Nah, be honest with yourself, that’s not the reason.
The simple reality is that most people aren’t self-motivated enough to maintain the level of productivity at home that they maintain in the office.
Communication is more difficult.
Keeping an eye on your employees is easier when they’re literally within eyesight.
Training is easier when you have another person close by who can lead you through it.
It’s likely that, in the long-term, we’ll end up with a hybrid system, where those that prove themselves responsible enough to WFH, will get to WFH, while the rest will be back in offices, which is the exact same thing we had prior to Covid.
The companies I worked for let me WFH every day(aside from one weekly meeting) for years before Covid, but I routinely did 3x the work of other people, even as a junior developer.
The problem isn’t with the companies, the problem is human nature, we don’t want to work, so we use every opportunity to wiggle out of it, on average, at least.
We don’t want to work to make someone else rich. That doesn’t mean we don’t want to work. I’m commenting right now using an OS that’s developed by thousands who worked on it for free.
Make the work meaningful and fulfilling, and you most likely wont even have to pay someone to do it.
For example, I live to tinker with and repair electronics. I’d probably be more than happy to diagnose a broken Xbox or TV for you once in a while, because I love doing it.
Well that’s wonderful and all, but doesn’t really disprove my point, we were talking about specific jobs that people were doing prior to the pandemic, not the job you wish it was. If the job was meaningful and fulfilling, you wouldn’t mind doing it in the office.
Nah, be honest with yourself, that’s not the reason.
It’s likely that, in the long-term, we’ll end up with a hybrid system, where those that prove themselves responsible enough to WFH, will get to WFH, while the rest will be back in offices, which is the exact same thing we had prior to Covid.
The companies I worked for let me WFH every day(aside from one weekly meeting) for years before Covid, but I routinely did 3x the work of other people, even as a junior developer.
The problem isn’t with the companies, the problem is human nature, we don’t want to work, so we use every opportunity to wiggle out of it, on average, at least.
We don’t want to work to make someone else rich. That doesn’t mean we don’t want to work. I’m commenting right now using an OS that’s developed by thousands who worked on it for free.
Make the work meaningful and fulfilling, and you most likely wont even have to pay someone to do it.
For example, I live to tinker with and repair electronics. I’d probably be more than happy to diagnose a broken Xbox or TV for you once in a while, because I love doing it.
Well that’s wonderful and all, but doesn’t really disprove my point, we were talking about specific jobs that people were doing prior to the pandemic, not the job you wish it was. If the job was meaningful and fulfilling, you wouldn’t mind doing it in the office.
I find my job meaningful and fulfilling. I’d rather not go back to the office.
My company killed its lease on a few floors of our main office and moved that money to employee travel for occasional office visits (~1 per quarter).