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19 December 2024, 14:56
2024-12-19
IT Auditor calculated in numbers how many lives a person loses while working in an office. Did IT professionals agree with his calculations?
Andriy Beschuk, data analytics and automation auditor at Kyivstar, is sure that «working in an office means losing your own life.» He conducted research from his own experience and proved with numbers why this pompous phrase is reality. And IT people came to the comments with their arguments «for» and «against» office work. Which ones prevailed?
Andriy Beschuk, data analytics and automation auditor at Kyivstar, is sure that «working in an office means losing your own life.» He conducted research from his own experience and proved with numbers why this pompous phrase is reality. And IT people came to the comments with their arguments «for» and «against» office work. Which ones prevailed?
«The office format of work is not more efficient, but is needed only to be able to beat employees with a stick. That’s it. No exceptions. All the words about efficiency, preserving corporate culture, teamwork, etc. are all fairy tales for juniors,» emphasizes Andriy Beschuk.
Calculations that prove the theory
Remotely:
I woke up at 8 am, washed my face, brushed my teeth, ate something, got dressed in whatever I could find, and sat down to work at 9 am.
I finished work at 6 pm.
If you assume that you go to bed at 11 p.m., you still have a full 5 hours left to live.
Office:
You spend 1 hour on a marathon, because you’re in the crowd, you’re in the office. 30 minutes to have breakfast. You spend 1.5 hours on the way to the office to be there at 9. Thus, you wake up not at 8, but at 6 in the morning. The result: less sleep, less health, less mental health due to traffic jams, queues for transport, crush in the metro/minibuses, you lose money on transport, you earn brain rot, because it is almost impossible to engage in development in the metro and minibuses, and not be stuck on your phone and watching TikTok. And we’re just talking about the morning, wait.
In the office, you have to go out for lunch somewhere — it costs 250-300 UAH compared to a home-cooked meal for +/- 70 UAH. The result: we waste money or time, effort, and nerves on the food, its transportation, etc.
At 6 pm you finish work, but at best it will take you 1.5 hours to get home. All the points from the morning are repeated. You arrive home at 8:30 pm hungry and dead. You come to your senses for 1 hour. And only at 9:30 pm you are able to function again and do something. You have 1.5 hours before bed. What to do all this time? Nothing. You don’t have time for anything: neither to take up a hobby, nor to go for a walk, nor to meet friends, nor to watch and learn something, nor to clean the house — nothing adequate. The result: lost time, lack of personal life in the evenings of working days, lost money on transportation.
Let’s summarize all the results: 4 hours a day are lost due to travel and preparation for the office (count it — to nowhere, hours are forever lost to emptiness), 300-400 UAH per day is spent on travel and lunch (~8,400 UAH per month from your salary), lack of your own life, damage to physical and mental health.
What arguments do IT people have against the office?
«You can also add that unnecessary consumption of clothes and accessories is growing, from every corner you are shouted at about new trends, what to wear this season, which sports clubs to go to and where to drink coffee. I am exaggerating somewhere, but the point is the same — working in an office is more expensive. I appreciate it when the employer creates a choice and employees can choose the format they need,» — Project Manager, Natalya Gaivanovich .
«The office format of work is mostly needed by business center owners who are losing money on rent every day, starting with the pandemic. The rest just save at least an extra week of their own time, which they previously spent in traffic jams on the way to the offices, which the customer does not pay for,» — DevOps Engineer Artur .
«All people are different and that’s great. And that’s why waking up at 6:00 isn’t for everyone. I have periods when, having woken up at 6:00, I can already work at 7:00 and show really great productivity by the first day. But there are times when I barely wake up around 10:00 and sleepily go make coffee. And I’m incredibly happy that in the remote work format I can afford it and not affect other employees,» — Dmitry Khandzhanov, Frontend Developer at MOJAM .
«I agree. I’m still more productive at home, unless it concerns very specific work-related tasks. You don’t have to be distracted by the same smoke breaks (if electronic cigarette/iqos), unnecessary chatter, and you can concentrate fully on work. On the other hand, it’s very difficult without effective communication. If the only way out is the office, then that’s how it should be. But as a remote employee with experience, starting in 2020, most things can be done at home. Even better than in the office. And I’m not talking about free time, appearance, and sleep. And spending on travel,» — QA Engineer Serhiy Portov .
«I am a mother of three children. The youngest is 1.7, he is with a nanny from Monday to Friday. I tried going to the office. Everything is correct — time for meetings, time for travel, money for lunch. + I don’t see how my child is growing, the house will be unrecognizable by Friday, because there is no time to clean, wash, etc., and we, the parents, are falling off our feet. I returned to remote work — everything has stabilized,» — Head of B2B&B2C Sales Alla Balokha .
«I agree that going to the office every day is not profitable and not justified. For me, the personal benefit of working from home is that I can calmly get up and move around, do a little stretching and my back will say thank you) And the extra trip to the office and back can sometimes be more tiring than the whole working day,» — Internal Communication at lifecell, Veronika .
«I agree 100%. Remote work means comfort and more time for your own life,» — Quality Assurance Specialist Oleksandr Tsis .
«20 years in design, 11 of them freelance, or remote work format. No offices are needed for a designer to work. A designer needs a clear TOR and deadlines. A creative team is informal meetings at exhibitions, lectures, cafes, concerts, museums, galleries… something that will expand your horizons. Not an office every day,» — Graphic Designer Natalie Zabeida .
«I agree with the post, working remotely I realized the savings in time that we cannot get back,» — QA Engineer at Digital Sports Media Yaroslav Derkach .
«We forgot gasoline for the road, parking (35 UAH per hour in the center of Kyiv and the surrounding area),» — E-commerce Yevhen .
Who is «for» the office?
«I almost always worked in an office, I didn’t get beaten with sticks, working with a team is great, if you need to concentrate — I turn on my headphones and work. You’ve counted so many things there, I’ll tell you as a girl who does makeup every day, chooses what to wear, coffee, eat, relax after night prayers, etc. — in the morning it all takes me up to an hour, before I could easily combine it with walking my dog in the morning and evening. As for food: it’s cheaper for me to eat at work than to buy groceries at the store, spend a lot of time cooking, etc. I don’t know what’s stopping you from reading and other things on the road, I’ve calmly read 15 books in a year, I calmly spend time after work on personal matters, with friends, I manage to do a lot of things in the evening after work and engage in my hobbies, I learn two languages for myself, paint pictures, play sports, and travel from the left bank to the right in Kyiv to work. Instead of hating office work, it’s better to take a book on time management, and you will be happy, how to productively distribute your affairs, and not complain on the Internet about how bad everything is and what terrible companies force you to work and beat you with sticks. And anyway, waking up earlier is much better for your health than sleeping until 11 on a remote and connecting in bed, «— Talent Sourcer R&D at Ajax Systems, Svitlana Vyshvanyuk .
«I can’t concentrate at home. I’m more comfortable in the office. At home, I can work 24/7. Why? And in the office, I can stay late and go home, I can take a walk to leave my work at the office, and not carry thoughts from work home. And in general, I think that people are different and everyone has their own opinion on this situation,» — Senior technical specialist at MODUS X Yulia .
«You have described probably the worst possible working day imaginable. Which is very subjective, because my personal experience of working in an office crosses out every point you made. Even the one where you were beaten with a stick, I don’t understand why you were working there at all,» — Senior Java/Scala Developer Viktor Koshevoy .
«I have a very positive experience working in an office, so for me, on the contrary, the fact that the company has an office is only a plus. At least you can socialize there and work is somehow more fun because of that,» — Web developer Kateryna Ruchka .
