Are you part of the 45% who think Home Office is less productive or perhaps the 36% who are less optimistic about their careers?


For many companies it was unthinkable for collaborators to work from home and, if they considered it, they still held the leash with some force. Now, many wonder if the new normal will extend to remote work. Will the option of getting up, having a cup of coffee and doing your daily tasks from the comfort of your home be more common? Without a doubt, there are a few buts:

  • In my house there are many distractions.
  • The internet is not that good.
  • I don't have a suitable space.
  • I need to leave my house to do my specific job.

The list goes on. However, the world has many colors, it should not be black or white, everybody at home or everybody at the office. Not everyone enjoys working from home. There is an interesting study from Hamilton Place Strategies in association with Replica, where 70% of respondents mentioned that they wanted to work in the office most of the week. What are some of their arguments?


1. Socializing and Being Part of a Community

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Something amazing about getting along with your coworkers is sharing both the difficulties / challenges and the good times. The same study cited indicated that 50% of the collaborators surveyed feel less connected to other employees working from home.

When working from home, it is more difficult to socialize, and it is not a generational problem. Say what you want about Gen Z and Millennials, but they showed in the survey that they didn't want to be known as the Zoom Gen.


81% of millennials responded that they felt less connected working from home; in the case of generation Z it was 82%.


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2. Sudden Face-to-Face Meetings

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It seems contradictory, right? With so much communication technology out there today, we still prefer to discuss a project in the hallway when we bump into each other or, if we work in an office with others, simply raise our heads and ask the collaborator next to us.

Returning to the survey, 57% of millennials stated that the time spent on video calls each day made it difficult to complete daily work; in the case of generation Z it was 61%.


“I fear this collapse in office face time will lead to a slump in innovation. The new ideas we are losing today could show up as fewer new products in 2021 and beyond, lowering long-run growth". Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University.


It may be that companies are focusing time and effort on the wrong activities. This is in part due to a fear of lack of control over employees when they are working from home.

The survey implies the desire of these generations to communicate quickly and in person to continue with their work, instead of scheduling long meetings that could be messages, waiting for everyone to connect, confirming that they see the screen and that they listen to you, etc.


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