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In Reply to: RE: IBM forcing employees back into the office, as did Yahoo. posted by AbeCollins on May 19, 2017 at 15:30:26
I work from home fairly regularly these days but it definitely has a big downside. I don't learn from the people I work with nearly as much as I would if we were all in the same place. The people who love working from home are generally people who are content where they are. They don't want to climb. People who want to learn, work their way into a better position want to go in. I think a company that normalizes a lot of WFH ends up with too many people who aren't growing and that means stagnation for the company as well as the employees.
It's hard to figure out what is important and get a good big picture understanding if you don't work in the same office as your coworkers. It's harder to be engaged on a conference call than it is in a live meeting. It's harder to remember what was said. I think it's really bad for young people. It's unmotivating, stifles innovation. It's incredibly convenient though, and I think that's why so many people claim it's wonderful even though it's really only good in pretty limited situations.
I expect that companies that force people to come back to the office will end up losing a lot of selfish old-timers who aren't interested in learning from the people they work with and don't want to teach anybody anything either. I think an awful lot of companies have far too much of that element anyway and will be better off.
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I get a lot more done leaving valuable free time not spent in traffic which was horrible at my last position. :)
Not to mention that when you work from home they end up getting way more hours worked out of you. Because your home is your office, there is an expectation that you are on-call 7x24. There is some truth to what ornery said, but categoricals as he stated things seldom, if ever, exist in the real world. It takes all kinds of employees.
Yeah, daily commuting 15-20 miles sucks big time. I once endured it when I got a government contract for a 3-year project. 18 miles to downtown Dallas typically 5 days a week. I don't know how people do that longterm. And think of how much gasoline is wasted just sitting in traffic - millions of cars and SUVs burning fuel not going anywhere. It doesn't make any sense. And, then you've got the moron/idiot/yahoo drivers who screw it up even worse by causing accidents every morning and afternoon. What the hell is wrong with some people?!
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