Except for the occasional Lemmy break.
In office workers do that too. And also, taking a break at a convenient time is much less detrimental to productivity than an interruption at a random time.
Yep. In-person employees are not necessarily working just because they are in-person. Also, I call the instances where people would stop by and interrupt me “drive-bys”.
It is not just those interruptions either unless you work in a one person room at the office. I always got more annoyed by the unnecessary interruptions because of some coworker’s phone or someone coming into the 3-4 people room to ask them something when I was trying to concentrate.
How much in office work is complete time wasting bullshit that doesn’t actually have to be done?
In office: We will decide which meetings you attend. Pay attention to me, I’m important!
WFH: You will decide whether or not the meeting is even visible.
The more you’re required to be there, the higher the percentage of bullshit work, in my experience. If you have actual work, they won’t care, as long as it gets done. If it’s all bullshit, they need you to be there, because it’s not about the work, at all.
meetings too even when wfm.
I reckon I put in 5hrs / week of absolutely completely pointless meetings when I don’t speak, there are no outcomes for me, any outcomes don’t affect me, but I’m worried if I ask not to go people will think I’m slacking off.
I never really ‘clicked’ with working until I worked from home. Like, this entire huge part of me, my connection to my labor, was just not present. When I started working from home I got it. Like yeah, I’m still doing mindless corpo shit tasks and I’m completely alienated from the results of my labor, but I at least know how it feels to sit down, work hard, and feel satisfied after.
In the office, I was just coping with too much anxiety, dread, and frustration.
