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Eliminating work from home won’t make workers more productive.

Every time I see a thread where one person gets their work done in half the day and spends the rest of the time doing what they want. There is always one commenter who will say something like: “tHiS iS wHy tHeY wAnT tO eLimInAtE WFH.” Getting rid of remote and forcing people to come back to the office isn't going to make people suddenly want to be productive all shift. From what I've read about desk jobs is that a lot of them are only 3 hours of real work and 5 or 6 hours of looking busy. People waste a lot of time roughly the same amout if they were to work in the office. This all reminds me of that one twitter pic I saw where one guys boss was threatening to bring everyone back to the office because he thought people were pretending to work from…


Every time I see a thread where one person gets their work done in half the day and spends the rest of the time doing what they want. There is always one commenter who will say something like: “tHiS iS wHy tHeY wAnT tO eLimInAtE WFH.”

Getting rid of remote and forcing people to come back to the office isn't going to make people suddenly want to be productive all shift. From what I've read about desk jobs is that a lot of them are only 3 hours of real work and 5 or 6 hours of looking busy. People waste a lot of time roughly the same amout if they were to work in the office. This all reminds me of that one twitter pic I saw where one guys boss was threatening to bring everyone back to the office because he thought people were pretending to work from home. When the guy was saying he has been doing that in the office for years.

As long as the work is getting completed in a timely manner that should be all that matters.

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