Posted on 07/27/2020 10:42:38 AM PDT by Vendome
Google will keep its employees working from home for at least another full year.
Staff at the search giant — who were first sent home in March due to the coronavirus pandemic — are not expected to return in a large capacity until at least July 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was reportedly “swayed in part by sympathy for employees with families to plan for uncertain school years that may involve at-home instruction, depending on geography.”
Silicon Valley’s tech titans have signaled that working from home may be the new norm moving forward. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey previously said that he foresees some employees choosing to forego daily trips to the office forever, while Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said half of the social-networking giant’s employees could be working remotely within the next five to 10 years.
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Buh bye retailers built around these campuses
Buh bye gas tax revenues
Buh bye bridge tolls
Buh bye BART ridership
Buh Bye jobs
Just Buh bye...
All businesses are discovering the amount of money they will be saving by having employees work from home. Also, because of the riots in the big cities how many employees will be thinking about leaving their jobs.
Good thing they don’t do anything important like grow vegetables or make steel.
I’ve been saying this for awhile now. I also think people will start fleeing most cities.
I would think commercial real estate has to be the biggest expense for most business’s. Now they have discovered they don’t need it.
The impact will be immense!
I’m 66 and expected to have the house fully paid off at the end of the year. I had a 3 hour daily commute that cost me about $620 a month, not including tires, oil changes, maintenance, etc. I went through a $650 set of tires every 11 months.
I’ve been working from home since the beginning of april and it looks to be going on indefinitely. I’ve gained 3 hours a day and about $700 a month in after tax expenses. I can do my job in my sleep and never get out of my jammies.
This means I can also work from anywhere in the country. My wife and I love road trips and we may be doing a long drive from Kentucky to Seattle to see family, and hitting the fun spots in between. And I’ll still work every day from a hotel room, hotel lobby, or Starbucks, etc.
I may not be retiring for sometime, and even if this gravytrain DOES come to an end and they lay me off (I’m a contractor), I still get unemployment for six months while collecting full Social Security benefits.
Add to this the fact that, even WITH my house payment, the low cost of living here would enable us to live VERY comfortably on SS alone. So this cloud has a silver lining until the soon coming collapse of everything affects everyone, even us. But that’s probably a year or two off, especially in rural areas.
A friend of mine is a commercial real estate investor. He sees what you see. He’ll be fine, but he sees a major shift in the whole thing.
“Let” or “FORCE”?
People tend to live near “the big city” because that’s where the jobs are.
A lot of people can work from home now, and so the jobs are located “anywhere”.
Another reason to live near “the big city” is because population centers have fun restaurants, sporting events, museums, big concerts, and lots of shopping choices.
If those things dry up then what’s the point? If you live in a small town in West Virginia, you may feel like there’s “nothing to do”. But maybe there isn’t all that much to do outside Philadelphia these days either.
I expect small town living to boom — in part because it’s safe, and it’s cheap, and because other locations no longer offer so much in the way of benefits.
you can just as easily censor and ban comservatives from home...
Envy
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Just thought of something:
This hits immigrant and minorities hardest.
My husband is still working from home. They’ve made it all mesh and most of his department are also at home. The company saves on utility bills, but more than that, when working at home, a lot of people find themselves more productive, and they work longer hours than if they were in the office.
Also, the work at home group, are being able to work for
the hours they’d normally be commuting (and there’s another plus, the employee saves on gas for his car, or money for the metro.) Add into that you can work in your shorts and just put on a shirt and tie for zoom meetings, saves on laundry. And if you’re in a job where it’s mandatory suit and tie every day, lots of dry cleaner money is saved (but that is bad for the dry cleaning business.
They can try anything when times are good.
As soon as there is a problem.....back into the office or cubicle for additional managing.
We were scheduled to go back to the office at the end of July. No update but rumors a couple of managers are end of the year or Nov 4....
There is a small business in my small town that provides work space for the self employed and small business. There are rooms for meetings, cubicles, PCs etc. I could see this type of business really taking off.
If a company that has most of it’s staff working at home needs to they can meet in such a space. Or they could have monthly, regional meetings in hotels.
and wimmin
dont forget the wimmin
#5 I still get unemployment for six months while collecting full Social Security benefits.
“Buh bye bridge tolls”
Tisk. Tisk.
Barack will be on TV within 3 weeks supporting Joementia and explaining in between “Uh, I and, and, and” how women and chillin are hawdest hit in his fake accent
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