三和一善 リモートワークからオフィスに戻りたくない理由（マネージメントセミナー）

 

The hidden reasons people don't want to go back to the office

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article showing that some "family members" — those who stay away from the office and prefer to work from home — have a secret: They have two jobs. The full-time work-from-home requirement is clearly not enough to deter some people from taking on extra work.

 

In one disturbing example, a Washington, D.C. vice-chancellor was found to be serving as a principal in Rhode Island. No one noticed the performance drop. Indeed, his skills were praised. His part-time job is a duplicity to the citizens of Washington and Providence—parents and students alike. The DC Ethics Committee takes this very seriously, with thousands of dollars in fines and a year in prison pending in addition to the dismissal.

 

Taking a second job is nothing new. Moonlight is as old as moonlight. Most Moonlighters hover around federally mandated livable wages and are disproportionately female and single parents. These people need additional funding.

 

That's not the case with today's remote workers. Ziprecruiter reports that remote workers earn an average of $66,000 a year, well above livable wages. The Wall Street Journal reported that the people they interviewed could expect to earn between $200,000 and $600,000 a year from the extra work. This is fundamentally different from someone who does landscaping during the day and a restaurant kitchen at night.

 

Homer is taking advantage of the situation.

 

How can this be? Maybe it's a lack of regulation. Remote is hard to manage, let alone lead. Virtual leadership is a mystery. The nature of remote work allows for minimal acceptable performance and weak means of execution. There is no established mechanism for supervisors to insist on excellence or assign auxiliary tasks. Moreover, there is no convincing evidence that remote work is as productive as office work. Remote workers can call (zoom in) it.

 

If people in high-paying remote jobs can work part-time part-time, why not get another job? Why not increase your income? That's just rational. Self-interest is a powerful motivator.

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So that's the why and how of home runs. But how common is it? Do part-timers think this will affect their performance?

 

I asked two questions on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) and got 1,022 qualified respondents. They are all full-time office employees, not independent owners or consultants, and at least 80% have been working from home since April 2020. The average age was 34, with a range of 26 to 44. 58% were male and 42% were female. These demographics align perfectly with a study recently reported by Fast Company that found that millennials are more opposed to returning to the office than the other two generations occupying the workforce, Generation X and Baby Boomers.

 

The first question is:

Have you worked outside of your primary job since working remotely? If yes, how many hours per week on average?

The result is as follows:

57% of remote workers only do their primary job. They are very busy. A significant number (18%) reported that they may have held some part-time jobs before working remotely. Maybe these hours come from entrepreneurs who have recruited some part-time talent. A large percentage (13%) admitted to working 10 to 20 hours for another company. Perhaps this part-time job is a labor of love. Eight percent said they worked 20-30 hours outside of their main job. 4% reported working two jobs at the same time.

12% of respondents work 20 hours or more with a company other than their primary employer.

The second question is:

To what extent do you think the extra work you take on will negatively affect your performance in your main job?

It is rated on a scale of 1-5: 1 = none at all; 2 = little; 3 = somewhat; 4 = significant and; 5 = severe.

The result is as follows:

Those who do not work outside the main office answered 1, of course "not at all". Those who worked 5 to 10 hours outside the office felt that their performance "suffered a little." Those who truce 10 to 20 hours a week admitted to a drop in performance, averaging between "a little" and "somewhat." The 20-30 hour crowd at a body weight of 3.1 admitted more than a noticeable drop in performance. Those who worked 40 hours or more outside of their primary job responded almost identically to those who worked 20-30 hours part-time outside of their primary job.

 

What's going on here? We expect a clear upward pattern of perceived decline in performance from time spent working outside of primary work to more. This model is for those who work part-time for 20-30 hours but work part-time for 30 hours or more outside of their main job.