Don’t Let Employees Pick Their WFH Days
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Managers that insist on doing this should just admit that controlling people is more important than productivity. There are good reasons to want everyone in the office at the same time, say a periodic team sync, every 4-6 weeks.
> among college graduates with young children women want to work from home full-time almost 50% more than men
Gee, why could that be? Could it be lack of affordable daycare? Hmm.
> firms that want to efficiently use their office space will need to centrally manage which teams come in on which days. Otherwise, the building will be empty on Monday and Friday — when everyone wants to WFH
Giving away the game here. This is saying that office space efficiency matters more than people, and people who WFH Monday and Friday are just doing it for long weekends.
I wonder how much time Dr. Bloom spends in the office.