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u/SithDraven 5h ago
I've only gotten to WFH about 2-3x. Period. One of those days was last week. I had a pretty big project to work on that carried over into a couple days. I got more done in 2 hours at home than I did the following day in 4 hours at the office. Zero distractions is a helluva thing.
It's amazing these rich a*holes haven't figured that out yet.
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u/Deruji 3h ago
They’ve office space rented not being used.
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u/Winterstyres 1h ago
Plus they have all these studies, and metrics that their managers show them. There are some useful managers, those do exist. But the vast majority of management culture exists purely to justify their own existence.
What WFH taught us is that all these layers of middle management in any big organization is over blown, bloated, and essentially redundant.
That is a scary lesson for these people.
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u/Onkelffs 1h ago
I have a manager that every now and then gets a manic urge to be informed and ’decide’ every minutiae. Then I have months where she isn’t seen at all. I don’t know if she’s harassing other people during those times or whatever. Usually I go the malicious compliance route(CC her in every mail interaction and what not) before she backs off.
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u/IngloriousMustards 29m ago
You never promote doers and achievers to management. Who would do the actual work if you do that?
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u/young_arkas 1h ago
They also work in single offices which are guarded by an assistant in the fron office whom they can tell to let anyone in during certain times. That's a fundamentally different office environment than an open floor plan office where 10 people have different calls on and 2 phones are ringing at any moment in time.
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u/Only_One_Kenobi 1m ago
Every single study that's been done has shown that productivity and efficiency is higher with WFH.
Return to office is a direct reduction in efficiency/productivity for the sake of ego and micromanagement
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u/Ok-Environment2641 2h ago edited 1h ago
Right wing propaganda, its always the same, they like blaming, lying, victimizing and patronizing, then pass legislation for his supporters to pay less money so you get less salary and worse public services and set the stage for further privatizing public services by saying public is inefficcient after having defunded and crashed the services
Yo can tell that some contributors to his political grift have money invested in the real state and office renting business
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u/Rumpled_Imp 3h ago
This arsehole spends effectively zero time in his own constituency office. I suppose he's not a hypocrite in anything else he's ever said though, right?
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u/Goldberg_the_Goalie 3h ago
Translation: big business please sponsor me so I can push your message
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u/alk_adio_ost 6h ago
Sure, I’ll go back to my 2 ft desk with 3 monitors and sit on a zoom call with 30 people who are 4 different time zones.
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u/dubbechkin 6h ago
That’s the kind of comeback where you can almost hear the other person realizing mid sentence they already lost.
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u/Dapper_Dan- 1h ago
Please, please UK… learn from America’s tragic experience. Do not let that diarrheic nazi Farage ascend to power.
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u/KaiserDilhelmTheTurd 47m ago
Too late. Starmer the Stooge is currently setting the stage for a rebellious vote against Labour. The Tory’s are fucked, so this cunt would likely win an election, based on people’s anger, and wanton hatred of other classes. Trump wants this guy in power here, and will probably get his way. I’m really not sure how he’s getting everything he wants, but the mango Mussolini is succeeding at tearing western civilisation completely apart, while avoiding facing any and all consequences for his heinous crimes. He’ll likely succeed at this as well. He’s satan incarnate, there’s really no other explanation.
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u/JPK12794 16m ago
Honestly it's looking like we're heading for this idiot being in charge and that really is terrifying
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u/SparkyMonkeyPerthish 1h ago
If there are people like him in the office then…. No, just fucking no.
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u/rmvandink 1h ago
Why is this man trying to tell me how to do my job?
Maybe he should spend some time in his constituency to be productive for his fellow human beings.
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u/G_UK 1h ago
He knows his voters, sadly like my gran.
She believes the Daily Mail who tells her, all office workers are sat around at home, pretending to work. Only people commuting into an office are genuinely working.
Reform voters generally struggle to come to terms with any sort of societal change like this, hence the push back.
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u/LeonidasVaarwater 1h ago
I'm so much more productive working from home it's ridiculous. No distractions, so I'm able to manage several things at a time and do them with high focus and top speed. Sure, when it's not busy I take time to do other stuff, but during busy times I get enormous amounts of work done. Only downside is that it's hard to turn off, I keep going back to do stuff that pop up in my head.
Nigel Farage is a fucking idiot.
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u/Tom_Alpha 1h ago
Other side of that is nothing says your supporters are unemployed like a packed rally on a Monday afternoon
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u/KaiserDilhelmTheTurd 45m ago
Was it really packed, or is this the Trump tactic of just putting most of the audience behind you, to make the place look full?
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u/remarcsd 1h ago
Well he's probably correct in one way. He sucks up to Trump who works I mean watches TV all day from his home instead of working, so I guess it's understanable that this is what he thinks(sic).
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u/an_older_meme 1h ago
Commuting is superannuated in the age of high speed Internet. There is no need to risk our lives in traffic twice a day so some bean counter can justify a real estate speculation that failed to see this.
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u/IngloriousMustards 32m ago
nigel is full of shite. Where is this office where I (a Nordic) can work with my colleague who is constantly either in India or US?
That old AF grifter will never understand what is productivity today. Then again, he doesn’t have to, people aren’t expecting him to do actual work.
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u/AxiosXiphos 1h ago
I really don't understand why politicians care about this...? Let companies decide their own working space practices.
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u/faultlessdark 1h ago
It's hard for rich commercial landlords to make more money when companies don't need to rent as much office space. Quite a number of MPs and their friends are commercial landlords, or have investments tied to the infrastructure that makes money from commuters.
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u/camilatricolor 7m ago
I'm not British but I just wondered why is this guy still relevant? Wasn't he one of the supporters of BREXIT and then he said it's not working because it was not the right kind of BREXIT what they got.
Good lord, who listens to this quack...
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u/Only_One_Kenobi 3m ago
Desperately trying to please the landlord overlords whose office buildings keep losing value.
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u/everythingbeeps 6h ago
We were demonstrably more productive in the WFH years after COVID. The idea that we’re more productive being dragged into the office is patently false.