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San Francisco ‘Feels Like a Tomb’ as Companies Embrace ‘Work from Home’
Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2021 | Joel B Pollak

Posted on 02/16/2021 6:13:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

San Francisco has become a “desolate” city over the past year, as the coronavirus pandemic forced people to work from home — and companies learned to embrace it.

A few years ago, as Breitbart News reported in 2016, San Francisco was so crowded with workers, and so expensive to live in, that people would commute from hours away each day to reach the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: companies; embrace; sanfrancisco; tomb
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I love hearing this. They reap what they sow. Knock down all the sky scarpers in San Francisco and plant trees. Embrace the suck. You voted for it.
1 posted on 02/16/2021 6:13:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTW, the article states San Fran has a budge surplus? How can that be??


2 posted on 02/16/2021 6:15:40 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Been working from home for a few years now. A tornado knocked our building down and we switched to work from home. The company decided not to get into a new lease.


3 posted on 02/16/2021 6:18:05 AM PST by pas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I saw a lament from some city government source that there are so few tourists coming into the city now that the muggers have had to rely on robbing residents. LOL!

Pity the poor souls who actually have to live there.


4 posted on 02/16/2021 6:25:05 AM PST by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The new “normal” has become a dystopia.


5 posted on 02/16/2021 6:25:18 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: pas

I fail to see why any employer would not embrace work from home where possible.


6 posted on 02/16/2021 6:26:10 AM PST by billyboy15 (')
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It’s simple...... many will not actually work at home. They lack the discipline required to control their inherent laziness


7 posted on 02/16/2021 6:27:49 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its happening in New York City as well. No amount of Federal subsidies will revitalize the cities. Foreigners are no longer investing inAmerican urban real estate as a safe haven for their money. Now they are buying farmland when they invest in real estate.


8 posted on 02/16/2021 6:29:58 AM PST by allendale
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I fail to see why any employer would not embrace work from home where possible

You’ll never get near the productivity from work at home workers. People take off, go shopping, go to the beach. Etc There’s no connectivity to others in your work group.

9 posted on 02/16/2021 6:31:18 AM PST by atc23
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Remote work, made necessary by the health crisis the lies and panic created by the government and media...
10 posted on 02/16/2021 6:31:34 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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It shows that middle managers are useless.


11 posted on 02/16/2021 6:35:07 AM PST by EEGator
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Are you two managers?


12 posted on 02/16/2021 6:35:59 AM PST by EEGator
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employer


13 posted on 02/16/2021 6:39:45 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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So you are also the manager.
In what field of business?


14 posted on 02/16/2021 6:41:04 AM PST by EEGator
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I've been going into my Manhattan office about once a week since this so-called pandemic. But that's really just for a change of pace. Even when I'm in my Manhattan office, all my client calls are done through Zoom or Google Meet (and I'm usually talking to people who are still wearing their pajama bottoms).

I really don't see it ever coming back to what it was. People have gotten used to working out of their homes and now we have technology that allows you to do pretty much anything remotely so long as you do not have a job that requires manual labor of any type.

Now for our field technicians, our warehouse people and our truck drivers, things have gone along pretty much as they always have. You can't do those kind of jobs from home.

15 posted on 02/16/2021 6:41:33 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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It’s simple...... many will not actually work at home. They lack the discipline required to control their inherent laziness

That used to be a concern. But now employees are required to use VPN and companies can see how long they are logged on for, what they do and every keystroke is recorded. If they are slacking off, they will quickly get some supervisory attention. Welcome to the new world!

16 posted on 02/16/2021 6:45:41 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: EEGator

Actually retired contractor on an international scale


17 posted on 02/16/2021 6:48:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication...


18 posted on 02/16/2021 6:49:59 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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A tornado knocked our building down and we switched to work from home. The company decided not to get into a new lease.

It's an ill wind...

19 posted on 02/16/2021 6:52:44 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If only D.C. looked like that. The representatives working from home, not gathering and conniving, and catching whatever that mystery condition is that overtakes them when they get there.


20 posted on 02/16/2021 6:52:53 AM PST by gloryblaze
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