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people slacking at home slack in office as well no? We've had to experiment with work from home worldwide because of covid. Overall I'm not observing reduced (or improved) productivity

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Is it so hard to imagine that people who are home, surrounded by a spouse/so, perhaps children, entertainment systems, a fridge, a bed, no one looking at their monitor, etc... aren't on average more distracted?

I certainly am. We are only human.

I'm certainly not more distracted. Everything you've described is far less distracting to me than your average open office plan.

I am equally distracted at home or office, just by different things. At home, kids, fridge, etc. At the office I lose time to the commute, to moving my car every two hours, to office conversations, etc. I burn time reading HN, watching basketball stats and researching roadtrips from either location so they even out.

It really depends on your industry, doesn't it?

Supply chain worldwide is still broken due to Covid (China's closure of multiple cities recently), so...

How can we tell to what effect WFH has had to make supply chain worse? If some percentage of people are pretending to work, why couldn't that worsen the issues by some other percentage?

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