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The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a major shift in the way Americans live and work, and a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that workers in the U.S. are taking advantage of a widespread shift toward remote work to spend more time sleeping and engaging in leisure activities.
When the morning commute is removed, there is a lot of extra time for employee to sleep longer in the morning. 30-90 minutes extra sleep time rather than waking up before dawn due to long commute.
When the need to shower and dress up before work is removed from the morning routine, there is extra time for employee to sleep later in the morning. 30-60 minutes of time saved.
When the evening commute is removed, there is extra time for the employee to do leisure activities after work, instead of commuting home from work. 30-90 minutes time saved.
This extra time for sleeping and leisure is NOT taken during work hours. It's due to the time saved commuting before/after work and time saved getting ready for work each morning.
Before COVID, I rarely got contacted off hours unless on-call. These days, with remote teams, all time is work time. I just got contacted on something about thirty minutes ago the on-call person failed to respond on.
If anything, we don't leave work at work now. It's a 24x7 thing.
Not for me. I'm definitely more productive in the office. My most productive days are when I go in on Friday (we work 4-10's and are closed on Fridays) and no one is there to bother me or distract me.
And yet, life goes on. Perhaps the percentage of employment in white collar office (or home) based professional occupations is simply too high... How much of this "work" really needs doing?
And yet, life goes on. Perhaps the percentage of employment in white collar office (or home) based professional occupations is simply too high... How much of this "work" really needs doing?
Based on my experience at my job, not much of it. I admit my job is minimally useful, at best, in the grand scheme of things.
Before COVID, I rarely got contacted off hours unless on-call. These days, with remote teams, all time is work time. I just got contacted on something about thirty minutes ago the on-call person failed to respond on.
If anything, we don't leave work at work now. It's a 24x7 thing.
Yes.. often I forget to do something during the day and hop on well after hours ... and stay on for a few hours. No study is going to capture these things.
Many times I will do work at night (responding to emails) and put them in my email draft folder to send at 8:00 am the next day.
There can be no argument we are not more productive that is not just PR so employers can go back to their old ways.
I find that true about a lot of people. When I was in an 8 hr/day office job, I didn't always have 8 hours of work to do unless I was in a big project. I didn't do water cooler talk like many others though, but I certainly did a lot more internet shopping and research. These days, being self employed and working from home, I often mutter about why I never seem to be caught up and that is pretty much why. I am no longer "paid" to do little things like that.
I saw many people do things like that. They would also do things like walk at lunch. Like another poster said, a lot of time has been saved by not commuting or needing to get dressed up for the office.
I find my work hours shift seasonally. In the summer I am out the door early for a long bike ride but I work later in the day to make up for it. In the winter I will start work early and then workout mid-morning when it warms up. I don't necessarily work less/play more, but being home allows me to be flexible about when I do each thing.
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Originally Posted by CCS414
Not for me. I'm definitely more productive in the office. My most productive days are when I go in on Friday (we work 4-10's and are closed on Fridays) and no one is there to bother me or distract me.
Snow days used to be my favorite day to go into the office. I would get so much done!
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Yes.. often I forget to do something during the day and hop on well after hours ... and stay on for a few hours. No study is going to capture these things.
Many times I will do work at night (responding to emails) and put them in my email draft folder to send at 8:00 am the next day.
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I learned that lesson the hard way - reply once after hours and it just opens the doors to more.
Yes.. often I forget to do something during the day and hop on well after hours ... and stay on for a few hours. No study is going to capture these things.
Many times I will do work at night (responding to emails) and put them in my email draft folder to send at 8:00 am the next day.
There can be no argument we are not more productive that is not just PR so employers can go back to their old ways.
My laptop stayed at work off-hours before I went remote. I always have it with me now. Management knows and exploits this.
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