That’s what I’m hearing more and more form people who where happy to do so at first…
But now find they work longer hours and are actually more stressed…
Their boss is actually saving money on this…
The average workday lengthened by 48.5 minutes in the weeks following stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, and the number of meetings increased by 13 percent, a working paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed.
The study, which examined the anonymous email and calendar data of more than three million users from an unnamed tech provider, also found significant increases in internal email and in meeting sizes.
Anyone who has been working from home amid the unyielding health crisis — especially those also juggling the education or care of children — will not be surprised. While anecdotal interviews or smaller surveys have already pointed to similar results, said Jeffrey Polzer, a Harvard Business School professor and one of the paper’s co-authors, “what our study adds is documentation at scale of the overall pattern.”….
It’s horrible