Posted on 08/23/2021 7:57:08 PM PDT by Brookhaven
With the latest wave of return-to-office delays from Covid-19, some companies are considering a new possibility: Offices may be closed for nearly two years.
That is raising concerns among executives that the longer people stay at home, the harder or more disruptive it could be to eventually bring them back.
Many employees developed new routines during the pandemic, swapping commuting for exercise or blocking hours for uninterrupted work. Even staffers who once bristled at doing their jobs outside of an office have come to embrace the flexibility and productivity of at-home life over the past 18 months, many say. Surveys have shown that enthusiasm for remote work has only increased as the pandemic has stretched on.
“If you have a little blip, people go back to the old way. Well, this ain’t a blip,” said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer of Intel Corp. , whose company has benefited from the work-from-home boom. He predicts hybrid and remote work will remain the norm for months and years to come. “There is no going back.”
Return dates have been postponed repeatedly. On Thursday, Apple Inc. told corporate employees that its planned return to U.S. offices would be delayed until at least January.
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Ha ha! Really? How old are you? 3? I am a retired military officer. An MSEE. And, an MBA. I am currently managing numerous defense contracts.
Your response is juvenile. And, based upon your juvenile response I conclude you’re full of it. Goodbye. FreeRepublic has been on a serious downhill slope for years. You are a prime example of this.
Jim Rob, is this the kind of person acceptable to you? And, you ask me for financial support for this?
What Former Democrat said. As long as you have some 1099 income (how most people would do this), you can subtract the office as a percentage of expenses, based onthe percentage of the total sqft of the house/apartment. Mortgage, utilities, and certain repairs/improvements to the whole house. If you somewhat work a side job from home, you can probably manage to deduct most of your side income as expenses on the business.
““It won’t take long for people to figure out that most in face meetings can be replaced with emails.”
Microsoft Teams, rarely even need email. Introverts like myself are content working from home and have proved over many months that we can do our jobs just fine that way. An outstanding performance review proved it. So screw the commute, the traffic, the office shenanigans, the stupid meetings, and all the other BS.
I know. I’m not forgetting anything.
As a teacher for over 30 years, urban, suburban and rural.As a parent of four now adult kids, I ain’t forgetting anything.
A record number of D’s and F’s resulted from the curriculum, teachers, parents and students.
In person classes with masks is far superior for the PARENTS and TEACHERS and ADMIN. It is horrendous for the students.
My students, last year and I’m sure this year, abhorred the masks. You and your kids may be fine with masks and that’s ok. None of my students were fine with them.
And, if I had school age kids I would not have subjected them to the masks or socialist distancing. Thank God I don’t because this is Child Abuse and it’s disgusting. That so many parents are ok with what’s happening to their kids is astounding to me.
Why is in person classes with masks far superior to remote learning for you? Subjecting children to masks, covering their faces, instilling fear of some unknown boogie man they can’t control, altering their childhood, teaching them to submit to some fear or government mandate is somehow better than freedom?
I’m not blasting you for the choices you FREELY made for your family. They are your choices. Just don’t think they are the choices many, very many of us would choose.
I raised four kids. I always did what was best for them regardless of what anyone else thought. They turned out just fine.
LOL!
I love Florida!
Exactly! Apparently, it doesn’t affect Obama’s birthday party or Nancy Pelosi’s DNC fundraiser.
Well Done!! perfectly said
Companies can save more money by sending these remote work jobs to India and China. Why pay for office space and high American wages?
LMAO he doesn’t need to explain it to me.
And you couldn’t even try to disparage him so it’s all good.
He’s the Program Manager so he gets paid the big bucks. He also does most of the work. EE/IT/Network Architect. Guess that’s way above your level.
Maybe you just ain’t that good?
Good one lol. I’m probably older than you. And I think I’ve been here longer than you not that it matter.
I thought my reply was nice. I didn’t call you an asshole or moron.Now that would be juvenile but you already posted that you are a juvenile so there’s that.
Maybe you should have included him in the post? I’ll do that for you and I’m ok with his decision.
That's what I'm thinking. If companies are not able to return American employees to offices anytime soon, they'll stop hiring in USA and they'll open new offices in China and India.
I understand that. It wasn’t until Jan 2020 when he went remote with only travel. Prior to that he was half and half for a couple of years.
Yes, he has a job that is conducive to that. That wasn’t a question or detail.
Many jobs aren’t. Many office jobs are which was the post I was initially replying to. Most office jobs are conducive to being remote.
They’ve been doing that for decades.
My husband works with mostly people from India and has for close to 20 years. The company he works for has outsourced and in his department it’s now just him and a few others. And that was many years before the plandemic. They haven’t hired IT in the USA for decades.
And now we know why our Military is screwed.
I’ve been looking at it and seeing if maybe I could find some investors to pick up some soon-to-be-stupid-cheap office buildings and do conversions to condos like they did in downtown Fort Worth.
Many of the objections are from middle managers who were mostly useless before and are now far more useless.
Young lady I must COMMEND you for some of the most SENSIBLE well-rounded posts I've read in awhile.
Some of these ridiculous idiots , like "ocrp1982", are so caught up in their own SELF_IMPORTANCE it'll wear you out just listening to their never ending stream of POINTLESS BS.
GOD BLESS YOU!
Keep 'em chasing their A$$E$!
We’re not going back. Ever.
I’m a consultant. I will simply rule out any employer who does not offer 100% remote working. I already had one bank find that out the hard way. They were shocked when I told them I’d accepted a job with another bank and that they were just fine with me working 100% remote. Colleagues report similar conversations they’ve had with headhunters and hiring managers. Companies that are willing to be flexible will get the employees they want. Companies which try to demand everybody come back to the office will lose good employees and find it impossible to get the good new employees they want.
The impact on expensive cities will be devastating. Many of their most productive people will simply leave. This means you San Francisco, New York, LA, etc etc.
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