Posted on 03/08/2024 7:10:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Remote work has been a stunning success at my company of 120,00 employees. We ramped up our network and server bandwidth and remained fully functional for our customers. Some employees had to be physically onsite because the work was behind a spin dial door. Air-gapped. Those engagements were reduced staff. Just enough to keep the lights on without risk of spreading infection. The work-from-home contingent remained healthy and productive. No spreading of infection in closed office spaces. The unneeded real estate has been vacated and no longer incurs an expense for floor space, utilities and cleaning. The expense saving is passed onto the customer in the form of lower labor rates.
Ditto here also. My group is fully remote. We don’t miss a beat.
Sounds like the premise is all based on speculation.
It’s interesting to hear people talk about how they’re able to work remotely so well.
Some of it depends on how your job is structured and how much you need to physically interact with other people.
Sounds like a lot of people here have jobs where they are sitting at a desk and they log into the internet from anywhere in the world to connect to their Networks.
Hey. If it works, go for it.
Clear?
Have been performing my Engineering functions from home for four years.
My company doesn't have to pay for office space, I don't have to commute two hours each day.
For someone they've trusted to work un-supervised on the other side of the world, why not from 40 miles away?
I get more done now, and my whole group of five personnel gets more done than we used to.
Obviously this is not for everyone, some people cannot function without minute direction - the company identifies them and either brings them back in or fires them.
My boss is in Texas.
The consulting firm I work for is based out of Ohio.
The Bank we’re doing a project for is based out of Chicago but the executives we are working with are based out of NY and Boston.
Even if there were an office here to go to - which there isn’t - how would it increase productivity for me to commute into an office to sit in front of a computer screen instead of doing so from home? Would it be as quiet for the frequent conference calls? Would the fridge and bathroom be as close?
Going to an office would be a huge waste of my time, would make me LESS productive and would enable me to do precisely nothing that I can do working from home. I would also hate it and would look to leave this job as soon as I could line something else up.
I forgot to add, I live in Charlotte.
Accounting works well remotely.
I was going to write a long bit about ROI but most of that’s already written. So this:
The Plandemic 2.0 won’t take hold without a bunch of harried, tired, worn-down people living single-serving lives to destroy their immune systems and cramming themselves into airplanes, elevators, cubicles, and meeting rooms.
Plus there’s zero chance of forcing a new shot or mask or other behavior conformance if there’s no chain of must-do-X to be in-office or else no pay.
Some jobs require traveling most days. It wears out your vehicles but it is so much more pleasant than being cooped up in an office. It tends to lead to more work hours and working later in the day or it did for stupid me.
The best way to lose the most productive workers. Go for it.
Work from home is nice and all. But it still works better when people are together. They can bounce ideas off each other, and help each other much more quickly. Teams or other software is nice but starting a chat in software will never be as quick or effective as “hey Mac c’mere a sec”. The company I work is soft-shoeing the back to office. But those of us who are back get more done, come up with feature ideas, and are just generally more productive. Because we can talk, we can overhear, we can connect.
Totally agree. And if it WASN’T a failure, CEO’s would continue on this track and not call people back.
synergistic collaboration is a workable model; dispersing people into decentralized, unattached work models is a failing model.
I work partially remote: my desk is a 15min walk form the other half of the team. I probably spend a cumulative hour or more a day staring at my wall wondering my no one in the other office is responding to my message/email. If we were working next to each other, I wouldn’t have to wait..
Fortunately, in those instances, I have other work-related things I can do, and walking 900 miles to the other person’s cube is not an option.
I know I'm in the minority. Almost all my co-workers, most of whom are younger, prefer to work remotely and live a life of Zoom calls (which I loathe) in which co-workers are in their pajamas with barking dogs and crying babies in the background.
It won't be for long. My company will likely not renew leases on our office space as remote work seems here to stay. Also, I'll be retired within the next few years so it doesn't really matter to me anymore where this all goes.
I think exactly the opposite.
I believe you destroy your immune system by sitting at home and indoors. You actually improve your immune system when you are out and about and exposing yourself to germs.
As George Carlin used to say, "Your immune system needs germs to practice on."
Right, to a certain extent. Bubble people are caught behind the curve, like the Aztecs meeting European visitors.
Overload will get you too, as will wearing oneself down with stress and overwork (aforementioned airplanes, taxis, cubicle life, bad food, etc.).
Most jobs in the finance sector can be done remotely.
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