Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays

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11 points·pseudolus··8 comments

If we start getting friday as WFH or off, people will start feeling that way about thursdays

I work from home. I only fly to an office location for presentations to c-level.

I am a high performer, and working from home has had no impact on my commitment; some days start at 6am and end at 10pm.

It completely depends on the individual.

As a high performer do you feel you don't need to read comments before replying to them?

> If we start getting friday as WFH or off, people will start feeling that way about thursdays

The way I interpreted the comment was that getting WFH days is a slippery slope.

What did you understand by it?

If you work from home everyday, you aren’t on the slope.

/r/iamahighperformer

https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/

My argument is against the effects of the slippery slope here. What if individuals ask for Thursday wfh? What if they ask to wfh the whole week? Their output should still be the same and perhaps better.

I also manage a team of full of remote individuals, 20+. I cannot say that this team performs better or worse than the team I used to manage at an office before the pandemic.

So we now enter the negotiation phase of this massive PR operation to get us all to commute again. "Maybe you'll get Fridays off."

They're not going to win this one. Not enough people want to be in the office to justify having them, and the data for productivity disparity in favor of office work is just not there. Work from home (or wherever) is the future of information work, that's just how it is now.

I always thought nobody wants to be there at mondays...

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