<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benbristow</author><text>Just asking this as a talking point.&lt;p&gt;Does a quick interruption that unblocks me and allows me to continue working outweigh allowing you to finish your thing first? Because maybe you&amp;#x27;re unblocked but I&amp;#x27;m blocked by you now, and the thing that&amp;#x27;s actually blocking me. So only 1 person is able to work.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now&lt;p&gt;But your need for an instant answer often derails my work flow. I can get a lot more done now that I am not being interrupted as frequently and can address questions once I have wrapped up what I am doing or at least have time to write down where specifically I stopped.</text></item><item><author>benbristow</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard enough in software engineering IMHO.&lt;p&gt;What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now&lt;p&gt;* Send a Slack message&amp;#x2F;email and wait an arbitrary amount of time for a response.&lt;p&gt;* Organise a Skype&amp;#x2F;Teams&amp;#x2F;whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.&lt;p&gt;I spend a stupid amount of time having blocked stories&amp;#x2F;tasks because I need to clarify some criteria&amp;#x2F;parts of it and the people I need to speak to are difficult to reach because they&amp;#x27;re busy&amp;#x2F;AFK.</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&amp;#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.&lt;p&gt;Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&amp;#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&amp;#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&amp;#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mym1990</author><text>Somewhat anecdotal I guess, but at any given point I have 5-10 things that I &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; be working on. So if I come across something that I am truly blocked on and need more information, then I ask for that info through appropriate channels and move on to priority thing 2.&lt;p&gt;Understandably this can lead to a lot of context switching, but so can someone swiveling in a chair to ask a question or go down a rabbit hole. You can optimize the process a bit by shifting perspective and having a path to follow if you get blocked, rather than lamenting on how you&amp;#x27;re blocked(not you in particular, but people in general).&lt;p&gt;*I feel like it is somewhat rare that a person only ever has 1 specific thing to work on.</text></comment>
<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benbristow</author><text>Just asking this as a talking point.&lt;p&gt;Does a quick interruption that unblocks me and allows me to continue working outweigh allowing you to finish your thing first? Because maybe you&amp;#x27;re unblocked but I&amp;#x27;m blocked by you now, and the thing that&amp;#x27;s actually blocking me. So only 1 person is able to work.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now&lt;p&gt;But your need for an instant answer often derails my work flow. I can get a lot more done now that I am not being interrupted as frequently and can address questions once I have wrapped up what I am doing or at least have time to write down where specifically I stopped.</text></item><item><author>benbristow</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard enough in software engineering IMHO.&lt;p&gt;What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now&lt;p&gt;* Send a Slack message&amp;#x2F;email and wait an arbitrary amount of time for a response.&lt;p&gt;* Organise a Skype&amp;#x2F;Teams&amp;#x2F;whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.&lt;p&gt;I spend a stupid amount of time having blocked stories&amp;#x2F;tasks because I need to clarify some criteria&amp;#x2F;parts of it and the people I need to speak to are difficult to reach because they&amp;#x27;re busy&amp;#x2F;AFK.</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&amp;#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.&lt;p&gt;Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&amp;#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&amp;#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&amp;#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>&amp;gt; Does a quick interruption that unblocks me and allows me to continue working outweigh allowing you to finish your thing first?&lt;p&gt;No, absolutely not.  As my coworker you have no right to my time, at all.  Certainly not on-demand.&lt;p&gt;You are in no position to prioritize my time, especially in the context of you finishing your task.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Because maybe you&amp;#x27;re unblocked but I&amp;#x27;m blocked by you now, and the thing that&amp;#x27;s actually blocking me.&lt;p&gt;No, you are blocked by whatever you are blocked by.  Solving your problems is &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; problem.  Not mine.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So only 1 person is able to work.&lt;p&gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t do your job without also consuming my time in parallel what exactly are you contributing?  If you are blocked and need input then go work on something else until you can get the input.  This is elementary time management and respect for your coworkers.</text></comment>