I found out years ago how good us Americans have it when in the same week it was “to nice out” and on another day “to cloudy to dreary” to work.
#officework #devs #whitecolor #shinanigans

#GregoryAlanWilliams

Season 3 Episode 6 "Showdown at Malibu Beach High"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #ShowdownAtMalibuBeachHigh #Filing #OfficeWork

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
Warehouse-style employee tracking tech has expanded into job after job. Now, as millions are called back to the workplace, it’s finally coming for the office worker. https://www.wired.com/story/your-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-this-surveillance-tech-could-be-waiting-for-you/ #surveillance #privacy #work #tech #officeWork

Rain is a Thing

So rain is still a thing. I mean this from a work point of view.

When Covid hit and we all started working from home full time, I learned to stop really worrying about rain. I didn’t have a commute anymore so I didn’t need to drive to and from work in the rain. I didn’t need to walk out to a parking lot in the rain. I didn’t even need to walk to the driveway. From the perspective of getting to and from work rain (and snow) stopped being a concern at all.

Now that we’re back in the office at least some of the time it’s a thing again and it sucks.

It is pouring rain today. I’m looking out the window and the parking lot looks like a small lake. I have to drive to a different building soon and that means I have to go out in this suck-fest of a rain storm and get drenched so that I can make the next meeting.

Working at home is so much better than working in the office. So much better.

Thus concludes this morning’s rant about rain. Thank you for your time and patience.

#commute #drive #nature #officeWork #parkingLot #Rain #rainStorm #storm #stormyWeather #Travel #travelToWork #water #Weather #work

My bottom hurts from sitting down all day.

#StrangeButTrue
#officeWork

I'm planning to put Linux on my laptop over Thanksgiving break because it's now out of warranty and I'm tired of Windows.

In a team meeting yesterday, my new favorite coworker and I went off about whether I should put a distro with KDE Plasma on it or skip the DE entirely. Everybody else in the room was totally lost. Everybody but one guy seemed happy enough with Windows. We turned to that one last guy and asked his opinion, and he just went "I like macs."

I love this team.

#Engineering #OfficeWork #Linux

Sitting on a literal all-day conference call is awful.

Doing it when we're expected to have cameras on and be visibly "engaged" the whole time is fucking murder. Even with scheduled breaks, ADHD is making it surprisingly hard to simultaneously pay attention *and look like* I'm paying attention.

#ADHD #OfficeWork

«It's about real estate», stupid https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad #remotework #officework

Focusing on results or efficiency when discussing remote vs. in-office work is the wrong debate; it's not objective. You can find hundreds of good and bad examples for both ways.

The story should be if these decisions hide a way of firing people for free or hijacking people's time. The favorite ace up your sleeve to look good in front of investors: downsize your staff without spending money on severance pay.

https://activity.andros.dev/@important_dev_news/statuses/01J7YH6Z5BKGP79BJ72T3NJV3M

#amazon #officework #remotework

So, when you're in a Zoom meeting for work... do you play music in the background so you don't die of boredom? Or is that just me? If you do, what's your go-to meeting soundtrack?

#OfficeLife #OfficeWork #RemoteWork

Abendsport: Einkommensteuererklärung zurück vom Steuerberater Korrektur lesen #selbständig #business #officework #wasgemachtwerdenmuss

Baldur Bjarnason astutely defines the latest #AI and #OfficeWork surveys as "just measuring people’s sentiment towards the tool." Not actually capturing if it is helping productivity.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-other-ai-shoe-dropping/

Visitor in the #office
#work #officework #butterfly #butterflies

Really don’t want to work on a lovely day like this. Which is good, as my masters don’t seem to want to set me anything much to do. #OfficeWork

Jeder kennt sie – und auch bei uns fallen öfters klassische Büro-Sprüche😅

Wir haben im Video ein paar audius-typische Aussagen gesammelt. Wem von Euch sind
diese Sprüche auch schon mal auf den Bürogängen begegnet?😆

#audiusgroup #erfolgdurchzuhoeren #officehumor #officework #buerosprueche

“We have a lot of people asking for in-person events, but when we plan them, they don’t show up,” Ramot says. “Then they complain they’re lonely.” #remotework #officelife #officework It's an interesting question how to build culture within an organization.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/american-workers-loneliness-research-35793dc4?st=zzaawqud9sjsdpi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink?utm_source=digg

Corpo overlords getting rid of "Slack" in favor of "Teams". I wish I could say this is their dumbest decision.... #OfficeWork

Dell Release UltraSharp 34 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor Globally: https://www.reviewspace.info/dell-release-ultrasharp-34-curved-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-globally

#Dell #UltraSharpMonitor #U3425WE #ThunderboltHub #Productivity #OfficeWork #WQHD #ColorAccuracy #TechnologyNews

#Work #RemoteWork #RTO #Productivity #OfficeWork: "For a clearer look at the effect of RTO policies after the pandemic, two business researchers at the University of Pittsburgh examined a sample of firms on the S&P 500 list—137 of which had RTO mandates and 320 that clearly did not between June 2019 and January 2023. The researchers collected publicly available data on each company, including financial data and employee reviews. They then looked at what factors were linked to whether a firm implemented an RTO policy—such as the company's size, financial constraints, and CEO characteristics—as well as the consequences of the RTO mandates—employee satisfaction and financial metrics of the firms.

Overall, the analysis, released as a pre-print, found that RTO mandates did not improve a firm's financial metrics, but they did decrease employee satisfaction.

Drilling down, the data indicated that RTO mandates were linked to firms with male CEOs who had greater power in the company. Here, power is measured as the CEO’s total compensation divided by the average total compensation paid to the four highest-paid executives in the firm.

Before the analysis, the researchers hypothesized that RTO mandates may be used to blame employees for poor firm performance. But, companies that have institutional ownership—such as hedge funds or endowments—would not fall for such a "blame game" and would thus would be less likely to implement an RTO mandate. The data supported those hypotheses. Firms with weaker stock performance before employees were able to return to the office were more likely to enforce RTO mandates. However, institutional ownership decreased the probability of RTO mandates.

Although CEOs often justified RTO mandates by arguing it will improve the company's performance, "Results of our determinant analyses are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/rto-doesnt-improve-company-value-but-does-make-employees-miserable-study/

https://trycatchdebug.net/news/1108688/ai-in-the-office-vs-remote-work-debate?utm_source=mastodon #ArtificialIntelligence #Productivity #RemoteWork #OfficeWork
A new perspective allows us to analyze data regarding the advantages and disadvantages of telework versus office work. Recent studies suggest that executives are not making decisions based on data in the office but on their opinions and biases. The productivity debate is one of the most prominent issues in these discussions, and the 'gr