WFH Productivity Debate

my remote only company is way more productive than my previous in-person company, so there’s the counter anecdote to your anecdote

neah, it's productivity related. when no one is working after WFH, then it's pretty clear the experiment failed and people need to be back in their offices.if productivity stayed the same, no-one would have said anything.

This is going to get a lot of hate, but the common refrain about WFH is "my productivity is up." That might be true, but it doesn't mean you're producing the right things, and I've found that harder to do remotely.

I am not sure why you, and others in this thread, keep stating a performance boost. Workers claim a performance boost while actual performance suffers pretty greatlyhttps://fortune.com/2023/07/06/remote-workers-less-productiv...

does productivity compose ? because reports of WFH improving productivity by 22% would make a nice bump on top.

There's a lot of research suggesting that people overestimate their productivity in remote working environments and that in general, max productivity comes from small, in-person working environments.

This is my experience. My productivity on coding is a lot hire remote. On many leadership / management-style tasks, it's a lot lower.Come to think of it, I'm wondering if that's where the split comes in. Upper management sees their productivity go down -- on what's fundamentally an interpersonal endeavour -- while individual contributors see theirs go up -- on what's primarily solitary ones. As a result, there is friction with top-down work-from-office mandates.

There are widespread reports from companies that their employees are proving to be more productive working from home during Covid-19 than they were in the office.Based on that, it would be wrong to jump to the conclusion the "most" employees need constant management in an office and will do the minimum possible at home.This is why there's such a big debate about WFH now. Having tried it at scale in a forced situation, turns out it actually works ok for many jobs in t

I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. Then when it isn't required anymore, they want everyone back in the office for...productivity. My guess is that most employers really have no way to measure if an employee is being productive or not so managers are just reporting what makes them look good...and now we are back to where managers will look better with lots of people running around th

counterpoint - everyone's company is competing against every other competitor who is also doing WFH. they're all on the same playing field. if folks think F2F helps productivity, they'll force that, especially if they know that some competition will stay with WFH.