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I didn’t say at all …….you just can’t do it comprehensively. Qualitative assessment of written reports for example…..maybe the report written in the office was much more difficult/much easier than the one written in the office, dealing with completely different counterparts with varying degrees...

Ok, explain how you can collect comprehensive data to meaningfully compare productivity between office working and WFH (spoiler - you can’t, least not in the environment I worked in).

Because everyone is different. The answer to the thread title may be yes or no depending on that data (if the data was reliable, which it won’t be because so much would be subjective) but people are answering for themselves, not a generalisation

This is even worse with ‘hybrid’ working. The days when everyone is mandated (for ‘team spirit’ or some other spurious reason) to go to the office are a write-off productivity-wise, as everyone has a good old catch-up over a coffee, followed by a long lunch and then go to the pub because they...

One of my old directors now works for a US bank - she has to spend 3 days a week in the office and they track this through turnstile entry. If she doesn’t do 3 days, her (US) boss gets a report and has to follow up and there are various sanctions for continuing non-compliance that are monitored...

That’s not at all how things work in corporate life unfortunately ……..anyway, retired now so all good 😊

100% this for me when I was working. Commuting time was spent mostly working, not reading the newspaper or pissing about on my ipad on the train. I still got up before 6am, and was usually working by 6.15. Apart from the ‘in office’ day being much shorter, it was punctuated with hours wasted...