Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I am such an interface, a "shift supervisor" between production and office.. I have witnessed the development and growth of our company. But since Corona, everyone somehow insists on working from home.
There were people who should never have been allowed to go to the office.. they were sent home just because they sit at the PC, now they insist on it.

The worst thing is I feel like I write 50 emails a day, which I could have clarified in a personal conversation in minutes before Corona.. that doesn’t exist anymore.

As an example, re-measuring on the system is then postponed to the day when you are on site.
In between, maybe something new is started and the old thing is left unfinished. That is not productive..

Or developing ideas together and discussing them directly on the spot doesn’t happen anymore. You can notice every day that this leads to a lot of rubbish.

But the bureaucracy keeps getting bigger.

Or developing ideas together and discussing them directly on the spot no longer exists. You notice daily that a lot of nonsense comes out of it.

And you just have that creative meeting like that, without prior planning? Just an ad-hoc working group without preparation? Don't people have anything else to do that you just pull together an ad-hoc team without coordination? And everyone has to be present and do something concrete with an object?

Don't get me wrong, Gemba, personal exchange, nice conversations between colleagues & an understanding of the bigger picture are also needed. But for that, you don't need 5 x 9-to-5 like before. For that, you need a reasonable environment, self-organization, flexibility & trust and clear goals.

I think we are currently in a transitional phase in this regard. Both the work processes, self-organization, and also the self-understanding of [AG] and [AN] cannot adapt overnight. It also took me some time until I felt I was working effectively from home. As I said… I have been doing this for 20 years, but the “adjustment period” definitely took a while. Today, it would probably be twice as fast due to faster internet and better communication tools. In any case, I enjoy the freedom to work wherever I want and also whenever I want… Self-discipline, however, is very, very important ;)

The worst thing is I feel like I write 50 emails a day, which I could have clarified in a personal conversation in minutes before corona.. that no longer exists.

But what prevents one from just calling briefly? I'm not a huge fan of Teams, but instead of sitting with 3 people in front of a computer, you can now simply share the screen and everyone sees the same thing.

and with tools like Miro, even workshops and mind mapping work really well. Sometimes better than in real life. The only thing that doesn't work well are group discussions with more than three to five people. But that also only works to a limited extent in real life.

One loses the desire to write here... There was nothing offensive written here and yet it has been deleted again.

This thread was already over 2000 pages and now it is back to 1954..