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?

Nothing shameful about pillows and a headboard. Every home has it. You can even turn around slightly to plump them before a call.

Come on, own it.

For training, you are watching, not typing. I often move to the sofa in my office for a long meeting or a training session. It's more comfortable than the operator's chair.

I usually wear my dressing gown over my clothes to keep warm.

No, absolutely not. It’s this kind of post that will mean WFH is removed from those who really need it like me. Employers trust me to be professional so no, bed is a no no!

Just be aware of what impression you are giving to all the other people on the call.

Have you worked in every possible environment, role and organisation? Or could it possibly be that your experiences are necessarily limited, and so viewing everyone's work environment through the lens of your past history could similarly be limited?

I've had many meetings where what I bring to the table isn't my ability to read words off of multiple monitors but my decades of experience and knowledge. Where I happen to be sitting at the time makes no difference to that.

I just can't work properly like that . My job involved a lot of excel and word/Google docs and powerpoint documents and switching between large screens of data and a laptop screen just doesn't cut it for most of my deep work. It is fine for the odd email but even if I am just writting a report or putting together a summary presentaton of my data analysis, I am constantly switching screens to pick up things and check data before writing the summary. This is much easier, quicker and less error prone if I have a large sceen and preferably two screens, though a large screen and laptop screen with do . When I am actually processing, cleaning and manipulating the data, this is even more true. I simply cannot work properly and be effective/efficient in bed. I need a desk and a proper set up . I can't really even work very effectively on just a laptop at a desk without a proper large screen . This may be just me I suppose but it is nonetheless true. Whenever I have tried it, I spend most of the next day fising the mistakes I made so definitely not worth it for me

And I LOVE staying in bed, even all day if I can, just not to work

You are welcome to work for yourself with your extensive knowledge and experience.

Couldn't make it up. Yet again, a thread about women wfh and taking the proverbial.

Needing two screens to work, but making do with one as you want to stay in bed..... so obviously less productive.

Falling asleep during meetings and odd jobs around the house.

Companies folding, services at an all time low as no one takes pride in their work.

Then people wonder why companies want people back in the office.

No wonder people keep posting complaining about being asked back, they'd rather be in bed!

Exactly.

Unfortunately it's the lazy few that spoil it for everyone else.

Some on here claiming to be working yet posting endlessly.

Ask the poster who said it?
Personally, I used to have an admin job, largely office-based, in an educational environment.Occasionally in quiet times out of term if I wasn’t feeling 100% but wasn’t actually flat-on-my-back unwell, I’d work from home (bed or sofa) doing things like updating records.
So the moral of the story is that, even if all the jobs YOU’VE ever done required more than one screen, a mouse etc, not everyone’s job necessarily does.

I see your server racks and raise you a) PC rollouts into offices and computer labs and b) instrument installation in geological labs. Luckily, I've only ever had to be vertical in data centres so far.

And yes, both involve a lot of lying on the floor trying to wedge my arm into slightly-too-small spaces to feed cables.

I make sure that my dressing gown is open enough that it's obvious that I am actually dressed!

Again, even if they had excellent productivity and no fault could be found with their work?
So it is just a matter of arbitrary principle?
Ive just posted above about a company of mine that didn’t have a problem with me working from bed. Actually my boss in that job would occasionally stay home and work from bed too (he was an academic doing marking etc).
The college did not crash and burn.

I am not saying it cannot be done on a laptop in bed, I am saying it is less productive than if you were sitting at a desk.

The people who work for me do 'admin' jobs as well. They'd better not be in bed because I'd be picking up their careless mistakes and giving them a poor review.

When I'm onsite, I'm less available than when WFH because I'm going from job to job. My onsite work doesn't involve much sitting at my desk.

You make me laugh by just how much you don't get it.

I have to get up,have a shower and get into my car and drive to be productive. Cannot imagine lying in bed to actually work!

What if they didn’t make ‘careless mistakes’, though? That’s what I’m trying to clarify: you seem to be saying that simply knowing your staff were sitting in bed to work would be enough to haul in senior management and HR and get them bollocked.

Nobody's work is perfect. People can always do more.

If I knew my report was working from bed, I would attribute their mistakes and any dip in productivity to the less than ideal work environment. So I'd ask them to come in.

Moral of the story. Don't work from bed.

It's going to blow your mind that I've patched and restarted servers and updated the config on workstations using a cellphone with a kickstand, an SSH terminal app, and a bluetooth keyboard.

My work-issued laptop had just died with a soft "pop" and a slight whiff of capacitor electrolyte, never to boot again.

No, I would ask them to not work in bed. And if they insisted, I would ask them to come into the office to work. If they did not, I would inform HR and my manager that I would like to start a disciplinary action with their support. Then I would implement it.

Working in bed has a deleterious effect on the morale of other employees who do not take the piss. As a manager, I am doing my job.

I've carefully avoided the kind of employer who prioritises image over substance. In my last job, we had staff more senior than me coming to work in cargo shorts and flipflops.

It's shown multiple screens increase productivity. I would not be happy to know someone was WFH on a laptop screen only. That's super inefficient and I'm paying for 100% effort not 60%. If you're not well, take a sick day, don't work at part capacity. Doing PowerPoint and excel on a laptop screen is extremely slow.

It's posts like these with others agreeing they do they same that kills WFH for the rest of us. No matter how many people work hard at home, the perceived slacking off by working in bed or on the sofa in front of the telly, doing housework in work hours, is what's driving the push for people to be back in the office.

I work in a professional setting that is external client-facing and has international offices is all I can say. You would not be the right fit but you don't want to anyway if you think this is all 'image'.

Most of us manage to fulfil our roles because we work outside normal working hours!

So if there is any shortfall inside normal working hours, it gets made up for by working outside of normal working hours!