[absalom01]

There are probably a few Amazon workers who can actually be effective working from home. Some coders, probably, maybe some copywriters or other people who don’t have supervisory responsibility, or don’t work in teams. But what companies learned over the past couple of years is that the “WFH” experiment, for most people, is an abject failure. Most people I know are back to work in person, and the last stragglers seem to be resigned to having to head back to the office as well.

[cgbg]

I totally disagree with your post.

Offices are concentration camps in most cases—stupid bosses holding endless stupid meetings.

Before I retired I worked at home for several years—it was wonderful and our “virtual” team out performed any of the office drones.

The drones got to attend office meetings to get yelled at about how they couldn’t meet our numbers!

lol

[grey_whiskers]

Do you happen to have any financial interest in commercial real estate?

[ealgeone]

WFH is not an abject failure if you're the right kind of person.

My team is spread out across the country. We only get together once a year for a two day meeting.

With the right internet connection I can do my job from pretty much anywhere.

WFH is the only good thing to come out of the pandemic. It's made smart businesses realize they don't need office space for the most party.

There are some who love the office environment. Not me. I don't want to be around all the wokedokes.

[Alberta's Child]

But what companies learned over the past couple of years is that the "WFH" experiment, for most people, is an abject failure. Most people I know are back to work in person, and the last stragglers seem to be resigned to having to head back to the office as well.

The "WFH" experiment has been an enormous success for me. As soon as the stupid governor of my state declared my business "non-essential" and ordered my industry to shut down our offices, I immediately made plans to relocate elsewhere and move my entire operation into a walk-out basement office in my new home. Every employee was sent to work from home, and they've never been back. I even added a key staff member who lives 400 miles away.

I never stopped working during that COVID fiasco. I spent more time on the road visiting project sites and (for those who were willing) clients over the last three years than ever before.

The only loser in this mess was my former office landlord. Three years after the COVID fiasco started, the building was half vacant. I noticed last week that it is now on the market -- at a very steep discount from what it was worth in 2019.

I talk to peers in my STEM field all the time about this. Everyone seems to fall into three groups:

1. People who work from home and love it.

2. People who work in the office and hate it because (A) they are on a modified 2-3 day work schedule and they're sharing tiny cubicles with other employees; and (B) they hate pissing away 1-3 hours of their lives on those 2-3 days commuting to an urban dump.

3. People who work from home and feel like they're missing out on things in the office ... until they feel much better after talking to their peers in Group #2.

[MinorityRepublican]

Some coders, probably, maybe some copywriters or other people who don’t have supervisory responsibility, or don’t work in teams.

Maybe a few coders. Who are loners. And they find it fun. They'll be fine with the remote work arrangement. Obviously, that's not most of us.