There will be more layoffs. Tech companies are already doing it. Elon Musk was first at Twitter. Then Facebook and Google followed his lead.
Posted on 04/05/2023 4:38:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Remy Reya, deputy chief of staff at Compass Pro Bono, splits his work week between his studio apartment, or a local coffee shop, and the Washington, D.C., office where he typically works three days a week.
While his company mandates the in-person days, it works for him.
“Because I am hybrid, though, I have to work a little harder to connect with colleagues,” Reya told Yahoo Finance. “Carving out space to develop camaraderie with my teammates that helps us work better together is almost always easier to do in person.”
Many workers, like Reya, are part of the shift in the post-pandemic world of work where hybrid and remote arrangements have swapped places in terms of prevalence.
In February, 41% of workers with jobs that can be done remotely have a hybrid schedule, up from 35% in January 2022, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted of 5,188 U.S. adults working part or full time. At the same time, 35% remain fully remote, down from 43% a little over a year ago.
The reversal reflects how more employers are requiring more office time to foster in-person collaboration, even though many workers would prefer to spend fewer days away from home.
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Paper paychecks issued in person might be an incentive?
But many people nowadays are paid via electronic payment to their bank account. It would be a step backwards with technology to ask people to come into the office and pick up an actual check that they have to take to their Bank
Work from home will go back to the niche it was pre-pandemic in another 12 to 18 months.
It was a topic of discussion at our c of c meeting and unanimously distrusted. Employees that wish to continue to work from home are not considered for promotions, are not considered “loyal”, are not considered “serious” and are thought to be generally scamming their employer.
If the employer has reasonable rules/checks in place to make certain that the employee is actual...oh...working, like you can’t turn off your camera, you can’t have more than 15 minutes of inactivity at your computer without explanation, you have to use their computer which, of course, monitors you for multitasking social media, web surfing, gaming etc., you are a tyrannical employer.
Any gains of not paying for a physical space are being lost in employee productivity, morale, and loyalty.
The entire group of people I work with work from home. It works well for some professions and not for others.
I love the way Elon tackled this issue when he bought Twitter.
I’m ok with Hybrids, it’s the EV mandates that really piss me off.
There will be more layoffs. Tech companies are already doing it. Elon Musk was first at Twitter. Then Facebook and Google followed his lead.
You can’t take factory equipment home; so remote work doesn’t always work.
Tesla will not make a hybrid, why?
the scammers will always scam.
They’re pushing this hard I can tell. I still refuse to take any project that is not 100% remote.
I disagree. They’re never going to get that toothpaste back in the tube. Employees who have some leverage are still going to be able to demand and get 100% remote work.
If you have a particular skill set and you can be productive working at home, then yes.
If you're a code monkey, they'll lay you off and hire a cheap replacement in India.
Yep
Pure bullshit.
Companies don’t want to eat the exorbitant costs of empty buildings.
They should have tracked how far sexual harassment claims dropped off a cliff.
You can’t pressure for a sexual favor remotely: nor do it on Zoom or a business chat app which leaves a trail.
For that matter, you can only deliver on sexual favors in the form of a peek show, remotely.
For instance, a study co-authored by Jonathan Levav of Stanford Graduate School of Business and Melanie Brucks of Columbia Business School found that in-person teams generated more ideas than remote teams working on the same problem.
Bingo. I work with companies that have ended leases in multiple locations, including my own.
I work with more people each month who are multiple states away. There's no coming into an office for them.
Our human resources and legal offices have had zero coworker complaints and I can see how the reduced risk of sexual harassment complaints, real or fiction, is a huge plus.
I call BS on that study. It's a business school with a study by people who've never been in business. I've personally had the most productive meetings I've ever had because with a controlled team, people can speak truths that they dare not say in the office. Our teams have expanded to include members that are multiple states away and their members have more skills than the locals. No in-house team could come close to the solutions they generate.
Remote work also means fewer time conflicts. We have meetings back to back where previously the two meetings were hours or days apart because they were with different companies in separate counties.
Remote work has also forced the paper-swishers to define their processes which they had never done before. What previously took four weeks takes 2-3 days.
The accountability is unparalleled. Anyone on the teams can see the date and times the project documents were reviewed and approved by each team member. The slackers were forced to step up their game.
I see more work done in one or two emails now where previously we'd have useless meetings and painful conversations back and forth. The study claims the in-person meetings generated more ideas but doesn't say how many of them were bad ideas.
Any productivity advantages you think you have with an on-site workforce can disappear in an instant if some @sshole in government shuts your industry down.
In addition … I now have employees/contractors working in three states. I was never able to do that when everyone reported to an office.
And finally … I “attended” a meeting today from 10:00 to 11:30 in the morning. Then I had another meeting at 12:00 with a group of people who were 200+ miles away from me. Again — this never would have happened before 2020.
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