<story><title>The work-from-home future is destroying bosses&apos; brains</title><url>https://ez.substack.com/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destroying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised this perspective is not made more often. It&amp;#x27;s now much easier to work past 5 or 6pm or whenever you would normally end. Needing to return home to your family is no longer an excuse to stop working because you can be with your family while at work. All it takes is one developer on your team working evenings or weekends for the other developers to feel like they need to be working late too. There&amp;#x27;s also the fact that managers right now are more concerned about whether their team is working enough, rather than being concerned about their team working too much.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>Did it really double, or did boundaries erode? My company has been very clear in that they are measuring our productivity and &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; our working hours. Managers are being instructed to be &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; clear about establishing work&amp;#x2F;life boundaries (with the specifics being based on individual need). We similarly saw an increase in productivity, but the increase was far smaller once normalized for hours worked.</text></item><item><author>leros</author><text>One of the interesting things that happened at my company is that productivity instantly doubled when we started working remotely. The reality at my company is that people are only getting 20 hours or so of work done in the office - the rest is socialization, pointless meetings, lunches, or trying to look busy. When we went home for lockdown and kept working 40 hour weeks, not only did productive output double, but everyone burned out in a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the reality of working from home is that 20-30 hour work weeks need to be acceptable and we should use the rest of our time on non-working things, just like we did in the office, but now that time can be more meaningful to us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>I find myself doing the opposite. It&amp;#x27;s much easier for me to step away at 6pm sharp knowing that if anything happens I can jump back in an instant, vs the worry of being the first to leave the office, and being stuck in a train for a half hour.</text></comment>
<story><title>The work-from-home future is destroying bosses&apos; brains</title><url>https://ez.substack.com/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destroying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised this perspective is not made more often. It&amp;#x27;s now much easier to work past 5 or 6pm or whenever you would normally end. Needing to return home to your family is no longer an excuse to stop working because you can be with your family while at work. All it takes is one developer on your team working evenings or weekends for the other developers to feel like they need to be working late too. There&amp;#x27;s also the fact that managers right now are more concerned about whether their team is working enough, rather than being concerned about their team working too much.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>Did it really double, or did boundaries erode? My company has been very clear in that they are measuring our productivity and &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; our working hours. Managers are being instructed to be &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; clear about establishing work&amp;#x2F;life boundaries (with the specifics being based on individual need). We similarly saw an increase in productivity, but the increase was far smaller once normalized for hours worked.</text></item><item><author>leros</author><text>One of the interesting things that happened at my company is that productivity instantly doubled when we started working remotely. The reality at my company is that people are only getting 20 hours or so of work done in the office - the rest is socialization, pointless meetings, lunches, or trying to look busy. When we went home for lockdown and kept working 40 hour weeks, not only did productive output double, but everyone burned out in a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the reality of working from home is that 20-30 hour work weeks need to be acceptable and we should use the rest of our time on non-working things, just like we did in the office, but now that time can be more meaningful to us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>As someone who has done full time WFH for more than 5 years one skill you need to pick up is the ability to shut down around 5-6pm and avoid work on the weekends, which actually takes some self-discipline.</text></comment>