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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 09:16

This is just tiresome.

Dear companies claiming that WFH is damaging productivity, that's a YOU problem, not an US problem.

If you can't manage people without being in the same room as them, with the myriad of communication methods available, you can not do YOUR job. FFS.

And if a journalist could please ask Lord Rose how many hours he spent in the office when he was working, that would be grand.

/someone who has worked from home for decades

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qww8xdvnwo

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Written by Judith on 2025-01-20 at 09:25

@eclectech I started WFH, fulltime, in Mar 20 due to the pandemic. Like many people I found the pandemic difficult for my mental health. During a Teams meeting with my manager I told him that I was finding I was unproductive after lunch so was taking a longer break and then working into the evening. He told me that if I could not be trusted to work when I should be working he would come up with a system to monitor me. This did not improve my productivity or mental health.

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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 09:30

@aroundthehills Oh good grief, that's awful. What a terrible manager. A fine example of someone who couldn't do his job. I hope things have improved since.

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Written by Judith on 2025-01-20 at 09:33

@eclectech

That was only one example of his "management" style.

Long story, cut short: I raised a grievance; neither of us work there anymore.

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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 09:35

@aroundthehills Ooof. That sounds like an improvement anyhow.

I am honestly astounded at how many of these business people commenting on WFH don't realise how they're exposing their own inadequacies to the world.

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Written by Judith on 2025-01-20 at 10:00

@eclectech Indeed.

I believe it takes good management to lead a hybrid team. Then again, it takes good management to lead ANY team!

(I'm using the word "Management" as an all-encompassing word to cover leadership, communication, prioritisation of resources etc etc)

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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 10:08

@aroundthehills Yep, absolutely this.

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Written by Chris Godwin on 2025-01-20 at 10:52

@eclectech I'm sure CEOs with palatial offices and PAs to do everything for them and private limos for commuting feel no problem working from the office.

And yet these are the same people who think 50 hot-desks for 60 in an office people is better for productivity than people working from home where they can have an actual office setup...

Some might abuse WFH, but those are the same people who, when in an office, do no actual work and just gossip and drain the tea supply

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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 11:17

@Chrisgodwin Yep, absolutely to all of this.

And they'll also be the same CEOs who spend time on the golf course and call it work.

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Written by Fiona Craig on 2025-01-20 at 11:20

@eclectech Aye. My husband works at a company that got rid of all its offices during the lockdown, 5 years permanently WFH, with a team spread across a mean of 5 countries* in 3 time zones, which he successfully manages.

Funnily enough, it's not hard if you use modern management techniques instead of mid 20th century ones.

• according to FIFA it is 6, but according to flag shaggers it could be as few as 4

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Written by eclectech on 2025-01-20 at 11:23

@FionaCraig Excellent! Weird how they never seem to talk to people like your husband isn't it? Tsk.

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-20 at 11:30

@FionaCraig @eclectech

No doubt you'll remember the hours of Financial Times reading that was done every day, by very highly paid staff, in our old office Fiona!

Love the footnote btw. 👩🏽‍🍳😘

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Written by Fiona Craig on 2025-01-20 at 14:47

@jbenjamint @eclectech Indeed, a ubiquitous ritual in most financial services offices, and which my nephew tells me continues to this day! Huge billowing walls of pink newsprint with the bleps of deeply furrowed brows as far as the eye can see... perhaps this is the source of our national productivity crisis, just ban the FT 😉

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Written by NormanDunbar on 2025-01-20 at 13:31

@eclectech I was lucky. I had an accident and seriously damaged my leg. The calf muscle came off if anyone is interested! My work did everything they could to help.

Someone came to my house with equipment to WFH, and set it up. I wanted to WFH while ill by the way!

After a couple of weeks I had a call from my boss to ask if I wanted to always WFH as I was much more contactable and productive as there were no interruptions etc in the office.

Result for everyone.

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