Why Executives Shouldn’t Freak Out About Working From Home
Yes, time will be spent doing non-work things. So what?
Lots of people, myself included, work office jobs. Quite a few of those people commute to the office, spend eight or nine hours there, then commute home. When considering the amount of time preparing for work, driving to work, and spending time at the office, workers often spend upwards of twelve hours doing job-related things.
Then COVID happened, and just about the whole office-based workforce shifted to working from home overnight. Spending an hour prepping for work and another half-hour driving to the office quickly went out the window. Shower habits, makeup routines, and business-casual clothes gave way to five-minute wakeup routines and business tops over pajama pants. When your commute shrinks from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, suddenly you’ve got a bunch of free time.
Now that we’re approaching the second anniversary of lockdown in America (and the world), there is much debate over working from home. It’s great for workers! It’s horrible for morale! Office cohesiveness and networking are suffering! Worker mental health is improving! Business districts and restaurants are suffering from loss of office traffic!
