Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

[cals]

Just now, Taylor said:

dtwnanhm

Do you work remotely?

[Taylor]

10 minutes ago, cals said:

Do you work remotely?

I do. It's awesome.

[Jason]

19 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Word on the street is you learned that lesson the hard way.

Pun intended.

I don’t know what you heard but I had an itch and was only scratching it 

[cals]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I do. It's awesome.

Have you ever run a business or been in an upper management position?

[Taylor]

Just now, cals said:

Have you ever run a business or been in an upper management position?

Nope. But I've worked for upper management who were also remote.

It works for some people, not for others. 

[cals]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

Nope. But I've worked for upper management who were also remote.

It works for some people, not for others. 

Maybe there are jobs that it does.  But for most people in most jobs I doubt it.  It’s a nice thought, but the reality is most people’s homes are too distracting and most people lack the discipline to complete their work at the same rate as if they were in an office situation.

I can’t imagine any legitimate study would conclude anything else.

[Jason]

9 minutes ago, cals said:

Maybe there are jobs that it does.  But for most people in most jobs I doubt it.  It’s a nice thought, but the reality is most people’s homes are too distracting and most people lack the discipline to complete their work at the same rate as if they were in an office situation.

I can’t imagine any legitimate study would conclude anything else.

It would make supervising employees a challenge for sure 

[cals]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

It would make supervising employees a challenge for sure 

And hugs, too.  This is why I’m surprised Taylor supports remote working. 

[katie]

Please don’t hug your subordinates. 

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, cals said:

Maybe there are jobs that it does.  But for most people in most jobs I doubt it.  It’s a nice thought, but the reality is most people’s homes are too distracting and most people lack the discipline to complete their work at the same rate as if they were in an office situation.

I can’t imagine any legitimate study would conclude anything else.

Here are a couple from both standpoints:

https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivity-statistics/#:~:text=Performance can increase up to,home increase productivity by 13%.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2021/01/17/think-productivity-with-work-from-home-is-improving-think-again-heres-what-you-must-know/?sh=52a501eb2d67

I don't think there's a definitive answer here. I see positives and negatives. 

I can't say from experience because of what I do. I literally cannot work from home. But I'm sure there are people who have increased their productivity and people who got too distracted to be productive. I guess it depends on the specific environment they set up for themselves.

[Amazing Larry]

Well I'm sure Elon has crunched the numbers and probably knows what benefits Tesla's production a little better than anyone here.

[cals]

29 minutes ago, katie said:

Please don’t hug your subordinates. 

I didn’t spend $150K on this TK Burger franchise not to hug all these high school girls.

[St1ck]

Probably needs his team together so they can relaunch this clothing line.

 

 

[tdawg87]

Just now, cals said:

I didn’t spend $150K on this TK Burger franchise not to hug all these high school girls.

[AngelsLakersFan]

14 hours ago, cals said:

I’m not buying it.  

Me either. I used to walk over to my coworkers office to get an immediate response to a question. Now I send them a message on teams and hear back 40 minutes later.

[AngelsLakersFan]

12 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Here are a couple from both standpoints:

https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivity-statistics/#:~:text=Performance can increase up to,home increase productivity by 13%.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2021/01/17/think-productivity-with-work-from-home-is-improving-think-again-heres-what-you-must-know/?sh=52a501eb2d67

I don't think there's a definitive answer here. I see positives and negatives. 

I can't say from experience because of what I do. I literally cannot work from home. But I'm sure there are people who have increased their productivity and people who got too distracted to be productive. I guess it depends on the specific environment they set up for themselves.

There is a trend now where people are getting multiple remote jobs. This was pretty much impossible to do a few years ago and I don’t think it’s a sign of increased productivity.

[katie]

I’ll only ever be hybrid at best. Can’t science too much from home. 

[m0nkey]

Working from home is the biggest scam. I work maybe 2 hours a week, but that could be my job and having nothing to do

[arch stanton]

My wife's been working out of an office in our bedroom for over 2 years and she's quite productive. They keys are being the dispatcher for the company driver and having a good nanny that keeps the little one occupied all day

[katie]

17 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Working from home is the biggest scam. I work maybe 2 hours a week, but that could be my job and having nothing to do

Are they hiring

[Rico]

2 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Me either. I used to walk over to my coworkers office to get an immediate response to a question. 

Yeah, but then he tells you about his weekend.

[Lou]

6 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Working from home is the biggest scam. I work maybe 2 hours a week, but that could be my job and having nothing to do

You've made me so proud.

[Taylor]

Spoiler Alert: Being in an office for 8 hours doesn't mean you're actually working for 8 hours.

[Tank]

i worked a lot harder when we went online. had to convert most of my assignments from MS Word into google docs, and the formatting was often a challenge. some things i'd been using couldn't be put on docs, so i either remade them into something similar or just scrapped them completely. lost several videos i'd been using in class and found only a few of them online for free that i could use. it also pushed me to find new things to use with the kids. i liked getting up a bit later and going home a lot earlier, but it was a lot of work in between. i'm looking forward to not having any kids online when we start up again in august. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

i worked a lot harder when we went online. had to convert most of my assignments from MS Word into google docs, and the formatting was often a challenge. some things i'd been using couldn't be put on docs, so i either remade them into something similar or just scrapped them completely. lost several videos i'd been using in class and found only a few of them online for free that i could use. it also pushed me to find new things to use with the kids. i liked getting up a bit later and going home a lot earlier, but it was a lot of work in between. i'm looking forward to not having any kids online when we start up again in august. 

That sounds like more work and decreased productivity when working at home.