Do you ever WFH in bed?

[Spocyfriedchi]

I have an office job. All I need is my laptop. Yes a big screen helps, but my job is mostly excel and then some word and PowerPoint.

Someday (especially when I have anxiety) I like working in bed and feeling all cosy.

Does anyone else do this?

No, it is to weed out the piss-takers. An unpleasant but necessary role of managers.

Working from bed, like working on your phone while walking the dog, or taking calls from soft play area, add to the perception of low productivity. If this is tolerated, it will send a signal to other employees this is allowed. Therefore, if other employees are not piss-taking, they should see that the piss-takers are being dealt with.

Otherwise, the result is that the employer asks everybody to come into the office, which nobody wants. It is called balancing everyone's interests.

You do half spout nonsense. Don't think that will go unnoticed.

Okay. Thanks. Noticed by whom? I was hoping I spouted nonsense fully. But since a sense of humour bypass during COVID, I haven't been firing on all cylinders. Indeed, I often WFH in bed these days. Albeit with beautiful eyebrows.

That's why I said it's the lazy few.....

There are people on SM instead of working, they say so on similar threads.

So not sure what your point is.

Precisely, and threads with such posts aren't helping the argument to keep wfh.

🤣🤣, true.

Indeed and I’m not going to fire myself.

But I don’t find working in bed to be unproductive. If I had an employee doing it it really wouldn’t bother me as long as they got the work done.

I've already expressed my disappointment to only be half spouting nonsense. There's no need for the Mumsnet emoji mafia to be coming after me with their comments about noticing my my less than adequate nonsense output or their duo of pmsl faces. Which I imagine is done pretty easily from bed. So well done you. You can languish permanently. Until the bed sores kick in, I guess.

I just assumed it was another vehemently anti WFH thread? Which is why I've been facetious. Because it's flagrantly obvious that it doesn't matter where people work if they're good at their job, right? If employers are concerned about performance, they will manage people out. It really is that simple.

I see. Pour encourager les autres. Great management technique, that. Really helps with management/employee relations and morale.

Emoji mafia,
Coming after you,
Languishing?

You go & do that. 🤪

I mostly work from my dining table but have to sit on the bed if the kids are home for some reason. Occasionally even use my daughter’s bed if baby is napping in my room 😂good thing I’ve got a background on teams as definitely wouldn’t look professional surrounded by teddies!

I thought by 'giving legal advice' you were a solicitor. Given that you don't spout nonsense, I accept this was a hasty and ill-advised judgement - without basis - and apologise unreservedly.

Good grief. *Sighs"

You are clearly one of those managers.

D'you know what, you wouldn't even know!

Imagine a disciplinary for working from bed! HR would piss themselves laughing!!

Not usually but I did yesterday as I was hanging.

No, I don't. I have occasionally worked on my bed for an hour if the room I usually use isn't free. I like to get up, showered and dressed when WFH or it has a negative impact on my mood.

You know HR works for the company. It is not a union for employees who piss-take.

If you feel you are productive, I am sure you will no shame in turning on your camera and letting your manager know.

I am in fact in the process of working with HR to get rid of a piss taker (also a manager no less). I don't know if this person works from their bed, but I would not be surprised if they did not even get out of it sometimes. It comes with the territory.

This insistence on equating working from bed with piss taking is quite fascinating.

Obviously there's no way anyone could have a computer based job where they don't use Excel or Powerpoint...

What are they? Most of my work is with plain text files.

What on earth do you mean by "define" in the context of eyebrows?

We are going around in circles now, aren't we?

I didn't mean to start an argument.

Most things on mnet descend into an argument these days @Spocyfriedchi 😂.

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