If it works for your company, GREAT!
But we are talking macroeconomics here. It's clear that remote work is a failure.
This in fact seems to be happening.
Very few jobs can be adequately performed remotely.
IT may be one of them. Don’t know what else.
And these “hybrid” work arrangements are not going to be long for this world … because they are even less practical than a 100% in-office business model.
I read an article about this the other day. There were two main reasons. One is its a stealthy way of firing people. The second is that many managers are simply control freaks and are greatly bothered that they don’t have the ability to stand over other people’s shoulders anymore even though productivity was just as high.
Some companies will be able to get away with this in the current crappy economy. But several of their best employees will stay only until they can find another company willing to let them work remotely.
This guy is completely clueless if he thinks ceo’s know anything about the employees.
I'm working toward my 33rd year with my current employer. I'll turn 68 in August. My wife retired in Dec 2023. There is already a little friction with her acclimating to being retired and my longish workdays at home. If pressed to return to a physical office just for "the hell of it", I would probably process my retirement papers and wrap it up. I do have a CAC card for doing customer site visits if required and that is part of the arrangement with my customer. I haven't made a site visit yet, but it would be perfectly Ok if necessary.
Sounds like a good way to weed out people who aren’t serious about their job.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.