(Virtually nobody who knows me professionally would recognize me from my early to mid twenties, because deep disengagement meant it would take me six weeks to half-keister a two day task. There are a lot of orgs where that is Meets Expectations.)
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I think reseach would not confirm that office helps with focus and engagement. Many long-time remote workers claim the opposite and that they had to consciuosly limit how much/intensly they work to avoid overwork. How do office coffee breaks, interruptions and meetings help?
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I think that is heavily heterogenous, yeah.
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It's not just "up to the employee" though. The manager and company have a big role in determining which category people end up in.
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"Lazy" is pulling a lot of unearned weight in this analysis, I think. "Disengaged", as a concept, will yield much more useful insights. "Laziness" tries to sweep away structural causes of disengagement in favor of a simplistic pigeonholing of individual people.
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More context: “Knowledge work has a built-in agency conflict: output is a function of skill and focus, skill comes from legitimate interest in a field, and that legitimate interest means that spending your entire workday on an Internet-connected device is incredibly distracting.”
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I like your framing of fit a lot more than engagement. I think people sometimes think there's a lack of engagement, when really the person is a poor fit, working hard on things no one cares about at the expense of more important tasks.
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Honestly I wonder how much of this is undiagnosed problems. I could work so so so quickly at 23. Then one project I worked 60+ hour weeks and I got a burn out that I never recovered from. I've never felt that I've worked as quickly as before.
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I'd find it so hard to focus from then on. Gradually worse and worse. Even years after switching jobs. Started getting called into meetings with my manager because a teammate was complaining about my slowness. Psych told me adults can develop ADD. Adderall fixed me for ~6mos.
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