Working From Home Megathread

The eternal question, why are management needed, sure everyone is able to work by themselves with no one in charge?

Similarly, no one needs to improve their working relationships, to access their employees social skills or attitude for doing other things, or to talk about possible process changes.

Most of us are pretty happy in the CS/PS let's not lump us in with him. He wants to seem great to his fellow human but drop them at a hat to further himself

Oh I know people like that where I work. They can be the nicest to you and good friends but once they go higher in grades they get like business. An example is you are sending an attachment and its done wrong most well email you back sorted others will email higher bosses and make a complete song and dance and then takes much longer

You can try all you want, everyone (bar one other poster) in here sees through all of your carry on as well when it comes to this. You deal in extreme situations, no one will sit in one spot for 8 hours without moving, at home or in an office.

People don’t need to be baby fed the ability on how to WFH, this is clear considering the sheer amount of people requesting the ability to continue to do that, or a hybrid of it. You’re in the minority with all of this, a big song and dance because you want compensation to up your house at someone’s else’s expense. A good employer will do that they have to to supply you with an adequate home set up, if they don’t, change jobs. But it sounds like you’ve a cushy number, so you make a racket about it in here but not to your employer. It’s on YOU to do something about it.

As for the rest of us, we have and will continue to do quite alright WFH. Do you know why? Because we are adults with the ability to look after ourselves, your lack of ownership over your own situation just shows poor judgement and immaturity when it comes to this. You want your cake and to eat it, take some responsibility and be realistic, don’t sit in an uncomfortable position (or any prolonged position) for a long period of time, get up and walk, change locations, stretch, do yoga, be a grown up!

But, you won’t, you’ll rant about a dangerous work environment (it’s YOUR house), and blame everyone else, like you always do.

Management is still needed to provide direction and leadership and maintain an overview of what's being done. That doesn't require a physical presence , though (depending on the industry and type of work, of course), and the good managers know it.

Outside of certain jobs that require it if a good manager needs physical presence then they are no longer a good manager. They may well have been in the before times but it will be a slightly different skillset going forward for managers in most fields. Many bad managers will be fine with wfh and will still be bad managers however the post is saying that good managers know that the world is going wfh which is true, it does not say that everyone in favour of wfh is a good manager which is what you have read into it.

Senior Manager here... I work from home with a completely remote team.. We still need a manager and the results and the team decide whether I'm any good.

Anyway, reason I post is that I'm in the office today, the building, although scaled down can hold about 800ish... I'm one of only two people in.

Shame the canteen is closed as I have to go out and get coffee but I only have two days to work so working in the earie silence is fine by me. Happy to be not working from the table in the front room.