Are remote workers really working all day? Here's what they're doing instead
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Remote workers often brag about how productive they are at home, but a new survey sheds light on what they're really doing all day.

My favorite quote:

While employees in the office might kill time messaging friends or flipping through TikTok, remote workers take advantage of being far from the watchful gaze of bosses to chip away at personal to-do lists or to goof off.

Nearly half of remote workers multitask on work calls or complete household chores like unloading the dishwasher or doing a load of laundry, according to the SurveyMonkey poll of 3,117 full-time workers in the U.S.

Oh noes, people actually doing things that are useful for their families instead of even more computer time.

It’s insane that this is even considered strange or surprising. When I work from home, I take longer lunch breaks and I often stop working earlier, but I’m still three times as productive compared to sitting in an office.

At home, I actually get focused time to do something and think. At the office, this is extreamly difficult with all the distractions and noise constantly interrupting my train of thought.

  • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
    691·
    2 months ago

    You think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the shareholders and landlords.

    They dont even have to pretend to work to get paid.

      • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
        61·
        2 months ago

        Thats exactly what I mean. My aim is to point out the ridiculousness of them trying to moralise it, by making the people who ease off a little bit to put to washing on out to be lazy and undeserving of their wages etc.

        That wrath for people not working or “slacking off” slightly while getting paid is only reserved for poor people.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          51·
          2 months ago

          The regime relies on plebs larping this bushit.

          If tomorrow every fucking wage slave got a pair of balls and started acting like daddy capitalist, half of issues would be solved and parasites would be punished.

          But instead of we got bootlickers serving as regime enforcers 🤡

          • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’m not sure I get what you’re saying tbh. I’ve probably read it wrong but it almost seems like you’re saying the way out of capitalism is to capitalism harder.

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
              1·
              2 months ago

              There is nothing capitalism about advocating for yourself but some how regime was able to convince people that only capitalist are allowed to do it and peasants agreed to larp at disadvantage to themselves… Adult people 🤡