Be Honest! WFH Working From Home is Really Just An Excuse to be Lazy

Arguing the benefits and drawbacks of WFH schemes and 'culture'.

The 2020 pandemic's lockdowns forced many 'non-essential' workers to work from home. This practice of staying indoors all day, turning one's residence into their 'office', was quite pleasant for most. An enhanced sense of freedom and convenience presented was a strong lure for many to continue to stay away from offices when they reopened.

Some benefits of WFH are:

• Greater control over time spent
• Resources saved from not travelling
• Increased time spent with relatives

Despite these nice rewards for working from home, there always must be an other side. The negatives.

• Furthers 'digital transformation' towards human displacement.
• Has negligible polution / energy resource improvement >>> More reliance on tech resources
• Mostly includes staff who are 'not essential' and do not require physically working hard. >>> Class-Based Benefits, WFH mostly excludes lower paid staff.
• Encroaches on the family system and introduces various distractions from one's responsibilities.
• Greater opportunity to discriminate >>> wider region of hiring, stronger ability to omit non-'cultural-fits' from the workforce.
• Provides reasoning for increased monitoring of your every move.
• Creates distortions of time >>> Waking later, working hours outside of the shift, longer breaks.
• Increased reclusiveness and poor health.

It is the case that the WFH dynamic is being exploited. Unless they are unhealthily reclusive, people who adhere to working from home are guaranteed to be much less integrated in the operations of the business than they could be. They might fulfill expectations for the role but are certainly working behind some degree of barrier. 

Some ridiculously mindless WFH types assert to impose their 'home office' space onto their neighbours. Some persist to impose their 'workspace rules' onto their children and families. Some use this dynamic as a force to neglect their other responsibilities.

Many WFH staff are happily living upwards of hundreds of miles away from their offices, holding employment positions away from local people in the area that the employer is based. I should not need to describe why this is bad. Also, no matter the measures in place, assurable security is a non-available mandate.

This should tell you everything you need to know:

In organisations which require 'hybrid' working, forcing staff to visit the office a number of days each week, the least popular days for office attendance are Monday and Friday.

Long weekends...