Posted on 06/18/2022 12:05:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I retired three months after the “two weeks to stop the spread”. My retirement was planned and all the paperwork had already been completed. My final three months of work was done from home. I was an absolute slave to my computer and email. The dining room table was turned into my desk and office space. I took fewer breaks than when I was at the office.
Those that are responsible at the office, continued to be responsible when working from home. Those that were slackers when physically at the office, took advantage of the WFH requirements and were less productive than when at the office. A lot of people are actually more productive when working from home as they budget their time, spend less time on commuting, and manage their work and home balance more efficiently. Many employers are pleased with the arrangement because it actually saves them money given they do not have to provide a physical working space for as many employees as previously.
“But maybe instead he’s running a classic pump-and-dump.”
Also known as the billionaire’s version of whistling past the graveyard.
I found the office to be distracting. I burned 30-45 minutes one way to commute, then the workday is a lot of meetings and heads down coding, but the distractions, the drive-bys, the hallway and break room meetings that waste 30 minutes in some cases... I miss the human interaction but not the distractions.
If it kills all these Reddit high horses who think they have all the power I’m all for it.
Considering the ever-rising cost of gas, those who have a long commute would be way better off working at home if they can.
People are never going back to the office full time if they were sent home to work at this point in time. The genie has been let out of the bottle.
The point of the question is not whether they will go back to work, but will they go back to work at home or go back to work in a brick and steel office building.
An argument can be made that anyone out of sight will be out of mind and much more easily fired, sight unseen. A worker right under the boss's nose has an upper hand at lobbying to keep his job and influencing the boss to get rid of the slackers who are never seen working.
My last nine years of employment before I retired, was as a consultant with a Manager, Sr. Manager or VP that I at various times reported to, was always in a distant city so it didn't matter that I worked from home remotely. I never saw them but once a year and a couple of them I have never met to this day.
Then again, I worked for Verizon in the business of selling the ability to allow employees to work remotely, so there was that.
Therefore I suspect that it will depend on the job. If employees work for an employer that maintains a group or section of workers in the traditional way, for their own benefit they will go back to the workplace. Employees in a position where the company has no benefit in maintaining a workplace, the workers will continue to work at home and the company reduces the overhead. After all, spreadsheets, word documents and PowerPoint presentations seem made for communicating productivity from home remotely. If the numbers look good, it shouldn't matter where you compile them.
I actually make sure I do my job when working from home. I’m really hoping I’m not some exception to the rule with at-home workers. I love remote working.
And then they can collect Bidenflation bux and continue the welfare dependency spiral . . .
Sounds like someone talking up office space that he has a glut of and cant lease out.
There are already people who are quitting their jobs because they cannot afford the gasoline to go to work.
Any business owner whose employees are performing well working remotely would be a fool to go back to leasing a building where he or she is at the mercy of people like Ross, agencies like OSHA, and the utility payments are murder.
If a face-to-face touch base is needed, book meeting space in a business hotel once a month or so.
Hi!
I have no real issue with folks working at home.
If they are working.
Many are! Depending on the job, it can be done and done well from home!!
But a lot of folks are not even looking for jobs (office factory field or telecommuting). They’re just enjoying the Free Rides .... watching football games and Oprah reruns all day instead of contributing anything to society
Nope.
Middle Management can’t stand having workers at home.
They’ll drive the change back.
Gas prices make it hard
Want to bet? In about 8 months many, many people are going to be begging for a job. Any job.
Some of you people are way to pessimistic- we have to burn thru 6 million jobs net open vs looking to even get to neutral. We only lost 8.8 million in 2008-09 and this won’t be nearly as bad.
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