@johnamaechiobe: It’s 2025… why are we still debating whether working from home is productive? Let’s stop letting irrational or self-serving concerns dominate the conversation. The data’s there. The results speak. Time to move forward. #wfh
I worked for a man who freaked out that I was writing a grant application at the seaside. My win rate is over 90%, over 15 years, millions raised, writing in cafés. He got one grant in hs life.
2025-05-09 09:58:31
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🐇 :
A big part of my role is nurturing and growing young professionals. This is much harder to do when wfh. For these guys I prefer a balance of time together and time remote.
2025-05-10 12:04:09
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Millie :
I really think it’s role dependent. There are just some jobs in life when being present in the office is best for all, doesn’t have to 5 days a week and it doesn’t need to be a once size fits all.
2025-06-10 15:07:13
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Clare-eclair :
People in offices waste time commuting, getting coffee, chatting, faffing around and people who work at home put the washing on or walk the dog st lunchtime. Much better all round.
2025-05-09 12:59:30
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existentialcrisis :
I work much better with a cat on my lap than with a co-worker interrupting me to socialize
2025-05-10 03:26:57
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richelcuyler :
I also think many people in leadership do not realize the benefits of wfh for neurodivergent people.
2025-05-10 14:02:38
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Martha Dell :
Some concerns are projection. I had a new boss who resented a staff member of mine working from home, though she’d done it productively for years. The boss knew he’d have taken advantage.
2025-05-09 12:49:32
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Clare-eclair :
Most people who WFH do a good job and if they didn’t they’d get sacked for underperforming. End of. As long as the required output is being achieved what difference does it make?
2025-05-09 12:57:59
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PennyJo :
Worked remote for Fortune 500 a decade before Covid. To dispel any notion of privilege, I overworked. And I regret it.
2025-05-10 02:00:47
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20thcenturymax :
There's never any acknowledgement that different people work better under different circumstances. Some work better in a busy office and others NEED isolation in order to fully function.
2025-05-09 20:53:23
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daphne dorricott :
I've noticed at work people talk too much at work. I'm ND and i hate it and sit in another room to other staff members.
2025-05-10 20:58:40
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LoobyFox :
They can’t distinguish between what they think we do and what they know they would be doing
2025-05-10 15:40:07
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Philippa-The Mind Atelier :
After years of helping organisations build sustainable peak-performance cultures, these are common concerns and an undercurrent of resistance to making thing better for everyone.
2025-05-10 08:25:43
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Saema999 :
💯💯
2025-07-06 14:10:58
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SirMagnus :
The issue is the employee front facing, i.e. working directly with the public, or not front facing. You do not need, not front facing employees at the work place. Literally, they should work at home using their own services, instead of the company paying for it
If a company cannot figure out the cost savings of this, you need to be elsewhere.
Understand, I personally am a Front Facing employee, I have to be in the office.
2025-05-18 17:29:23
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Poojipants :
🙄🙄🙄
2025-05-14 20:11:15
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momo :
No need for managers micromanaging everyone if they’re at home being productive. Get rid of middle managers and save a lot of money. That’s what they’re afraid of
2025-05-12 00:05:28
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Feven B :
I agree! Where is the data on this? 🤔
2025-05-11 22:17:26
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jhj :
the rational are ok ISH. I mean in tech roles nobody cared about these things before when you were WFH on On call up all night etc social connections are iffy
2025-05-11 17:15:27
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🇬🇧Jenny :
I agree, but would add, we risk creating a two tier system where those who do jobs that can't be done from home drop further down the social hierarchy.
2025-05-10 22:47:05
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Middy :
The missing out thing I get. The remote workers never get any communication about office stuff that happens.
2025-05-10 20:37:32
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Reddish 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧 :
definitely took more toilet breaks in office than at home, and at the loss of no cats and all the time and money spent on travelling.
wfh for life 😁
2025-05-09 14:20:16
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PaddyDM :
I completely agree and would add another rationale concern…. Personal development that happens through proximity (and line of sight for insightful leaders) and drives competency and career.
2025-05-09 12:23:49
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DreamHazard 🐢🔻 :
only one of those sets of concerns comes from a leader.
2025-05-09 11:53:14
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AG :
Is it irrational? are they correct views on done human behaviours? Are there people who are lazy? are there people who can run a home so work is easy? It’s the military paradigm extrinsic motivation
2025-05-09 10:45:06
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Xalle39 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 :
100%
2025-05-09 09:58:22
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Jerry :
Bro you look like my friend David Akinsanya
2025-05-09 09:46:44
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Mugatu :
Absolutely nailed it
2025-05-09 09:44:29
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