1. The employees in many of these industries have tremendous leverage. One of my former clients just changed jobs within the last two weeks because the new employer is letting her work from home most of the time.
2. Most companies in this situation (i.e., they've been able to function adequately with employees working from home since the COVID fiasco began) have no reason to bring the staff back. Almost all of those that are insisting their employees return to the office are only doing this because they are paying a lot of money to lease the office space and simply don't want to waste it.
3. See the last sentence in Item #2. Every one of these companies is going to send most of these employees back to work from home when their current leases expire.
I would tend to agree with that. And bringing them back to work now is not so much that they don't want to waste their current leases - that's a sunken cost. I think they are doing this to weed out some employees before they go remote for good. So as for those who are threatening to quit if forced back to the office, well, sayonara!
See the last sentence in Item #2. Every one of these companies is going to send most of these employees back to work from home when their current leases expire.
I really haven’t worked for pay from home for over a decade. I still have an office at home with a desk and computers, two phones, 2 routers/modems and a printer w/a lap top computer to drive that printer. I do our genealogy and stuff for our church and family.
A couple of weeks ago, I got phone calls from my latest internet/phone provider. I don’t need anything else from them. However, discussions with their reps were interesting.
None of their corporate contact people/reps are working from their corporate offices. They are working from homes all over America like us, their customers. Their corporation is saving huge money even with some empty office spaces where they are still paying rent, re minimal upkeep, janitorial and security now versus a year of so ago.