Posted on 08/28/2020 6:57:05 PM PDT by Vendome
Employees, which include over 9,000 in San Francisco, were previously allowed to work remotely until the end of 2020. Salesforce joins other tech giants like Facebook, Google and Uber, which all extended working from home until the end of June as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
The company occupies three towers in San Francisco’s Transbay district, including the city’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower. Downtown merchants worry that the prolonged absence of office workers will cripple the local economy, and many stores and restaurants in the area remain shut.
Salesforce will offer an additional $250 for office supplies to each worker, following a $250 allocation earlier this year. Parents will receive an additional six weeks of paid time off, and parents and guardians can work from home indefinitely in locations where schools are closed and students are learning remotely, the company said.
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This keeping employees out of downtown by so many companies is killing restaurants, Dry Cleaners, Janitorials, Parking, Electricians, Structured Cable, HVAC, Drywall, Furniture and so much more.
Good job guys.
If you can stay out of a building for 18 months then why the hell would you ever come back?
Too Bad. A real Shame. A Damn Dirty Shame
The SalesForce Tower is beautiful and wonderful addition to the city but, now it is a relic
Good Job Mayor London Breed and Givenor Gruesome.
You have completely deKcuF up downtown vibrancy and that tax base has been vaporized.
Devil Worshipin, Satanic Inspired, Kommunists!
I think it sucks, but the only way that we can really defeat liberalism for a couple of generations at a time is to have the people live the Venezuelan lifestyle until they repent of what they did.
Bandwidth has consequences.
Should be pointed out that as early as the 1960s business centers were considered horrible centralized targets in war or for terrorism by more forward-thinking people. The suggestion then was to decentralize - well, now the technology to do that for clerical jobs has arrived (in fact, it’s been around for almost a decade and a half now) and there’s no good reason to keep concentrating non-secure jobs in large, easy to hit targets any more.
I warned everyone at the time that if it extended beyond a two-week vacation, we’d end up in a permanently disrupted state and would never return to “normal” for two reasons:
1. Many employees who could work at home would refuse to come back to their workplaces.
2. Employers who could have their staff work remotely would first keep them home to protect against lawsuits, then would keep them home permanently to eliminate the cost of having a workplace of any kind.
As does all other technological development. If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has forcibly bypassed all those horrible stick-in-the-mud Boomer managers that kept shooting down work-from-home because they wanted to totally control their employees in an office rather than get things done. Welp, now they couldn’t stop it (their choice was WFH or bankruptcy) and it turns out that many companies are experiencing higher productivity and better worker morale.
Corporate hive buildings are going to become an endangered species, like horse stables in residential neighborhoods.
with technology there is no reason to do so IF the job can be done remotely....other than control.
When this whole fiasco started months ago I could not believe how many conversations I had with people — here on FR and in my business dealings — who were dumb enough to believe that a pandemic-related lockdown could be imposed, and then easily lifted later.
As many of you know—We work in the outdoor entertainment industry., ie fairs and festivals. This has put a severe crimp in our earning capacity. Hundreds of thousands are in my same situation in our industry across the country. We are trying everything from virtual fairs to website....NOT THE SAME...We are doing the WA State Fair (Puyallup) starting next Friday. If anyone wants further information to meet us during our live portion of the event—PM me and I will pass along the links.
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and predict that this will not work well long-term. It works now because people know their coworkers, and all that in-office time has made them familiar. But as time passes, projects and workflow change. I worked at home for a period of months and I slowly lost touch with team members. New employees can’t develop the ‘team’ feel, and those who do go into the office become the organization’s insiders and get ahead.
I did know a few government employees who worked for years from home, they had sweet gigs that meant that usually the only time they came in was for the Christmas parties.
Agree, the days of spending an hour or two, or three, ‘commuting’ to work are about over, at least for office-type jobs, at least as we knew it.
My thinking is that companies will figure out that it’s still important that teams get together on a regular basis (after the virus), so they’ll divide up their workforce into 4 groups, and have each group show up for one week per month, using shared office space (you wouldn’t have a personal desk with a picture of your kids on it). So, yes, there will still be offices, but only 25% of what we had pre-virus. Everything will be a lot different!
It’s not just boomers. The youngsters with their agile open-plan environments are just as bad.
Betting within the next month or so, Salesforce will announce the opening of a center in India and move most of its on-the-ground operations there. While we are worrying about Communist China, major corporations are moving more and more operations to India, leaving only the Shiite jobs here.
“the coronavirus pandemic rages on” - where in SF?
Real numbers are down everywhere - despite Gavin Newsom trying to keep the panic going.
I work in IT consulting. When it’s the best solution for my clients, I propose work from home and have been doing so for most of a decade.
Every. single. time. the proposal has been shot down, it’s some Boomer midlevel or higher manager who doesn’t get technology coming up with a BS reason or worse, no reason at all, to prevent even a trial WFH pilot project. Gen X and later *can* be convinced to at least have a trial, but it’s the Boomers who simply refuse.
This is one of several factors that tell me the first push for employees to return to work is likely to come from the EMPLOYEES, not the employers.
Call centers in India have been declining, which is why they’re desperately pressing for enhanced H1B immigration to the US. Call centers have been moving to the Philippines and to US WFH, because everyone in North America is tired of getting an Indian on the phone reading a script.
What *has* been expanding in India is chat and email support.
Except we already have examples of Indian call centers/remote work not working out at all well. Microsoft has been finding out that Indian coding is a mess and Indian support centers have been a disaster for them, to use one example. Apple refuses to use Indian centers for support or work on North American customers or projects.
People have to quit volunteering to test.
This is why I was against testing.
They would use those numbers to continue their crime and here were are...
As bad as things are for you, I do believe that your industry will get back to something very close to normal in the not-too-distant future. People will want to go back and do their entertainment things once they’re comfortable that the COVID-19 danger is mostly diminished.
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