BTW: YES, My employer DID poll us on return to office in September and YES, the majority of us are saying NO because of the unchecked violence in Chicago and CPD being prevented from doing their jobs by the liberal lesbian licker, Lori Lightfoot!
How many floors of downtown office space does that employer occupy? You might suggest that your employer sub-let the space to allow illegal aliens to offset the cost, which could reduce the pressure to put employees in that space.
We’ve had a our office open for a long time now on a “voluntary” basis. We are using this period to determine who really values their employment with us. It has been eye opening to say the least. For the first time in my management career I am actually looking forward to cutting some people soon.
Of those polled how many:
Voted for Lightfoot?
Didn’t vote for Lightfoot but for darned sure have never voted for any Republican?
Hate Donald J Trump?
Hate Republicans just because they’re Republicans, except Kinzinger of course?
Voted for CornPop?
Are Democrats to the core and their voting patterns have caused what they’re all afraid of?
Some trucking companies (& I think the numbers will grow) are saying they will not send their trucks to cities with “defund the police” policies as they are concerned for the safety of their drivers. This could get “interesting” .... hell hole cities are going to start looking even more like something out of a dystopian movie.
PS - it doesn’t help if your mayor looks like something out of a Walking Dead movie & has a brain to match.
Take away the liberal lunatic ruling class and there is no reason why big American cities couldn't be decent like the aforementioned Asian counterparts.
If you can do the job from home, it’s the GREEN thing to do.
Save gasoline, reduces pollution.
Saves commute time and commute stress for employees.
Provides healthier/cheaper eating options at home.
And Yes, in a place like Chicago, reduces crime, by reducing the number of victims available.
Why isn’t Congress passing CoupFlu liability protection for all Americans biz?
Why isn’t American biz screaming for it?
Doesn’t American biz deserve the same protection Big Pharma and certain public employees get...?
My company was work from home since April of 2020. In my case it saved me a 3 hour commute and $750 a month in commuter costs. Therefore it was a bit difficult for me to retire a month ago (but it was well worth it). However, I went to someone else’s retirement party a week ago and the consensus of those I talked to was this: If they require us to go back into the office I’m looking for another job.
Sadly, as much as I loved “working from home”, meetings were pretty worthless.
I don’t know where we go from here. Probably total economic collapse, especially when you factor in the collapse of our government right now. I’m a little concerned the world is at a Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination’s moment.
Some people are figuring out that salaries are equal or better compared to the cost of living in much safer places than Chicago.
Live better and safer away from Crime Capitals.
100% agree. Not worried about getting or transmitting covid in the office, it’s the violence on the commuter train. Of course, can’t say that to management - we’ve been told that “safety” is a white privilege we should not expect - have to put concerns in terms of covid-fear so that’s what we tell management.
Probably wrong. I would expect that if polled the large majority would say they don't want to go back to the office because they enjoy working in shorts and a tee shirt, or they don't miss the time the commute takes, or they like not spending the ungodly amount of money for gas to pay for driving in, or other such perfectly valid reasons.
There are so many personal benefits to working from home it’s not even funny. Many people will be so spoiled with this it’ll be hard for them to go back even part-time, but especially full-time.
- wake up later, go to bed later
- save on gas
- save on transportation time/no risk of car accidents
- not having to deal with the nightmare that is public transport
- work in your pajamas and not even having to be showered
- not having to put on your ‘game face’ with coworkers in person all day, every day.
- getting more errands done during the day on lunch break
- getting in exercise when you normally couldn’t
- and most importantly, in the case of Chicago or any other Democrat paradise, not getting jumped downtown by an ‘oppressed’ person of color (or a criminal/bum of any color), although heaven help you if you tell your employer that
Perhaps management wanted the poll to prove that no one, including themselves but couldn’t say so out loud, that no one wants to come back to the office. Even management can see the violence, and therefore are reluctant to risk their lives as well.