Reply to: Working from home, less productive?

[northernladyuk]

More productive at home for the simple reason I'm not spending half the day in meetings at the client's site but rather instead at home getting on with the job. Besides I'm usually paid on deliverables rather than by the hour.

And your client is hardly going to want you in the office.

[scooterscot]

More productive at home for the simple reason I'm not spending half the day in meetings at the client's site but rather instead at home getting on with the job. Besides I'm usually paid on deliverables rather than by the hour.

[SueEllen]

You're already in the hole. Stop digging.

I listen to the radio hence the junk threads.

[WTFH]

For you or the dog?

Yes

[NotAllThere]

I defer to your obvious expertise in junk tv.

To be fair I read up about them in The Guardian and The Daily Mail.

You're already in the hole. Stop digging.

[SueEllen]

Walking The Dog (tw) helps prevent cabin fever.

For you or the dog?

[WTFH]

Yup I always find if I have been wfh that I want to go out to eat in the evening

even if it is just the local dive bar for chicken in a basket!

Walking The Dog (tw) helps prevent cabin fever.

[BoredBloke]

Makes no difference to me. I can do sod all equally well in either location.

[MrMarkyMark]

Aren't you the guy who is running away from the UK pre-Brexit, cause you can't stand it here any longer?

Oh, I will still be going eventually.

I certainly wouldn't call it running away.
In fact Brexit or no Brexit makes no difference to me, I had always planned to go and try my luck elsewhere.
Anyone that has known me for a long time will vouch for that.

However, I'm always a gun for hire, so I can still be bought providing the price is right to make me change my plans.

I actually refused it to start with, nothing definite yet either.

[original PM]

It can also depend on the connectivity to client wrt speed as well as what you're doing. Documentation is better done from home with fewer interruptions but there is the danger of cabin fever setting in.

Yup I always find if I have been wfh that I want to go out to eat in the evening

even if it is just the local dive bar for chicken in a basket!

[LondonManc]

It can also depend on the connectivity to client wrt speed as well as what you're doing. Documentation is better done from home with fewer interruptions but there is the danger of cabin fever setting in.

[Swamp Thing]

My experience of different client managers to this issue can be roughly summed up as:

IT manager: I don't want people working from home because they are only 70% productive as office based workers (the OP's experience);
FM manager: I don't want people working from home because they are 100% unproductive as office based workers;
Procurement manager: By all means work from home a couple of days a week - but make sure your laptop is always on (so we can send you the 7am or 11pm email );
Marketing manager: Do your tech work in the office, your blue sky thinking at home;
HR manager: Don't bother coming in Mondays or Fridays - none of your stakeholders come in on those days (best gig ever);

[WTFH]

I'm not known as the "last man standing" here for nothing.

Aren't you the guy who is running away from the UK pre-Brexit, cause you can't stand it here any longer?

[MrMarkyMark]

Do you think its something about you, personality or body odor?

Likely to be both

In reality they fired all the contractors and consultants who were sat around me.


I'm not known as the "last man standing" here for nothing.

[SueEllen]

First time in the office for 4 weeks.

Now sat well and truly on my own.

I'm the only bod sitting in 6 rows of desks