#WF47 Surveying 21,000 workers on the gains from working from home, the impact on personal grooming, and a perspective from rideshare workers in Jakarta.
I live in Auckland, New Zealand where the average commute time is at least an hour each way, petrol is $3.03 a liter and public transport hugely unreliable. Many companies have downsized their space, and the last job I had where there was an office, we all went in to a serviced office one day a week, which was great. The irony was, while it was great for the team, we got very little work done. Previously in a government department where I held a senior position with my own corner in a large open plan office, I estimate that easily an average of 30% of time was wasted in deskside chats, meetings that took a long time to get to business, and very little personal accountability. Some people had to work in the office by the nature of their jobs, but most would get much more done when they worked from home, which some of us had reasonable discretion to do.
Thanks Luigi - you spin this question to another city or type of worker to see hugely different perspectives, and I appreciate yours. The context is so important, everyone needs to be a 'work-designer' today to evaluate what works best for you. I think this is a difference from the past, some people are less willing to accept blanket corporate solutions to working? I think if we ranked the most pleasant commutes around the World, the ones to Auckland would rank highly!
Thanks Andy. Auckland commutes can me very scenic, but still not something you want to do to often, whether it is for the cost or the loss of time. I would rather spend the extra 2 hours a day with my family or taking a walk in the bush or along the beach, ten minutes walk from my home :)
I live in Auckland, New Zealand where the average commute time is at least an hour each way, petrol is $3.03 a liter and public transport hugely unreliable. Many companies have downsized their space, and the last job I had where there was an office, we all went in to a serviced office one day a week, which was great. The irony was, while it was great for the team, we got very little work done. Previously in a government department where I held a senior position with my own corner in a large open plan office, I estimate that easily an average of 30% of time was wasted in deskside chats, meetings that took a long time to get to business, and very little personal accountability. Some people had to work in the office by the nature of their jobs, but most would get much more done when they worked from home, which some of us had reasonable discretion to do.
Thanks Luigi - you spin this question to another city or type of worker to see hugely different perspectives, and I appreciate yours. The context is so important, everyone needs to be a 'work-designer' today to evaluate what works best for you. I think this is a difference from the past, some people are less willing to accept blanket corporate solutions to working? I think if we ranked the most pleasant commutes around the World, the ones to Auckland would rank highly!
Thanks Andy. Auckland commutes can me very scenic, but still not something you want to do to often, whether it is for the cost or the loss of time. I would rather spend the extra 2 hours a day with my family or taking a walk in the bush or along the beach, ten minutes walk from my home :)