We have the technology to easily work from remote locations including homes. I, for example, spend three days of every week working remotely from client offices (but I’m not allowed to work from home). It’s not the technology holding me back, it’s people and company culture.
Maintaining large office buildings with the same working hours, and workers spending an hour or two daily traveling through polluting traffic does not seem to make sense. But many "{mo(t) companies would rather see workers sitting in cubicles in an office. What is crazy, is believing those cubicle workers are actually busy being 100% productive! Especially when companies cram those workers into open office plan workspaces. The theory of open plan areas is better productivity and communication – if so, why don’t the management who decide this, then not also work in open-plan offices with their staff There is no evidence to actually support this and most workers end up wearing headphones to try concentrate.
Workers seem to realise all of this so sometimes I wonder if companies have not hired the wrong managers?
#productivity #remoteworking
#^If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely, you shouldn’t have hired them in the first place
We need to reward the work employees do instead of the amount of time they are seen sitting in the office.