Posted on 03/26/2020 6:09:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
I would really like to see this trend takeoff. Lower costs for workers. Lower costs for businesses. A chance to revive small towns. I see a lot of upside.
Less traffic accidents!
The next politician to get WFH expenses fully tax deductible will get a lot of support.
I have been working from home full time for 3 years now. Save a lot of money on gas.
My electric bill did go up about 20 to 50 a month depending on the time of year for computer power and heating/cooling. Overall I still save about $180 a month in fuel cost.
Not unless you have a remote shock collar to get some people to do their job. People are inherently lazy, staying at home is not the most productive atmosphere for most people, including me. I work from home a couple of days a week.
Do the same with colleges and universities.
Since this started I thought that there would be two important unintended consequences of WuFlu. One is that homeschooling might take off. The other is telecommuting.
When I worked in California we had an excellent systems tech support person. Her family had to move to Arizona for some reason, and they worked it out so she could work from Arizona doing tech support. I thought that no way in hell would that work. How would she run to our computers when we had issues? Turns out, it was great and everything was handled via internet and phone. She had a dedicated off room in the house, she stuck strictly to work hours, etc.
More time on the internet.
Much more hanging out in your underpants.
Drinking beer at lunch.
Heck,smoking pot.
Lol what a country!
I’m working from home. We have quite a few web-ex meetings. What this has exposed is that the current infrastructure only reasonably supports WFH up to a certain number of people doing it. The audio sux, no matter how you call in.
It’s like having a 1950’s highway system and suddenly flooding it with 2020 traffic volumes.
i.e. it’s not really working very well. Calls are also incredibly stressful.
Agreed. The quality of life skyrockets.
easy enough for the employer to have your camera on and watch what is on your screen.
I’ve been saying for 2 decades now that there is no reason to have expensive, centralized real estate in urban environments that do nothing but create long commutes, waste people’s time, inflate office space costs and make workers endure exorbitant parking fees of $200+ a month.
Between work from home capabilities; high speed internet, video conferencing, smart phones, PC’s as powerful as server blades etc. Technologically speaking it makes no difference.
I’ve conducted business and closed deals on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a smart phone. Imagine what I could do at home with my normal setup.
I know this is far more likely to impact secondary cities like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oklahoma CIty etc as opposed to NYC, DC or LA.
I tell you one thing, if nothing else this crisis has shown Silicon Valley refuses to, in business parlance, eat their own dog food. All the things they sell to the rest of the world in being connected and working anywhere they still mandate their people come to the office every day.
Construction workers?
Plumbers?
Auto Mechanics?
People who fix and build things?
Not all of us have that option
Did you ever watch the old Mission Impossible tv series where they superimpose a picture over the real picture?
With today technology i am sure it is possible to superimpose a previously taped video over the live stream.
Talk about a dream job!
I work for a Fortune 500 with about 16,000 employees. I’ve worked remotely the last 13 year. Pre-COVID only about 5% of us did. In the last 2 weeks a solid 80% of the company has packed up their computers and are now working from home. It’s been a game changer.
See my post 18. Our external access portal has been swamped too. System response is definitely slower, but getting better.
I do tend to agree with this, assume organizations realize they can indeed function without a lot of folks in the office, I suspect the bean counters won’t take long to realize, the savings of square footage office space rentals, and end up with more than a few businesses allowing folks to keep working from home once things calm back down...
Not all, but I suspect companies that never gave it a serious thought will after this.
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