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 employees have moved since working remotely. Especially younger folks. It’s a bigger problem than most people know.
Although I’ve worked remotely for years, my employer did a huge office remodel. Many employees haven’t even been there to see the new cube farm.
A few have said they won’t ever go back. They are senior enough that they really don’t need a desk anyway.
Heck, one of them even moved a few states away.
I agree with all your points
Thank you so much for your input.
I’m of the kind that now there are three types of being with other humans
1- in person.
2- Video.
3- Phone.
(.4). Thinking about / praying for someone
(5). Email /. text.
Number one is 100 times more important than 2 and 3.
Many times. 3. Is better than 2. Just a phone conversation
My eyes literally rolled 4 or 5 times. It’s totally FUBAR.
Bought and paid for, mostly with our $$.
“to provoke the same reactionary electoral movement,”
Won’t matter at all if elections can still be stolen in 2022 and 2024.
Desperation to bring back the Trump Economy.
Desperation to bring back the Trump Economy. 💲
Working from home for the past year has been pretty good for my team of 17: we process widgets basically, and the accuracy and timeliness has been the same or better than before—no draining and exhausting 3 hour daily commutes.
But my team has known each other for years—decades in some cases—and we know the work well, and we know how to be professional after years working in offices. So I hope to go back the the office in the fall (when schools finally reopen in CA) once a week, once a month—something like that.
I have two young adult children, however, who have new white collar jobs now but due to covid HAVE NEVER WORKED IN AN OFFICE. They work in their messy bedrooms half naked in bed (as they did in “bed school” aka “remote learning” in college); it’s appalling and they don’t know how to act professionally unfortunately—but they’ve literally never been in an office. Never. They live virtual, remote lives. They need mentors and in-person interactions. And they can’t meet people either!
So I hope their workplaces go back sooner rather than later, and at least once a week.
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.
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Especially at my school.
Computer labs are full of shiny older 2016 era iMacs. Game development students hate iMacs with a passion as they are extremely low-spec compared to a typical gamer laptop, in addition to being Macs (game students are gamers and they can’t stand the iMac) so they bring their own laptop. Same with the games faculty including myself. Computer on the instructor desk - iMac. Can’t run required software very well like 3DSMAX. Bring in own laptop.
No, they are making in-school learning like signing up for a recording studio. By sign-up.
And amazing, at least with the game students, they will all rather learn remotely.
Think most adjunct games faculty moved out of the Bay Area (I was in Denver and now near London) The amount we receive for one class doesn’t even pay half the rent anywhere 2 hours from San Francisco. And maximum classes is two…
Having to show up daily to some brick and mortar building means a BIG pay cut for employees.
Not to mention an hour or two daily wasted NO PAY time commuting. Then ya need gas, a wardrobe, car, repairs, insurance, now you have to eat while at work and pay for meals out, and on and on and on. The women need to pay for day care and their expenses don’t end there.
When ya add it all up, those who are commuting simply to work on a computer all day, are getting SCREWED.
Agreed but those markets will give way last, because they are artificially-inflated at the top, which gives agents every chance to pluck over non-shrewd buyers, "Oh, the top house in this neighborhood just sold for 2.2M, so at 1.8M (for a $500,000 split-level), this house is a steal."
OTOH, an Indy Mac Letter to expose the bad paper in the commercial real estate market would likely bleed out into residential real estate and decapitate the top end of that market overnight. Then it might be possible to unwind both sectors and hand Xiden a new global depression. Schadenfreude!
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