMPLEMENTING RADICAL DEMOCRACY to replace the 100% top down burocrat-run shitshow that the school system is today.

I do more for workers than you do, bruv.

 No.685966

>>685930
We all can't be as brave as you are when you talk back to mommy and daddy everyday.

 No.685968

>>685930
>>683255
Hazbot, please fuck off. You haven't done a single thing in your entire life.


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