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.

  • exanime@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
    123·
    2 years ago

    Gotta love how the articles frames it. While at work people “kill time” with tik tok but at home they “goof off” folding laundry

        • exanime@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
          18·
          2 years ago

          I can tell you it wouldn’t… We usually do not have multiple words because they are completely and 100% interchangeable.

          It is the exact same message manipulation when a cop outright murders someone the headline often says something super tangential like “Perp lost life in altercation with police”… words matter and you’d expect journalist to know this

        • inbeesee@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Killing time implies you have time to kill. Goofing off implies avoiding work you need to do.

    • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’m killing time right now because there’s nothing to do but yet I can’t go home and clean up the clutter that’s accumulated from being stuck at work all day with nothing to do.