Besides their penchant to stay sloppily dressed, the survey also suggests:
- One in five telecommuters cheat their employers by working an hour each day; 17 per cent only work the bare minimum
- 40 per cent work between four to seven hours a day and only a mere 35 per cent give their employers an honest days work of eight hours or more.
- 42 per cent of women and 22 per cent of men work in their PJs (there’s no mention of sitting on the couch and eating bon bons)
- 31 per cent get distracted by household chores, while only 15 per cent say their kids interfere with work
- 26 per cent like to watch TV and another 23 per cent play with their pets instead of doing their work
So what do you think? Is this survey misguided or are work from home employees really this slovenly? [The Register]
Patrick
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:20 AMI know when I work from home I get tons more work done than when I am in the office. So even if I only worked 5 hours it would be more work completed than 7.5 hours in the office.
wsDK_II
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM+1
Mr Odd
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:36 PM+1
no co-workers dropping by
no travel
If I’m working at home alone with email and the phone off I get heaps done.
I just have to leave my PS3 and my gaming PC off until after I’ve my days work or nothing gets done.
Sally
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:40 PM+1
I generally work from home at least 1 day a week where I can, and I always get more work done than I would in the office.
Less distractions at home, and I usually put in more than 8 hours, usually 10 + hours, since I do not have to spend 3 hours travelling, so they get more out of me working from home.
Not sure where they get those figures from in the survey.
Carlos
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:15 AMThey also seem to get a days work out of me when I should have called in sick, the fact you can work from home cuts back on sick leave as well..
ozoneocean
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 1:44 PMI don’t think it really matters what a person wears or doesn’t at home…
The 8 hours thing is complete rubbish! Who works a solid 8 hours in the office? How could you do that? Especially these days. You might be there but it doesn’t mean you spend all that time “working”.
It’s really what you get done that matters.
Mr Odd
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:42 PM+1
In my last job co-workers would often drop by my office and we look at silly videos on YouTube, to “test the internet filter” ;)