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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WFH has nuked productivity at my company, in two specific ways. First, it has multiplied time in meetings by two- or threefold. This means that there is far less time for actual work. We now have many managers who don't do anything other than receive requests are reroute them to others via email, PowerPoint, and Teams. This is literally like the guy in Office Space who takes requirements from customers to engineers because he's a a people person, damnit. Secondly, it has essentially made it impossible to train new people. It turns out that entry level employees need lots of in-person time--instructional and unstructured--to become productive. We've now gotten to the point where the senior leaders who moved away or refuse to come in are on their way out, and we're only hiring new employees locally. WFH, for us, was a failed experiment.[/quote]

I agree a lot with this response. For instance, right now I need to find out which person does X program. So I'll send out an email, it will bounce around, won't receive a response for a few days (because the amount of emails everyone receives are in the hundreds) and I am delayed. Previously I could just ask around or pop into someone's office briefly. Or previously I likely would have just known who did X project because I spoke to people at lunch or at the coffee station. I'm getting really frustrated every day.

Meetings and emails are just out of control and they haven't given us the collaboration that we used to have. [/quote]i

I’m suprised some of you all don’t have tools like slack or MS teams or webex. Nobody calls or emails unless it needs to be documented. Slack at my company is how you get immediate responses. Plus for our tools you literally cannot hide. You can see who is logged in and who is idle and who is not even logged in. You can see who is in a meeting and who is not. You absolutely can go on a run, but it needs to be blocked off so people can see when you are idle or logged off that you are not available. I literally have logged today my dog walk (30min) and my trip to the garden center (45min). I’m not blocking off lunch today. As long as it’s transparent then nobody questions it. If your manager sees an idle status with no time block and you don’t do it a few times you might end up on a PIP.  Your manager can run metrics in idle status vs personal time blocks. [/quote]

I would never work for a company like yours. I do a lot of work reading on paper and editing (which I input on the computer later). Just because I am idle does not mean I am not working. I also have a lot of phone calls. Not all video meetings. I am mid 40s.

I know people who get mouse movers for idiot companies like yours. Crazy.[/quote]

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