“ The company kept saying we will be more productive at the office. That's the opposite of what I am seeing. My team is now taking longer for cards, and the amount of time wasted in the office is ridiculous. The number of people, mindless walking around, chit-chatting in cubicles, going out for lunch/ coffee breaks just to fill in the time is a joke”
You mean congregating like actual people. Not making snacks in your “private upstairs kitchen” and eating them in your pajamas?
Because to make something actually useful (rather than something technically perfect but useless) your team needs to be the kind of gestalt entity that chatting about the sports team helps to create?
Hopefully congregating is more for you than just gathering for work.
I prefer wfh for the very reason that it allows me to congregate more - early morning surfing with friends, midday gym with friends, afternoon training with friends, evening dinner with friends. All far easier to do when you’re not tied to a particular location all day. Doubly so when factoring in commute.
I definitely have much more time to myself with WFH, by orders of magnitude.
I can even get things done on public transit at a reasonable time when I have important errands to run! Because half the city isn't taking the train into the peninsula for no reason other than micromanagement. Honestly, this is the more interesting part to me. People that absolutely can't WFH by nature of job duties have much less traffic and craziness and delays to deal with as a side effect of the majority of the city WFHing - this greatly helps people that can't afford to live in the downtown CBD zones of major cities, for instance.
Profit comes from the difference between the hours you work producing value the cover your own salary and the excess hours that go to the company. It is simple extraction like bee keepers taking honey from a colony. We're the bees.
You mean congregating like actual people. Not making snacks in your “private upstairs kitchen” and eating them in your pajamas?