Posted on 05/16/2021 1:07:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Rich Lesser, the chief executive officer of Boston Consulting Group, gathered with his executives Friday in the wake of the CDC’s new guidance that says vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks and observe social distancing in most instances.
At issue is whether the relaxed rules change how quickly BCG and other companies should bring workers back into skyscrapers from Manhattan to San Francisco.
“It was a surprising decision,” Mr. Lesser said of the new federal guidelines. He said BCG executives would be holding more meetings to think through the company’s plans on Sunday and Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidance on Thursday threw a new wrinkle into reopening plans, raising questions about whether to speed up office-return dates. Whether companies change course quickly depends, in part, on local laws governing office capacity and masks, as well as the comfort level of employees being asked to return, executives said.
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Many companies aren’t bringing workers back to the offices. They figured out it’s cheaper to have them work from home.
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Here I was thinking that it was because: (1) sewage runs downhill, and (2) higher elevations flood last. :-)
Productivity has suffered from being out of the office.
I have yet to see any definitive study that has determined this conclusively. I suspect there's a high degree of variation among industries for this. And a lot of it is based on how productivity is measured. A person working from home may complete less work in a defined period of time (hour, day, week, etc.) than one in the office, but I'll bet that any industry that could function for six weeks or longer with most of their staff working from home has found that these staff are far more productive when measured by the overhead costs of the company.
Any CEO with half a brain is surely looking at a laundry list of COST efficiencies that can be permanently established if most office staff are working from home.
1. Employees save a ton of commuting time and expense (at least in major cities).
2. Workers Compensation Insurance premiums will almost certainly be lower.
3. #MeToo issues will practically disappear. Heck, the HR department can be shrunk to 10% of its previous size.
4. Many employees will place a high value on the flexibility of their schedules that comes with working from home. The most remarkable example I can think of comes from one of my own clients. I've been working closely with him for more than a year now, and we have web meetings at least 2-3 times in an average week. Six months ago he moved to a small town 75 miles away from the city where his employer is located ... and I just learned about it last week. LOL.
If they require employees take any of these experimental treatments (they're not vaccines), the companies need to exposed, charged, and dissolved if necessary. Their behavior is no different than korporations who committed atrocities in Nazi Germany. The city of Nuremberg, Germany can host the trials - again.
Forcing experimental treatment on individuals was specifically addressed in the permissible experiments section of the Nuremberg Code in 1947. (http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/).
"The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:"
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision."
"The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity."
"The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury."
"Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death."
"The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment."
"During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible."
Reigning in tyrannical government is only part of the effort. Reigning in the korporations supporting such a tyrannical government is another.
Requiring people to mask up all day is a huge deterrent for most. If people want to quit rather than go back, I’m sure there are plenty of eager people that want a job to take their place. I think it’s good to be at the office, especially the young people.
My wife’s employer sent out a policy to sign requiring the COVID-19 vaccine. She’s currently remote and they insisted she get the vaccine done or she would be let go.
Apparently, a number of co-workers onsite got it, yelled over it, and choose to not get it, simply choosing to get another job and turning in their resignations.
My wife told them she was leaving this past week. They said they had rescinded the policy after loosing many of their most productive workers and that the policy change would be permanent, if that would be enough to help her reconsider.
Yep. They want everyone spending thousands on fuel, clothing, cars, repairs, while the dopes sit in traffic 1.5 hours daily, no pay dead time, to operate the same computer they have at home.
At my large company, working from home has been very productive across the board. Agile teams continue all the same practices and everyone still supports them as needed. Management continues its meetings, too, and we are going to a model for a while where we might come in for a team building day or a week per quarter, but after that, it is expected to go 100% remote again, permanently.
Already, minor centers of my company around the country are 100% remote and the buildings are closed down and leases ended or buildings owned, sold.
OSHA just ruled that any employer mandating the covid jabs will have to pay if the employee gets injured from them. This was put out this weekend. It will be considered a workplace incident.
“If you require your employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment (i.e., for work-related reasons), then any adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is work-related. The adverse reaction is recordable if it is a new case under 29 CFR 1904.6 and meets one or more of the general recording criteria in 29 CFR 1904.7.”
My friend is staff at a big pharma headquarters, and they’ve just been told they’ll be going virtual pretty much forever — unless/until something unforeseen changes. Virtual-only during the scamdemic seemed to work well for them.
As a career corporate IT worker, I read most of the FR threads regarding the offshoring of IT work to foreign countries, and the problems that resulted from the time lag of 18 hour delays in communications.
I wrote about how foreign IT workers learned to play the "float" game from the time delays to slow down the deadlines while they "clarified" the requirements coming from the American businesses.
I fear that stay-at-home American workers will be tempted to emulate the very things they detested when the work of their former colleagues were given to developing country worker that they were probably forced to train in order to keep their severance benefits.
Going back to the office is the best way to keep a business running optimally, and to keep the human factor nurtured, too.
-PJ
I don't disagree. We have a narrow window to 'unwind' the commercial real estate market rapidly, as fast as Schumer unwound the residential real estate market in 2008.
The knock-on effects of Schumer's "Indy Mac Letter" were financially devastating for hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans and led to the White Hut.
Now a GOP Senator must do the same thing to the commercial real estate market -- tomorrow -- to provoke the same reactionary electoral movement, assuring that someone to the right of current Trump will be swept into office in 2024 identically to the way Carter got his ass hoisted by Ronaldus Magnus.
In fact, that candidate would be beholden to a (Ronaldus) Magnus Carta "Compact With Americans" that swears complete and total revenge and the dismantling of the Deep State "by any means necessary", to coin a phrase, and to complete and total fealty to economic nationalism, regardless of China's chopstick-rattling.
Neither I nor any of my colleagues wants to go back to the office. Ever.
You better believe the opportunity to work remotely will be a huge factor in deciding what consulting gigs I accept from now on.
Companies are going to sell off a lot of their expensive office space in city centers. A lot of those office towers will be converted to apartments. Commercial real estate will take a huge hit.
Expensive cities like San Francisco and New York will take a huge hit. Why live there? For lots of jobs there is simply no reason to.
Even less expensive cities will see a lot of professionals move to the suburbs or even exurbs. The more daring will move to small towns or the countryside.
The tax base of a lot of big cities will collapse.
Long term this is potentially devastating to Democrats. Their voters are almost all city dwellers dependent on public transport and/or other government services. As people move out and rely less on government services, they’re probably going to be more independent and less willing to pay for them.
Exactly what I said in my "self-evaluation" that was just required to be submitted.
Lawsuits waiting to happen.
That’s a violation of the law for Emergency Use Therapies.
And I wonder if they know that OSHA considers any bad reaction to the JAB, to be a worker’s compensation issue that they will have to pay for, if they have required it?
Have they checked with their insurance company to see if they will be covered for ordering employees to take an experimental therapy?
Airheads and/or dictators are large and in charge everywhere these days.
Actually it will be pretty easy to prove the jab injury. If you look at all the adverse effects they all have certain things in common. Migraines, tinnitus, blood clots, etc. If you take 50 cases and run a search on all you will come up with a bunch of symptoms that match.
You can fight the jabs now before it get to this point but this ruling will make employers think twice about their illegal mandates. It is illegal to mandate experimental medical treatments anyway. Seeing you can’t really sue the jab makers this is a good start. Let the companies be financially liable.
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