I think a truly WFH world would force us to fundamentally rethink some of our common infrastructure designs. And one of those would be including multiple different offices in houses. Because most houses and apartments aren’t designed with WFH in mind.
If you have a dedicated place for work, (instead of a shared space, like a desk that you also use for your personal stuff), it helps you focus. Your brain compartmentalizes the rooms in your house, (which is why you’ll walk into a room and immediately forget what you went in there for,) so having a room that is dedicated to WFH will literally help you avoid distraction. If you try to WFH from the same desk that you play video games at, you’ll feel a constant desire to boot up a game instead of working. And inversely, if you try to play a game at your work desk, playing will begin to feel like a job. Your complaint is perfectly valid, and also so common that it would literally reshape the way our houses are designed.
For me it’s the opposite, I’m too easily distracted so all the people talking around me while I try to work make me lose focus. At home I can sit there in peace and quiet and actually make it through a document
Same. My productivity is awful in an office because we had an ‘open office’ and it was nothing but distractions and noise all day long. Not to mention folks coming up to you and asking you to do stuff verbally, which never got documented and therefore did not count as ‘productive’ activity.
at home everything is an email so I have a record of things I do that looks 10x bigger than I did in the office.
Yeah that is a good point, we also have an open office. I imagine if there were more separation with individual or team offices it would be a lot easier to work there.
it would, but people who design offices are buzzword lemmings who follow trends and don’t care about worker productivity objectively.
my first office had big tall cubes and it was gloriously quiet. we are now on our third office, but since only like 20 people come in on any day, it’s much quieter than having 50-80 people, half of whom are blabbing with each other or on the phone and everyone in 30 ft of them can hear their convo.
As much as I’d love to work from home, I can’t. I’m too easily distracted and work would be at the bottom of my priority list at all times.
I’ll happily support all of you home workers, but I can’t trust myself to do what I’m supposed to do during “work time”.
I think a truly WFH world would force us to fundamentally rethink some of our common infrastructure designs. And one of those would be including multiple different offices in houses. Because most houses and apartments aren’t designed with WFH in mind.
If you have a dedicated place for work, (instead of a shared space, like a desk that you also use for your personal stuff), it helps you focus. Your brain compartmentalizes the rooms in your house, (which is why you’ll walk into a room and immediately forget what you went in there for,) so having a room that is dedicated to WFH will literally help you avoid distraction. If you try to WFH from the same desk that you play video games at, you’ll feel a constant desire to boot up a game instead of working. And inversely, if you try to play a game at your work desk, playing will begin to feel like a job. Your complaint is perfectly valid, and also so common that it would literally reshape the way our houses are designed.
For me it’s the opposite, I’m too easily distracted so all the people talking around me while I try to work make me lose focus. At home I can sit there in peace and quiet and actually make it through a document
Same. My productivity is awful in an office because we had an ‘open office’ and it was nothing but distractions and noise all day long. Not to mention folks coming up to you and asking you to do stuff verbally, which never got documented and therefore did not count as ‘productive’ activity.
at home everything is an email so I have a record of things I do that looks 10x bigger than I did in the office.
Yeah that is a good point, we also have an open office. I imagine if there were more separation with individual or team offices it would be a lot easier to work there.
it would, but people who design offices are buzzword lemmings who follow trends and don’t care about worker productivity objectively.
my first office had big tall cubes and it was gloriously quiet. we are now on our third office, but since only like 20 people come in on any day, it’s much quieter than having 50-80 people, half of whom are blabbing with each other or on the phone and everyone in 30 ft of them can hear their convo.