This remote work happened due to a pandemic, not through voluntary change. The stress and other concerns of a massive plague likely had substantial effects on productivity.
Would be interested to see your data sets and how you accounted for variables. WFH now can’t be compared with during the pandemic. During the pandemic you had everyone home, parents were trying to be teachers, caregivers for elderly. The fact that you found the quality didn’t suffer is extremely positive. Yes it may have taken more time to get there as people were dealing with so much during that time. To this day we are not training managers to manage a remote team, you need effective leadership to make remote teams work but when they work it is a positive for both the employees and the company
The productivity decline can be mitigated with proper management. Most employees can take a >15 - 20% pay cut anyways and still come out ahead due to better tax efficiency plus cheaper rent and travel costs. The company can also cut office rent costs. So all-in-all meaningful productivity loss should only affect mismanaged teams as remote work is more cost efficient for both parties.
I am so happy that probably the best clinical professor at Booth, has found an area where his significant insights and abilities to discern the important factors is giving him a broader audience - that will be better off for hearing it.
Why can’t you just let people live? Ffs, ppl don’t earn enough to get a house, car, married or have children WFH has saved them from the stress of toxic work culture/colleagues, cost of the daily frustrating commute and spending money on lunch. When it comes to productivity many legit reports say ppl end up working overtime since they don’t have to worry about getting home and doing their chores. But ofcourse why should the common man get a breather we need to have our boot on his neck at all times.
Obviously productivity drops if you can't afford a home with a propper office space to work in... if only we lived in a society that tried to maximize human wellbeing rather than operacional efficiency to increase profit margins. I am sure they did the study well but they're still trying to answer dumb questions.
This remote work happened due to a pandemic, not through voluntary change. The stress and other concerns of a massive plague likely had substantial effects on productivity.
Would be interested to see your data sets and how you accounted for variables. WFH now can’t be compared with during the pandemic. During the pandemic you had everyone home, parents were trying to be teachers, caregivers for elderly. The fact that you found the quality didn’t suffer is extremely positive. Yes it may have taken more time to get there as people were dealing with so much during that time. To this day we are not training managers to manage a remote team, you need effective leadership to make remote teams work but when they work it is a positive for both the employees and the company
The productivity decline can be mitigated with proper management. Most employees can take a >15 - 20% pay cut anyways and still come out ahead due to better tax efficiency plus cheaper rent and travel costs. The company can also cut office rent costs. So all-in-all meaningful productivity loss should only affect mismanaged teams as remote work is more cost efficient for both parties.
Your mom can't work remotely. Her business is very much in person
I am so happy that probably the best clinical professor at Booth, has found an area where his significant insights and abilities to discern the important factors is giving him a broader audience - that will be better off for hearing it.
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Why can’t you just let people live? Ffs, ppl don’t earn enough to get a house, car, married or have children WFH has saved them from the stress of toxic work culture/colleagues, cost of the daily frustrating commute and spending money on lunch. When it comes to productivity many legit reports say ppl end up working overtime since they don’t have to worry about getting home and doing their chores. But ofcourse why should the common man get a breather we need to have our boot on his neck at all times.
Obviously productivity drops if you can't afford a home with a propper office space to work in... if only we lived in a society that tried to maximize human wellbeing rather than operacional efficiency to increase profit margins. I am sure they did the study well but they're still trying to answer dumb questions.