I agree.
This administration has done all they can to undercut business and industry, and this is just one more thing.
I am not a believer in the work from home mindset, but if the employee and employer agree on something, it is all good.
If employees want it and employers don’t, I believe the final say should be with the employers.
If people want to vote with their feet, they can and will.
The end result is, the jewel of our economy, our productivity, is going to be the equivalent of Europe in the end.
With all that goes along with that, and none of it good in the long run.
A lot of people disagree with me on this, and I get it. But this is my opinion.
I expect that people will get what they ask for, good and hard.
Yep. All 81 million of them (or 78 million or 79 million or whatever it actually was).
A lot of people bring up the free market forces, but mention it mostly in terms of the tension between employer and employee, and the forces of supply and demand. But in competative markets, those businesses that have the most efficient and productive human capital should have an advantage. In that regard, the real discerning factor is which type of industry you work in. If you can reduce overhead by not having to maintain as much capital, but you can keep productivity and output, then you should have increased margins (actually not a margin, which is cost of sale versus revenue, but anyway) then you can afford to make your product more competitive, or to compensate your best people more, or maybe even both. If you work in a restaurant, or the service/hospitality sector, you don’t have much room to do that. Also, not very much with the trades or with manufacturing. If you deal in the knowledge sector or financial sector or brokering, probably so, but then you need good metrics on productivity, which those sectors tend to have anyway, and people don’t usually fake-it-til-they-make-it in those fields.
Businesses in competitive markets that are driven to succeed will weigh these options, or so I should think. If you can afford to be woke, maybe you don’t have much competition, and you should be focused on optimizing your position instead.
Our productivity is already in the toilet. Your post is spot on.
Well-said.