Edit: Changed to a non-plagerizing link
That’s why they want to put a stop to it. You’re not allowed to be happy.
It’s also nice eating out of your own fridge, using your own toilet, and everything else.
from a “managing people” standpoint it’s a little easier (at least in my field) too, because it becomes obvious when someone’s product is shit if I’m paying attention
also i really like shitting at home
I could tolerate going in to the office if I had my own bathroom.
Bidet, and that’s all I’ll say
A moist towelette, that’s all you’ll get
Agreed, thanks COVID(I guess?)
yah, because I’m not working lol
I work longer hours at home pretty often. At 5 I leave office to make sure my 1.25-1.5 hour drive gets me home at a decent time, and to make sure I miss the worst traffic which I feel happens between 5:30 and 6.
At home I can just keep working, load up a game on my other monitor but keep working open too,and switch between doing some minor game stuff and back to work. I have a game up now at 7 and wrapped up my notes quite comfortably.
I’m also more alert at home because I sleep in more, getting about an hour more sleep.
For 4 years we studied water and came to the conclusion that water is made of water. And it is liquid. And wet. But we aren’t sure about wetness because of some intricate terminology nuances.
Someone has to provide proof for the answers to obvious questions, if for no other reason than to short circuit the “SoUrCe?” clowns.
Exactly. It’s never a bad thing to have hard data on what we think is obvious.
Especially since it’s not uncommon for what’s ‘obvious’ to be wrong.
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Well, it makes most of us happier. There was a minority of people who were very unhappy about remote working and who were eager for everyone to be forced back into the office. Not me, but there were some people.
It was managers, especially middle-managers. And if they are not happy, no one can be happy. Too bad middle-managers are always unhappy.
I must say I am happiest with hybrid. As someone living alone I start to chew the furniture with my work happening in the same space as my leisure. I do love the flexibility, the fact that I can literally just make lunch and eat it rather than dealing with a wet lunchbox sandwich. But I do like to see other people, and an entirely remote lifestyle makes me go a little crazy
Respectable, I’m the opposite, whenever in at the office I feel like I’m clawing at the walls to get out as quickly as possible, the sweat, the noise, the people, it’s just not my thing, at home I live alone in a decently sized apartment in a non-major city and it feels so cash compared to rammed trains and buses commuting for hours and hours like the last chopper out of Saigon.
I propose that the mods should take this post down, or at least point to the original post, that cmu.fr has obviously plagiarized.
Here is what seems to be the original post: https://indiandefencereview.com/theyve-observed-teleworking-for-four-years-and-reached-one-clear-conclusion-working-from-home-makes-us-happier/
The big difference is that the original article actually points to the study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35379616/ where as the cmu.fr plagiarized version makes no reference whatsoever to the study. Just vague slop about “scientists”.
That said, I think that even the original article miscaracterizes the paper. Here is the paper abstract:
Objectives: To investigate the impacts, on mental and physical health, of a mandatory shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design: Cross sectional, online survey.
Setting: Online survey was conducted from September 2020 to November 2020 in the general population.
Participants: Australian residents working from home for at least 2 days a week at some time in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Main outcome measures: Demographics, caring responsibilities, working from home arrangements, work-related technology, work-family interface, psychosocial and physical working conditions, and reported stress and musculoskeletal pain.
Results: 924 Australians responded to the online questionnaire. Respondents were mostly women (75.5%) based in Victoria (83.7%) and employed in the education and training and healthcare sectors. Approximately 70% of respondents worked five or more days from home, with only 60% having a dedicated workstation in an uninterrupted space. Over 70% of all respondents reported experiencing musculoskeletal pain or discomfort. Gendered differences were observed; men reported higher levels of family to work conflict (3.16±1.52 to 2.94±1.59, p=0.031), and lower levels of recognition for their work (3.75±1.03 to 3.96±1.06, p=0.004), compared with women. For women, stress (2.94±0.92 to 2.66±0.88, p<0.001) and neck/shoulder pain (4.50±2.90 to 3.51±2.84, p<0.001) were higher than men and they also reported more concerns about their job security than men (3.01±1.33 to 2.78±1.40, p=0.043).
Conclusions: Preliminary evidence from the current study suggests that working from home may impact employees’ physical and mental health, and that this impact is likely to be gendered. Although further analysis is required, these data provide insights into further research opportunities needed to assist employers in optimising working from home conditions and reduce the potential negative physical and mental health impacts on their employees.
Keywords: COVID-19; mental health; risk management.
So, long story short: this article is slop, copied from another piece of slop that mischaracterized a study. Overall: meh.
Hey @cm0002@lemmy.world want to show a post your way - confirm receipt if ya ‘round?
Always appreciate your posts!
Thanks, I missed the above reply, this was a crosspost, so I’ve broken that crosspost to change the link to something not plagiarized
And that study is based on surveys… Literally the lowest possible quality information metric.
With that, survey data are some of the poorest quality data.
Plagiarizing. It’s spelled plagiarizing.
And yet we all still understood it somehow
This is what bombing those buildings in Fight Club was truly about!
The return to office mandate is such an annoyance. I hope companies who did it suffer because of it.
One of the top tech companies in my country mandated a return to office because the boss couldn’t stand that people were working from Bali instead of chatting with him at the office coffee machines in the cold Estonian winter.
Friend who works there says it’s up to the team leads and few want to enforce it and risk losing people. But the CEO got his article in the newspapers saying software engineers are all lazy entitled pieces of shit, which was his real goal. He hates paying people, but the company only gets top talent because of their salaries. Nobody goes there for “innovation” anymore now that it’s an established company.
Little do they know that worker happiness is considered the enemy of productivity.* Plus, it’s harder to micromanage them when they’re at home.
*By employers, not the workers, obviously.
I don’t get this.
When I was unhappy at my last job I was way less productive.
Now I’m enjoying my new job and spend my time solving real technical problems and building real projects.
I was considering taking a pay cut just to leave my last job it had gotten so toxic. You can pay employees less if they’re otherwise satisfied.
Yes, but you have to consider the poor CEO’s and middle managers. They need to be able to strut around an office full of people and feel important. Plus there’s all that office space they leased for the next 30 years at a discount that they need to fill with workers to justify the expense!!
It cruel to only consider the happiness of the slave class while ignoring the plight of the ruling class. Don’t you people know that?!?!?
During the pandemic our office was inspected and structurally condemned, so we literally have nowhere to go back to, the building is now a car park. It’s great.
I wholeheartedly recommend black mould and a leaky roof to anyone that doesn’t want to go back, it might be hard to arrange but it definitely works.
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Too bad that happiness is banned in the USA…
Happiness breeds self esteem, self esteem breeds confidence, confidence breeds learning. Education, confidence, self esteem, and happiness are all antithetical to fear and obedience. We’re much easier to rule if we’re stressed out. Plus, the real reason for return to office is real estate value. It has nothing to do with worker morale or productivity.
What a silly thing to say. It’s merely prohibitively expensive. I mean, reasonably priced and readily available for those that deserve it.
D E S E R V E
All in a monthly subscription service.
I thought it was a pay-per-smile subscription…
Oooh we didn’t think of that. We just changed it to a subscription that you then also pay an a la carte fee for. This is somehow better for the consumer because of reasons.
Yea sucks, they banned compassion and kindness too
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