[CapnJack]

I’m in IT and the work from home is the way to go. We have a better pool of new candidates to hire when needed.
No one to bother you popping in your cube to ask stupid questions like “did you see the game last night?”.
I know all of my coworkers get a lot more done ... mainly because the WFH means your available 24/7 ... which is the only thing that is a downside. We all work like 6am to 8+pm all week.
I definitely do not miss the 1 3/4 to 2 hour commute each way every day.
Plus “I’m saving the planet!” By not putting 700 miles a week on my car!
Managers who want everybody back in the office are from the old school “if they ain’t under my thumb they ain’t working” Neanderthal days.
Now this is just for office workers you see. Not manufacturing or in person service.
The WFH thing gave my company a chance to major downsize the building we were in, to just a small office complex where we just occupy a few offices.

[ShadowAce]

I’m in IT and the work from home is the way to go.

Yup. Same here. I'm the "new guy" on the team, and I've been here for over 13 years. Everyone knows how to do the job, and they know what is expected.

They just do it.

mainly because the WFH means your available 24/7 ... which is the only thing that is a downside. We all work like 6am to 8+pm all week.

We are all encouraged to unplug at the end of the day--though some circumstances obviously come up to prevent it. I put in my 8-9 hours, and I'm done.

[StAnDeliver]

"Managers who want everybody back in the office are from the old school “if they ain’t under my thumb they ain’t working” Neanderthal days."

Look at the FReeptards upthread with their sloped foreheads lofl.

"OG SAY IN-OFFICE BEST! ME NO UNDERSTAND REMOTE EMPLOYEE MEASUREMENT MODELS. OG CONFUSED BY YOUR SMART WORLD."

My people don't produce, bye bye, there are two more of you waiting to be hired; agile or not, the tell is in the velocity vector v burn rate, and you can measure that velocity right down to an individual snapshot. Daily.

[Pox]

I’m in IT as well.

I’ve seen several of my former coworkers laid off in the last few years due to them not being properly responsive to requests from work for whatever reason.

Those who were bright enough to at least respond when queried are still here, but have to now occasionally come into the downsized office we moved to since we don’t need the same amount of space due to the bulk of our people now working from home.

I’ve seen the results of what has happened and as I stated before, some jobs will do fine with WFH, but most are not enhancing the company’s productivity working from home, but in fact have made matters “worse” for the company as a whole from an overall analysis.

This has only been a thing for a few years, so it’s difficult to tell how it will work out in the long run. For some jobs, it probably makes good sense. For others, it may be a big mistake that doesn’t show itself for a while.

We’ll see.

[frogjerk]

Managers who want everybody back in the office are from the old school “if they ain’t under my thumb they ain’t working” Neanderthal days.

The "Lumberghs" of the world are pissed.