General Discussions

[Lods]

Yes, there are benefits of working from home.  There are also negatives.  It is dependent on size, purpose of org and management.

- General productivity and communication is dropping as people get comfortable with it.
- There are more taking the P!ss with it again.
- Lose the water cooler idea sharing/venting
- Lose relationship with teams

Yes, local business benefit (by the time I think about lunch, get organised to get it, then eat it takes longer than at an office - so is the extra time made up?), but those that invested in their retail/hospitality business in CBD or other centres lose out.

Yes, there's a fair bit of for and against.
It may be that we're in a bit of a honeymoon period with the productivity side of things in some jobs.
Folks will embrace it with different levels of enthusiasm and commitment.
How will that go over time?

What happens to all the office spaces in the middle of town?
Change to accomodation maybe...and that has a flow on effect to local shops.
It may be a bit early to make some judgements on the long term effects of more people working at home.

In my own profession of teaching, some aspects are easily adopted to distance learning.
We've been doing it for a while with correspondence school and school of the air etc
Discipline issues would largely disappear with the press of a button
But there's a downside in terms of the social interaction of kids and the development of some life-long friendships and connections.

We've seen how it would operate in some excellent documentary series like the "Jetsons".
But I'm not sure it would all be "Happy Days"