And the next day, one professing the evils of the incessant noise machine wed created.
One category of employees who have a lot to say about this are the creatives.
But the same amount disagreed.
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So is time alone actually better for creativity?
Should we drag our creatives kicking and screaming back to the office?
Over the years, unsociability has been characterized as a relatively benign form of social withdrawal.
Ester Buchholz, author of The Call of Solitude, notes that alone time is fuel for life.
Lifes creative solutions require alone time.
Solitude is required for the unconscious to process and unravel problems.
If some employees prefer working from home, why not let them?
It also helps creatives avoid unwanted distractions.
Every time you switch your attention from one target to another and then back again, theres a cost.
Creatives who worked from home experienced less of this.
As a consequence, they were able to increase their output.
But when doing monotonous activities, your prefrontal cortex is relaxed as youre on autopilot mode.
I love roller skating, and I get a lot of my ideas there.
With the pandemic, there was a lost sense of control with managing peoples time.
It turned out as long as they delivered the results, it doesnt matter how people managed their time.
There is a reason for taking the shackles off the fixed working hours in favor of creativity.
Let your creatives be free to decide their schedule as long as theyre on track with work.
There was no way to avoid that in an office setup.
Some have continued with that mindset usingZoomor Teams to check-in constantly,much to the annoyance of employees.
One aspect studied by the authors was piggybacking building on the ideas of others.
The study found that team cohesiveness was influenced by increased instances of piggybacking.
For introverts, working remotely opens a lot of things.
An introvert may have great ideas but in a face-to-face context, they may feel intimidated to share them.
No one should be able to notice that.
Technology has been crucial in the transformation of work from the office to work from home.
Among creatives, this figure rose to 70%.
Its clear that hybrid working structures that take individuals creativity preferences into account will be the way forward.
