Please, I’m just genuinely curious.
But I’ll like to help anyone wanting to answer by categorizing the reasons into like 4: You can choose any, or come up with your own reasons.
- You believe remote work is just a trend, and will die soon
- You think it’s just a bubble waiting to burst
- You think remote work will never be successful
- You believe remote work is still in its infancy/ (it’s early) and you don’t want to jump on the train just yet
- You’re just uncertain about the whole remote work thing
I’m thinking of using your reasons to work on a bigger content (ebook) for my long piece here.
It’s the overall drop in productivity and engagement. My job is office based, my employees are field based. Their support teams are 100% WFH.
Engagement dropped. We constantly have to hit them up to have them do things they should be doing. Moving work, assigning, calling etc.
This is a team that when office based pre Covid had to have a supervisor walk up and down the cubicles to make sure they weren’t watching movies on their phones.
What do you think they are doing now?
When WFH started they had a hard time understanding their cameras. They would hop in a meeting literally in bed, head on the pillow, eyes closed. One turned her camera on, had to present in a meeting and did so from her Car because she left to get Dunkin Donuts. Apparently that couldn’t wait 20mins. It really became how do I fit work into my life.
If it’s a self driven role, like sales, seems good to go. The more your work the more you make.
If it’s a “9-5” for sure the goal is to work as little as possible to keep your job.
On the flip side I’m not sure how you can accurately gauge and grade performance.
We had someone like that in college who didn’t know their camera was on lmao and then he fell asleep. But do you mean they ment to put their camera on in bed or didn’t do it intentionally?