Posted on 03/26/2023 4:00:48 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Millions of Americans stopped working from home in 2022, with the number of employers reporting some teleworking falling to near pre-pandemic levels, according to a Labor Department report released this past week.
About 72 percent of private-sector establishments reported little to no telework among employees in August to September 2022, compared to about 60 percent from July to September of 2021.
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The Great Experiment is over. Too many grifters.
Roads are pretty busy here. Not as bad as 2019, but headed in that direction.
A guy at work told me last year that he hates that he has to come in the office twice a week because he’d rather roll out of bed in his underwear and work at home.
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It does save me 2+ hours commuting every day, and that’s time I am actually productive.
Spouse and I have worked from home for 2 yrs. Both our employers have shut down our former offices and been told its permanent. We love it. Separate offices so we don’t get on each other’s nerves and for meetings. I hate driving in traffic now.
Best parking spot in the company. Although what I save in gas I now spend on coffee....
Two things you cannot trust any info from any Government department and anything you see in The Hill.
The place where a lot of my friends work still have everyone teleworking. They sold their square block downtown building. They aren’t going back to anything anytime soon.
I see employees at the pharma companies near me. Many of the other non pharma office building lots are still empty.
I live about 23 miles from current N Nevada Tesla operations.
Elon is adding the TRUCK operations-—3000 new employees.
Also-—Microsoft is building a “cloud’ facility about 7 miles from me, but I understand that it doesn’t use more than 50 employees.
Property prices will go up here again.
The empty/under rented commercial buildings is seriously affecting the BANKS.
I drove by their Austin facility, it’s huge.
“he’d rather roll out of bed in his underwear and work at home.”
Who wouldn’t?
The FedGov agency I retired from 2+ years ago has their people coming in one day a week.
Absolutely 100% wrong. You don’t know what you’re talking about at all. I work from home and I’m spending more screen time than I ever have in my entire career.
In fact it’s almost impossible to get away from your computer and get anything to eat from your own kitchen. The meetings, pings from team messages, emails, phone calls, or non-stop.
Furthermore remote work enables an employer to tap a nationwide talent source. Rather than centrally located Talent pool. Or lack of talent pool to be more accurate.
People no longer have to pack up and move their entire family because they lost a local job. The kids can stay in their schools, families aren’t torn apart, etc. etc.
The days of going into the office are Over! And the only ones that pushing it are local city governments that are losing revenue from breakfast lunch and dinner, Parking tickets, garage fees, office rental taxes, Real estate taxes because companies are closing up and moving to remote. Etc. etc.
The non-performers are quickly weeded out and fire just like anywhere else
you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about
I can vouch for every single point you made ...
Not in dc from what I gather. Those bums are mostly still home.
Dilbert character Wally: “I can’t believe I didn’t do any work today but I’m still gonna be paid.”
People vowed they might go to the workplace again but won’t do any more than they did at home goofing off.
As:
I’m not gonna drink any more this year.
And I’m not gonna drink any less, either.
During COVID, my employer kept bumping out the decision to go back to work every six months to help workers with school/day care age. Finally came out and said 2025 at the earliest. More to do with making a decision to renovate, buy or build. With a little luck, I’ll retire out of my basement.
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