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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Miraclemomma][/quote]
Let's be honest, productivity at home is not even close to productivy in office.
She knows it, you know it, we all know it.
Enough BS people. Show up for work or expect to be fired, in not too far of a future.
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This simply is not true. So you really want to sit in traffic all day? Sit through hours of small talk, waiting at a printer, looking for food in unsanitary work cafeterias?

So much of what we do at work is filler. Between commuting, meetings for people to brag about their vacations/kids/pets, and all kinds of office politics that usually start from silly or mindless unintentional comment?

Telework is the best thing for companies. They can cut real estate, overhead, and the already push it off on the employee. If a company cannot measure productivity, then they have a bad system to start with. Work has changed. Slavery used to be the norm, child labor and even certain dangerous jobs. Daily commuting into an office is just not something worth doing anymore. [/quote]

But WHAT ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY CAKE?[/quote]

I can't believe I'm saying this - but the birthday cakes DO mean something! They fit in with an overall sense of cohesion as a team. I definitely knew my coworkers better, and had more productive relationships, when I worked in an office. Going out for lunch with people, getting to stop by their office to chat and share ideas, all that. Online can provide some of those same things but for sure not all of them.

That said there's tradeoffs! And for the most part I gladly give up those personal connections in order to be home all day with my pets. Personally I am not more productive in an office - I am equally unproductive in an office and at home; just give me benchmarks and projects and I will do them for pete's sake.

It's a really obnoxiously written op-ed even if there's some nuggets of value in there. I guess the biggest value is just hearing one CEO basically say out loud that employees have zero value to her and will be replaced or demoted when she likes. We all know that's how it works, it's helpful to hear it out loud. See how much loyalty she shows? That's how much loyalty we should show, too.[/quote]

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