It depends on the person’s ability to get stuff done.
The only way to convince the boss to allow work from home is to provide metrics that you’re MORE PRODUCTIVE from home.
The alphas want us all in the same cage so they can dominate. I get it.
I do notice this big push from a lot of banks to try to get employees and contractors to come back to the office at least on a hybrid basis. I refuse. I am able to work from home and thanks to my experience level am desirable enough to employers to keep getting contracts to work from home. As long as I have any choice in the matter, I’m not going back to the office. If I’m forced to do so and I can get another gig that let’s me work from home, I’ll quit the one that makes me come into the office ASAP.
There is no advantage to coming into the office. They just want to be able to look over your shoulder all day even when you don’t have something to do. Its a huge waste of time and money to me.
I been working from Home since 3/13/2020.
I don't think your employer should be concerned about your ability to perform personal tasks during work hours. I realize that's an unenlightened view.
It was only the antiwork freaks on Reddit who thought that train would run forever. They still do. A rude awakening is coming.
On its face, a "hybrid" work arrangement is highly inefficient and costly. Within five years, I'd predict that almost every person who was working in a corporate office before COVID-19 is going to fall into one of two categories:
1. Working back in the office 100% of the time.
2. Working at home 100% of the time.
Keep in mind that this doesn't mean Group 2 will NEVER appear in an office. They may show up for an occasional meeting. But these are people who will not have a dedicated workstation in a corporate office. This idea that a company is going to pay a commercial lease for office space that is only used 1-3 days in a typical 5-day work week is ludicrous and was never going to be permanent.
For each company, what's going to trigger the change is one thing: When the office lease is up for renewal, the company's leadership will make a decision about planning their space for 100% "onsite" or nearly 100% "off-site" staffing.
All this work from home business, depends on how the job is structured, what tasks you perform, and who else you interact with.
If your job is mostly talking on the phone, having meetings which can be done through zoom, and pulling up files online to work with, then you can work effectively off site.
Many jobs simply aren’t structured to enable someone to work from home. Or work from home all the time.
As a youngster, I often heard:
“If working was fun, they wouldn’t have to pay you to do it.”
If you can do your job from home, so can chinese prison labor.
Must be nice. We were in the office every day. We had to get up every morning, put on real shoes and pants and drive to an office where policy said we had to wear stupid, pointless masks.
Corporate people got to work from home, but those of us on the operational level had to be on site, hands on. No such thing as remote work for those of us who actually keep things going in the world.
It sounds like most people on this thread, have jobs where they work online. If you have a job where you sit at a computer screen, I can see such people can work from home and not need an office.
It depends on 3 main things:
1) The type of work
2) Whether an office atmosphere makes the work more productive
3) The individual doing the work.
I picked the perfect time to retire (2019)...
Ian Bogost writes like a poofter.
If people on the line have to come into work every day, everyone should have to come in every day
My group at work now includes a couple engineers from India. Not only from India but still live in India. Who needs an H1B program to employ foreign tech people here in the US? Now they can get engineers and programmers and don’t even have to pay them US wages. If you like to work from home you may end up having to compete globally for your job.
Elon Musk has it absolutely correct, Go Back to the Office or Quit. While some people can work effectively from home, most do not. Productivity and the whole positive impact of working together at an office is lost. Pay at-home workers half their salary if they insist on working from home as that is the likely value of their contribution.