Posted on 05/22/2021 5:29:23 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Great strategy.
Yeah, great strategy. In my observation, the quality of "work" you get overseas (doesn't matter which sea), is abysmal. Institutional knowledge drops to nothing, and when your company goes into the crapper, the blame is appropriately on management.
I've been working from home exclusively for over 7 years. Not going back.They moved our 'offices' where you can go in if you want to a few years back. I don't even know where the office is. Nor do I care.
The work from home gravy train is coming to an end as things get back to normal. People will have to go back to working in an office. That’s what I did for 40 years. People should be happy to do that and finally go back to interacting with coworkers. Your opportunities for promotion will be greater if you work in an office vs work from home.
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Yeah one can survive on $2000/ month adjunct pay in the Bay Area. Not.
Working 3 jobs now. One in LA (project) one in the Bay Area (adjunct) and one face-to-face (full-time/ 34 weeks a year) in London.
Would have to give up 2 jobs if I had to go to the office either in LA or the Bay Area
If bosses discover most of the work can be done via the internet, they’ll farm all their jobs overseas.
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Already happening in IT
Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others are relocating most of their staff to India anyways.
Frankly, the only major employers of which I’ve heard forcing employees to vaxx up are governmental or health care. Most private sector employers see the yuge lawsuit potential in mandating that employees-at-will have an elixir injected into their body that is new (messenger RNA platform) that are being distributed are under an Emergency Use Authorization – they are not approved vaccines (per Fauci’s wife).
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Most schools and universities are. For both staff, faculty and students
Yeah wearing a effing mask 9 hours a day in a cube farm will draw people back to the office, while all office amenities remains closed.
I’m the rack and stack guy - you folks are not working from home if I don’t head into work...
Been working the entire time - loved the light traffic as folks hunkered during this fiasco...
Employers care for employees as much as employyes care for employers.
Having spent all my professional life in manufacturing I don’t have the luxury of working from home. But then again I really love being on a factory floor where all the cool toys are. Most people think factories are dirty mindless jobs. Try designing and building a cigar tube that holds 300 people that can move them around the planet at 500 mph from home...
It’s corporate “Two Bobism” that scuttles remote offices and work from home. Management that’s not happy unless looking over the drones shoulder, micromanaging minutia.
We had an ambiguous work from home policy during the rona but we managed to make it work. It’s been business as usual since last fall but most of my clients are still working from home and they love it. Not sure how it will all play out in the end but I feel the lighter traffic might not last much longer and I will return to the 90 minute commute by September. (Now it’s 40 minutes)
Social constructors such as yourself always have a “tell” if you watch or listen enough.
Actually, the fine print of the announcements I’ve read say it’s the kiddies that they’re forcing to get vaxxed; they’re “strongly encouraging” staff to get vaxxed - it’s probably a union thing.
Actually, the fine print of the announcements I’ve read say it’s the kiddies that they’re forcing to get vaxxed; they’re “strongly encouraging” staff to get vaxxed - it’s probably a union thing.
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Pretty much all college faculty are not unionized in the US.
If forced to go into the office, my commute was 19h (Denver to the Bay Area) driving one way before. Now it’s a 16 hour flight.
About 40% of all private sector payroll comes from for firms with 500 or fewer employees, and there are millions of companies with less than 500 employees. With 80MM+ Trump voters, there is undoubtedly a non-hostile workplace environment somewhere for people who are normal. Frankly, I wouldn't want to work in a place run by Ted Nugent - I am there to do a job and unless I'm a political consultant, I'd rather focus on work and not extracurricular activities.
I do believe this is much of the drive behind this.
Working from home eliminates all the casual contacts in the office that could be construed as some form of micro-aggression. A company being “woke” is potentially destroying the ‘team.’ Working from home keeps one at a safe distance from that nonsense.
This is important to understand as having a remote workforce does take a very different style of management. I suspect many of these companies have leaders who went along to get along last year, but never were able to fully adapt to the idea they couldn’t walk down the hallway to check on a project. There are tons of online project management tools. Last year I used one to write my 10 Chapter book working with editors and publishers in California and New York.
Maybe it’s my industry (I’m a shepard), but the male letches tend to outnumber the Karen’s. And HR handles the Karen’s in their own inimitable way. I expect men to behave like men and not Motley Crüe at work.
Teleworking exposes who actually works and who doesn’t. Also which leadership is helpful and which is deadweight.
There is also great value in seeing the world. Sometimes reading the headlines on conservative media, you'd think we are a tiny minority on the verge of being rounded up by a phalanx of Bidet followers. Then you go to the office and see zillions of people getting coffee, having lunch, holding meetings, and realize that yes there is a collection of statists but most people simply want to love their job, make money, and not have their home torched or workplace looted.
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