The company at which I am contracted recently bough a new headquarters. There is an open floor plan, but numerous miscellaneous offices, all underutilized:
Focus Rooms
Phone Rooms
Bookable Offices
Huddle Rooms
Meeting Rooms
Nursing Rooms
etc.
Plus break rooms, common areas, exercise rooms, etc.
Further, depending on the day of the week, anywhere between 25-80% (Friday) of employees work remote.
It is a comfortable setup (I often take a bookable office, as I am loud, and annoy the people near me), but not very efficient.
And one of the reasons while the suburbs, quiet country towns, rural towns are being destroyed by liberals.
I'm old enough to have spent all my working life in offices. Some people would goof off if they could get away with it. I imagine it's easier to goof off at home.
How do you build something like a house or ship working at home?
Most those at home jobs will be replaced by AI in a few years.
I need a computer to help me do my job, but I could do without it.
If you have zero inter-personal value, that means your skill set is begging to be converted into computer code.
I’ve been 100% remote since Covid. I’m not going back to the office. There is no upside in it for me.
Oddly there is more traffic going to and from NYC and New Jersey from Long Island than I’ve ever seen in forty two years. Even more oddly it’s more backed up during office hours than it is during rush hour and it’s the worst I’ve seen at rush hour.
Glad I retired back in 2018.. if I was still working I’d be involved in numerous HR lawsuits by the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ freak show and anyone playing the work from home BS would have been fired.
The folks around me called me Mr Sensitivity because I didn’t give a shxt about your personal problems because you leave them home not at work. I wouldn’t deal with any of the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ crowd because I wouldn’t have some freak make the rest of the normal people feel uncomfortable. My team liked me and how I worked and when I hired someone they knew that person would fit in.
My response to the work at home crowd would be “Get your MF azz back to work now or you’re fired”.
A I is already replacing many of the paper-pushing make work jobs.
I’ve had the experience of working in office environments that featured aisles of cubicles on every floor until renovations opened everything up. It was kinda creepy after that... and I’ve also worked in open-floored offices where the lighting was very dim for better computer monitor-viewing (CAD), and that was kinda creepy too because there was hardly ever a sound made by anyone. I’d like to see a return to office cubicles and working in-office. It’s nice to have a kind of home away from home, just not too far from home.
Yes, WH is hear to stay, especially “hybrid” models which allow workers to retain some of the positives of gathering and being together in person.
Obviously, WFH fits some “jobs” more than others.