Google employees 'more productive working from home'

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To think we will see most people who can work from home WFH in the next 2 years?

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/11/19/google-employees-productive-working-home/

Do you prefer WFH or going to your workplace? Or a mixture of both?

I find working for home more difficult. People expect you to be constantly available, being in a meeting isn’t an excuse anymore because you still have access to emails and instant messaging.

Can I suggest that you set some boundaries for yourself. Use your diary to block out time when you can't be disturbed, stick to it by not looking at emails/ responding to IM (there is a do not disturb mode on IM), during these hours and be vocal with your colleagues about your regular daily unavailable time.

WFH every time.

I hope WFH becomes the norm. It makes travelling to work so much more pleasant for the rest of us!

And with Covid restrictions everywhere, I’m actually delighted to be back going to work. It’s somewhere to go, and you meet people.

Wfh is the best

I hate working from home. It's really fucking dull.

I miss the commute, leaving the house for several hours a day, the city centre with the shops and the buzz. I miss going out to buy my lunch, and having to wear proper clothes and shoes and make up (I still do this at home sometimes but its not the same). I miss other people and the social events and random chats. I miss coming home and being glad to see my family, instead of sick of the sight of them.

I also get more done in the office as I don't have the kids there every day from 3pm, and you can have a proper meeting instead of online ones where someone always gets connection problems or can't hear properly or whatever. And you can go to colleagues for help if you're stuck with something.

I've been wfh since March and have had no choice in it, I've stopped thinking whether I like it or not - I just do it and I'm very busy all day every day and very productive. I can't see how I'd get as much done in the office. For starters I always had a lunch break, interruptions from colleagues, having to walk for the loo (further than a few metres) or to a meeting room on another floor.

We've had our best results this year despite covid hitting the service and we're a fairly new team, me and the new manager have both had to learn our jobs remotely.

Would like to go in the office when we can but I think by then I'll have worked from home for at least a year and had the most enjoyable, successful year professionally so home working can't be so bad.

Some of my work is very technical and does include writing code so I think that does help at home although I can't ask my colleagues to take a quick look at it, so will no doubt be missing out on some good advice.

@cologne4711

Sooner the office is open and life begins again the better. This has been the most demotivating year of my career

I think the significant thing there is the word "career".

I think those with jobs like WFH, those with careers want to be in the office to make sure they are noticed for their next step.

My job is very much a career, I have worked from home on a part time basis for a long time, in my industry working from home has been fairly common for a long time.

It's very individual, isn't it? I hope employers keep that in mind when making decisions about the long term. People's productivity and mental well being could really suffer due to the wrong decision being made.

Personally I like it. My work is very detail-orientated, and I can concentrate better at home than in my large, open-plan office (in which I was always freezing cold thanks t9 the air con). I don't miss my relatively long commute either. And there's more to do, see and buy at lunch time for me: my office is on an industrial estate with a canteen and a couple of fast food places; nowhere much to go at lunch time if you wanted some fresh air.