Posted on 12/05/2022 9:11:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
‘Normal isn’t coming back. But Jesus is.’
The Office isn’t dead but it is dying. You simply do not need to go into the office for many white collar jobs. Companies are trying to lean on employees to at least accept a hybrid 2 days per week in the office arrangement. They know 5 days a week like before is out of the question. Experienced employees and those who have in-demand skills can and are refusing to accept anything less than 100% remote. Companies have had no choice but to accept.
Big, expensive (and invariably Leftist) cities are in big trouble. Why waste hours of your day not to mention the expense of commuting into a dirty, dangerous city when you don’t have to? Once you realize that is not necessary, the next step is why even live there at all? Many have already connected the dots and left. More will keep leaving. Their standards of living will rise significantly. Those cities will see their wealthy and power crash as this goes on.
Over time some of the more Left leaning voters who move out of the big cities may....just MAY...learn to do more for themselves and be more independent and less reliant on nanny government for everything.
Oh but think of how good it is for the environment to not have all those people burning that dirty oil to commute into the office every day. You DO want to help Earth Mother Gaia don’t you?????
Save da Erf!
LOL!
I work for the big banks. Even they are having to accept hybrid schedules for their employees and for experienced ones....100% remote.
I had one (HSBC) I was playing footsie with about 6 months ago. The project I was going to work on got cancelled and I moved on and got a project with another bank. Then HSBC had another project that was similar they wanted done and started contacting me again (more experienced folks in the areas I do are not plentiful). I mentioned I took a contract with another bank 100% remote. They were stunned....”and they accept that???” (me living several states away from where the other bank is located). I said “Sure! They have no problem with it. Nor does (another big bank I was negotiating with).”
Most of them have figured out by now they’re just going to have to accept remote work if they want people with some of the experience and skills they are looking for. Otherwise they simply won’t be able to compete in the market for those people.
I live here in Charlotte. The Banks are hybrid 2 days a week for most low level employees. They are 100% remote for more senior employees/contractors and those who have skills they really need which are in short supply.
Whether they like it or not, that’s the reality in the marketplace now.
They wanted to destroy the economy in an effort to drive Trump out of office. Now the bill has come due and blue cities are abandoned, dystopian ruins.
Diffusing power is a good thing. I am glad big, democrat run cities will suffer.
Sucks to be a Blue City Mayor and Council Member these days. Hope they enjoy the SUCK that THEY caused.
Definitely agree here. Good reading. Minneapolis used to be a shining-civilized city. The decline started when Somailains started moving there.... Must be 150,000 of them by now. Few are gainfully employed and if they are it is by government or a government funded NGO.
Wracked by Floyd riots for days. Even 4 years ago, my image of Minneapolis was favorable and safe.
I see that as well, for particular skill sets in high demand. Those workers can apparently decide for themselves if they want to work remotely or not.
The problem for cities is that they preyed on those workers and their employers for tax revenues (NYC has a CITY income tax); while NJ workers of NYC companies working remotely are for the time being considered NYC employees for tax purposes, I’m sure some have officially switched to small NJ offices of their companies (still working remotely) to escape that tax trap.
Doesn’t bother them at all.
This analysis seems plausible....time will tell.
The remote workers are far more skilled and experienced than the local workers. The biggest reason the local employees have fewer skills is that most of them are hired above their pay grade because the companies couldn't hire talent at those salaries and instead had to hire inexperienced staff.
Yep. I think its foolish for companies to fight this trend. They get access to a vastly bigger talent pool - the whole country instead of just their local area. They also get to drastically reduce office expenses over time. The employees are much happier this way.
This is a good trend for the country too. Not only will this harm Blue cities especially, this will also spread wealth around a lot more. Lower cost areas will be particularly attractive to a lot of White Collar workers looking to maximize their standard of living. They will bring money into communities and spread it around as they live in various places and buy goods and services there.
One long-term problem for remote workers is that their work can also be done from India, China, etc.
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Any work that could have been outsourced overseas was already done starting decades ago.
The pandemic allowed the reality to surface.......... cities are obsolete. Proof is to be seen in what was Deeetroit and Baltimore.
That reality is dawning in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland heavily dawning in Portland and San Francisco where what once was in now missing. The empty shuttered buildings are evidence of what was
A gift from obama that keeps on giving.
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