Work from home - forever.
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@Jolly said in Work from home - forever.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Work from home - forever.:
@Jolly said in Work from home - forever.:
You have enough problems with accountability.
No, you don't. For a shitload and ever-increasing number of tasks, the "accountability" is literally both real-time and scheduled. Any manager who doesn't understand this has a skills issue.
That said, entirely depends on the job, doesn't it? LD brings up some good points about federal workers, and I tend to agree.
I think there are 3 categories, personally: jobs in which WFH is impossible, jobs in which it's possible but a bad idea, and jobs in which it's not only possible but a good idea.
The problem's in those last 2 groups. Out-of-touch managers get them confused, as do young kids who aren't yet conscientious enough.
Bullshit.
I lived in a LEAN environment, ruled by the God of Sigma Six. We fucking counted hand motions. A decent size medical lab is a business thar revolves around production. A flow of information that constitutes 70% of the medical decisions in a typical patient's chart.
That information flow must continue, without abate, no matter what the circumstances and it must continue efficiently. Whether it be adverse weather such as a hurricane, staffing issues or somebody putting a bullet through the goddamn window.
Because somewhere there's a gutshot OB headed to surgery, a kid with a hot appendix, a drunk screaming from pancreatitis or an oncologist breathing down the path's neck who's casting a grim eye at the histo tech.
All the numbers are wonderful and I could look at production literally broken down to the working minute. But numbers do not tell everything. Sam Walton believed in MBWA (management by walking around) and if he walked in off the street and caught a manager in his office twice in a row, he fired him.
Some people are more efficient in some pairings or groups more than others. Some work quality can suffer nonquantifiable parameters. Some work solutions are achieved by coworkers brainstorming in the moment.
Different people need different impetus to achieve their best work. The best way to cipher out the right buttons is to know and observe a person in real time, in real life.
Not every job is a medical lab. None of what you're describing has much bearing on anything I do. Matter of fact, working remotely is heaps more efficient than anything done in-person.
Prior to Figma, asset creation was a linear process: get the images from the photo team or the illustrator or whatever, get it over to the designer who's also waiting on copy, then over to the CD. Everyone works in a fucking silo and no one knows where anything is. Now everybody works together in real time, including the CD. People have conversations while everyone's doing their part looking at the same layout. No one's upstream or downstream. And now you have fun, crazy shit going on like photographers weighing in on design options because they're telling you in real time what the situation is and what layout modules would better fit the subject. CDs telling the print folks which stock to use without a test because the illustrator just finalized the palette.
This is something that cannot be done in person. What are people going to do, crowd around one screen like it's 90s desktop publishing? Ideate in a huddle room with one sorry asshole making halfass mockups on a laptop while everyone else thinks shit up? The only way to do it is for everyone to look at their own screen with their own keyboard and mouse/stylus. Which is exactly what you have while working remotely.
I've done thousands of jobs in this way. It's not even close which is better for both quality and efficiency.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Work from home - forever.:
Ideate
Jesus.
Not every job is a medical lab.
You definitely want those guys working from home. The temptation to snort chemicals would almost certainly become overwhelming. I have enough trouble resisting the lure of cleaning fluid as it is.
