Yeah the ad is great and all but this is what is causing the companies to lose their minds and bring people back to the office. Wfh is better as a fight club. FFs stop bragging so much about what other stuff you do at home instead of working.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Yeah I've lived the remote life and these morons bragging about it is how companies shut it down. Why can't people just be quiet and chill about it? Is there clout with it?
Yeah these people think they’re so smart for figuring these things out, so they want to show the world how smart they are. We’ve been doing this a long long time, we’re just not morons bragging about it.
The fact is, if we're meeting targets, no one should give a shit. We shouldn't have to fear what our bosses think.
Yeah but if you brag about this, your targets are gonna skyrocket. Not just for you, but for everybody like you.
I never understood it either. In my department everyone accepts the WFH days as “days off” but no one says the quiet part out loud. It’s even hilarious how everyone pretends they work at home but then know to not bother people who are on their day off. Even our boss is in on it. One time he told me to tell a coworker from another country to see why a non-critical server was appearing as down, so I told him no problem, but I think that the coworker is not in office, so he said never mind then he’ll do it tomorrow.
I think it may be better in the long run to be open about the WFH lifestyle and reach a common understanding. It’s impossible for hundreds of millions of people to keep a secret forever anyway.
The fact of the matter is that it’s impossible to distribute tasks in sufficiently large (i.e., 10+ employee) companies with 100% efficiency, and that’s okay. Employees will always have at least some downtime, and one of the brilliant advantages of remote work is that employees can actually use that time to improve their own lives effectively. The sooner we can get employers to accept that, the better. It’s not like it actually hurts them in any way: employee satisfaction improves retention, and it simply isn’t possible to fully eliminate this downtime anyway.
I agree that it's never helpful to flaunt, and this ad is made by a shitty corporation who's playing both sides to win here...
But what's causing companies to "lose their minds" is the need to justify middle managers, give value to their commercial real estate holdings and to not let workers realize they don't have to live the horrible lives we've lived that keep us just tired, comfortable and distracted enough to not rock the boat.
Basically, the shit corporations are having the meeting to cancel WFH regardless of this advertisement, the only thing that matters is how afraid they are of YOU. How close they came to the line with the recent "just come to work during the plague, maybe you'll die, but profit you know? Also, I have a life insurance policy I your life, so.... Oh, and we're a family!". You have power, tell them WFH fits your life and you feel more productive at work than ever and happier at home than ever. Say it in slack, in emails, in performance reviews, on zoom calls, make them hold that fear that if they try to take it, your gone. Especially if you're an engineer, they need you desperately :)
While I prefer work from home, I recently entertained some onsite and hybrid positions. But the incentive just wasn't there. So this 'return to office' is a lot of posturing. You're spot on about holding the power. The power is, at home, for many roles, you're way more productive. So if you reward the employer with that productivity, they're not going to take it away.
It's the myth companies are pushing to get people back into their super expensive investments.
The good companies I've worked for kind of encourage this for employees that get their work done consistently.
@nieceandtows True. I've worked from home for years, and what works best fore me is maintaining healthy relationships. So if I'm jumping on a plane, I'd make that known. My boss used to offer to buy WIFI on the plane if I wanted it, and I'd usually decline, saying I preferred the downtime.
That's good. I've literally done that, but used a virtual background of my office.