Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier

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Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

A hard truth is that if you see an executive pushing return to office, you know one of two things about them. One of the following is true.

  • They are terrible at finance and don’t understand the sunk-cost fallacy. They have to keep using that building they bought; they’ve spent so much on it and simply can’t bring themselves to sell it.

  • They’re a sexual molester. They’re someone that uses the power of their position to coerce sex out of their employees. Fucking their employees is their primary motivation for not retiring early right now. You can’t coerce your secretary to give you a blowjob over Zoom.

  • That’s really it. They’re either bad at business or they’re a sexual predator. If you see an executive pushing return to office, be sure to ask them which one of these they are. Because they’re definitely one or the other.

  • Tradition.
  • Belief that work-from-home is less efficient.
  • So

  • They’re morons and terrible at business.
  • Remote didn’t work as well for the company.
  • Remote didn’t work as well for any number of people at that company.
  • Found the executive.
    We have work from home, i have gone to the office twice this year. But it is true it didn’t work for everyone. Some left because of isolation factor, some fired because without anyone watching they just could not self motivate. In some case in-office meetings are way more productive, and you get those moments when a coworker overhears your convo and chimes in with something relevent that you would never have connection on in WFH
    “Isolation factor” = you talk to people all day and don’t actually do anything productive

    I was being sensitive, we had some employees struggle mentally with being alone and without interaction. Some people did not have partners at home, so work was their contact with the world. With that gone, issues arose.

    But I get your point, I prefer work from home because I get twice as much done without the daily interruptions of "Hello, how are you, wanna see pictures of my jetski, did you watch the game? (Me: game?, I don’t even know what game they mean)