You’d think companies that had their employees work from home weren’t that productive during that period. Turns out many studies are showing increased productivity from remote work and acknowledging that employees are going to take micro-breaks and that this can increase productivity. Employers are just sore that their beautiful and expensive offices are empty. They just want butts in seats so the real estate/facilities executives can justify their existence and dumb decisions. The cruelty is the point.
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Had the same thought.
Go touch some grass. I guarantee you need It.
Theres websites there you can check on server status
I’d rather have that than the last played bar. Just even a link to the realm status page.
Yes there is…Here
Yes, half an hour after I posted about the Realm Status page being incorrect… it is now accurately showing realm status…
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They all show as down for me. Blizzard probably needs to turn off browser caching for the page.
There’s no saying it was incorrect, the servers were likely up but the outside connections shut off
When you have Stacy using mouse hacks to “work” while she’s off to go do her free time during work hours, of course so many people are preaching WFH policies
Because returning to the office will expose them what they really do
That’s why I really agree with blizzards return to office policies they put out
Let the the Stacy’s/Andy’s quit because they “get mad” for working in the office
Go back in the over saturated market where Microsoft, Google, Facebook already did their mass layoffs
Hire new blood that WANTS to work
You’re just going to go on the record and state that you believe that the primary productivity indicator is that your chat program shows a green dot?
I’m not sure exactly what this means–I think there may be some errors in your writing–but no, I don’t want companies to return to the office full time. Breaks exist, by the way. They actually make you more productive.
I work at a computer, tabbing into a video game for 5 mins is hardly insult worthy.
As I stated in the text you quoted, the realm status page was wrong for several hours today. It listed them all as being up when they were not up, or at least were not accessible. The website is not useful if it’s not reliable.
This couldn’t be less on topic. This is not the place to debate the nuance of corporate work-life balance.
But since you brought it up, Blizzard made the best expansion they have ever made, Dragonflight, while entirely working from home. Happy employees are good employees. And I promise you that no well-treated and well-respected employee is using jiglers. They also aren’t having their “productivity” monitored by their superiors in a way that would allow a jigler to be useful at all.
If you want the least possible work out of me, buy my time and monitor to make sure I’m active. If you want quality work out of me, show me some respect and let me do my thing. I promise that the latter nets better results than the former.
It’s something even LOTRO does! And LOTRO is a FTP MMO!
You mean the one ad you can easily click off and isn’t a bother in any meaningful way? That ad?
You could always work instead of playing games, then check it when you get off work instead of waiting for maintenance to be over while you’re working.
That’d cost you a raid tier I’m afraid 
Sorry, dad. I’ll try harder.
Have you guys really never heard of a break?
You’re welcome
If you read the post to which you replied, or half of the replies in this thread, you’d see that I specifically said the realm status page was wrong all morning and said the servers were online when they were not. In fact, there has been a good bit of discussion about that specific thing.