{"id":13369,"date":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2020-12-20T20:46:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:46:49","slug":"wfh-v-wfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13369","title":{"rendered":"WFH v WFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

this thought was inspired by Masher<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the peculiar things about Working From Home full-time for almost a year, is my productivity. It’s sky-high. Starting a day at 7am is routine, finishing at 6.30pm is normal (except for the at least once-weekly network changes, which don’t usually conclude much before 11pm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all do a little extra over and above our normal working week for our employers, but that’s 50-60 hours\/week, far in excess of my contracted 37 hours\/week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masher was musing about what he missed from his commute (I’d guessed that podcasts would be on the list). But it set me thinking about what I missed from my commute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My commute is 16 minutes on the Ninja, or 28 minutes in the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hold on, that’s not quite right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Ninja, I’d miss filtering. The A52 is a big pile of problems at the best of times, but the added challenge of filtering through 2-3 lanes of traffic (most of which is trying to kill the Ninja or me and sometimes both of us) at speed (because, frankly, that’s the only way to filter) is a large shot of supercharged adrenaline that nothing else on this earth comes close to matching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the thing I do miss about WFH isn’t the underwear-discolouring adrenaline high of filtering through multiple lanes of traffic, some of which is routinely driven by National Village Idiot Formation Driving Team. No, the thing I miss about WFH is the softer side of working. Remote technology and collaboration tools are really excellent devices, but sometimes we need a softer side to working with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laying in a Teams call, no matter what the topic, brings with it an air of formality that pitching up at a colleague’s desk with a mug of hot chocolate doesn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitting next to a close colleague, having a social chat about a mutual interest and, after a couple of minutes, asking a question, clarifying a point or getting a better understanding of a thing or a person or getting a better picture of their conflicting pressures are softer conversations that are easier, these chats have more value, these discussions have a level of… quality. Quality that Teams calls or IM chats just don’t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent conversation I was asked which I preferred, WFH or WFO. It was an easy question to hand-off. I’m 60\/40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My preference is sixty percent WFH, 40 percent WFO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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