Woman working from home

There’s quite a lot of evidence to support the idea that remote work, or working from home (WFH), increases productivity in many industries.

However, it seems that the economic gains linked to that efficiency ramp-up are less likely to pass down to remote workers.

As a long-time lover of remote work, I’ve always cited stats like those when I defend my preferred home office. So when Redditor u/TrainingBike9702 asked the members of r/AskUK whether they “take the piss working from home,” I’ll admit I bristled.

Still, a lot of the asnwers seemed realistic. Here are some of the most-upvoted ones:

1) “It sort of works both ways. Some days it feels like I’ve done nothing but fart about, other days I can go to 7pm working.”

“Probably works out in my favour overall.”

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“Ialways think if the business wasn’t happy with my output, they would say so, so I don’t feel guilty meeting expectations and then enjoying my time left over,” u/DurgeDidNothingWrong agreed.

2) “No, I get my work done but without the pressure of needing to look busy when I’m not actually busy.”

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