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1/ As I sit waiting for 9:30am Zoom meeting on Saturday (& on my birthday) to get clarifications on a policy change for this quarter, I really wonder how academics think they/others should be as/more productive with WFH. Just mathematically: where are the hours coming from?
2/ Academics tend to have short commute times (given that we relocate to our jobs) so no big gains there. Administrative tasks? The same load, at best. Home tasks? More people, more house tasks even if you don't have kids (cleaning, laundry, dishes, cooking, trash, etc.).
3/ Teaching tasks? If you take that part of your job *at all* seriously you've realized the amount of additional work you need to transition your class online. Some of you don't. You're the ones who are going to blame the students for being "unmotivated" or "disinterested" .
4/ So...everything else remains, at best, the same. And yet, suddenly, we have more time for research?
5/ BTW, I am fully aware there are academics who never learned healthy coping mechanisms, and are instead channeling that into (sloppy) research b/c it's easier to find an answer in a setting using methods they know than processing their own emotions in times of uncertainty.
6/ I just you less... as long as you recognize and do not impose your dysfunction on your students, pre/post-docs, staff, partners, or children.
Also: read this thread: 7/ Also, read this thread: https://twitter.com/ProfPieters/status/1240383400910995457
Also: read this thread: 7/ Also, read this thread: https://twitter.com/ProfPieters/status/1240383400910995457
