My company just officially closed our office and made everyone permanent WFH. Best news I’ve had all year!

I am LESS productive in the office. It’s distracting. I have to commute. There is less time for hyper focus.

These results don’t surprise at all.

Not surprised, I've seen a lot of people say they are willing to work for less if they can work from home. Those who support WFH will get the best talent cheaper.

I love this news and all but let's remember that Forbes is a hot garbage web magazine that is perpetuating a lot of the corporate narrative about how wfh is dying and how businesses need to bring people back because "culture".

I think they are trying to play both sides of the issue to keep those juicy clicks rolling into their site.

Yep. Employees are happier work harder and produce better work than those who are just going through the motions. Fewer distractions and longer commute means less productivity is possible.

Working in the office is kind of a sham imo, although I won't fault people who do prefer that face-to-face communication with their co-workers.

To absolutely NOBODY’S surprise.

Watch everyone forget that correlation doesn't equal causation when it confirms their biases.

It’ll end up being something also to do with managers of places that permit wfh being more relaxed than in places that prevent it.

Work from home is the future for businesses that 100% operate out of an office, and are basically only an office.

Why pay for a centralized building? Pay for upkeep? Pay taxes for the building?

Especially when the WFH model makes more money? Well, to the wealthy few they realize the soul-crushing work in-person model maintains their class status. This could upset their class structure, and they're terrified of it.

But in a beautiful twist of fate for once, the legal decision to make growth the #1 goal of publicly traded companies is working against the class that instated them.

Alternative headline: Better run companies outperform

Study by company that makes remote work tools finds that remote work is good

The article itself seem to cast doubt on the remote work policies themselves being the cause of the revenue growth, but that the remote work policies were more a symptom of the company's culture (more trust in their employees). Though it could just be a chicken/egg thing, where the only reason these companies are so flexible and trusting with their employees is because the company is already doing well, whereas companies that aren't doing well feel the need to "tighten belts" and start restricting things. To me, it almost seems like the canary in the coal mines. If a company starts restricting work from home, chances are there's something else already going wrong.

Growth-growth-growth, more growth.

Degrow already.

14% increase in productivity going from at will part time remote work (meaning many were full time at the office) to obligatory full time remote work for everyone. That means full time remote work is even better than flexible or whatever other hybrid bullshit employers try to impose on their employees.

Even if they didn't, it's just nicer for everyone involved. Don't you want to work for a company that people like working at?

This proves that people don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.

Who Would Have Thought.

Right?

Well yeah except the un-necessary managers (or the managers being not really needed, etc. YGMP), I guess they are not in a good place right now.

Anyway, this morning I brushed my teeth around 9h45.

Nice

I want to work in a fish tank.

As a mid career employee I love remote work. Reflecting on my early career development, I don't know how I would have gotten to where I am without the in person interaction with more senior folks and my peers.