Posted on 06/01/2022 6:20:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
So ya couldn't wait to verify the story before running it? Afraid of getting scooped?
About the same. It's all about meeting your deliverables.
And how many extra hours are you putting in when you would not be able to when commuting or getting on a call out of hours? Probably many
the board works for the shareholders and when production/revenues start to show their wear and tear, there will be a come to Jesus moment.
Back in the early 90’s(?) several companies implemented a WFH model. Pushing back against the cost of office space, etc., and in short order they put the kibosh on that and pulled everyone back in.
This is currently a PC dance based on the BS story of us being under threat from the common cold. Those that continue to implement and support this will quickly be in the minority
Exactly.
It depends how your job is structured, and how much you need to interact with others, as regards how well working from home works.
If you can do your entire job working with online documents, having zoom meetings, and taking phone calls, then working from home can work ok for your job.
If your job involves personal visits to company locations, where you are working with management and employees, or inspecting the conditions at some locations, then zoom and phone calls won’t allow you to do your job as effectively as you could otherwise.
There are some intangibles involved too. You can get “cabin fever” if you are at home all day working. It is good to get out of the house. Though I understand you don’t necessarily have to commute to an office to get out of the house.
Another intangible is involved with the teams of people we all work with. Almost all of us work with other people in our daily jobs, and to me, it’s a positive interaction to be onsite with people, and not just see them on a screen in a zoom conference.
It took a Scamdemic for the companies I work with to finally implement systems that should have been in place two decades ago. I don't suffer fools coming by my desk and productivity has gone through the roof. Things that previously took 4 weeks now can be done in less than a day or 4 days tops.
Calling it Fake Flu makes it sound friendlier then Bio-weapon.
Lol. You tell ‘em Elon. Work from home is a joke in most cases. Where I work we had admins and receptionists “working” from home. I have no idea what they would have to do from home.
Also, our manufacturing personnel were “essential” and couldn’t WFH. So, as I told my boss, those who are WFH essentially got a defacto raise due to no travel related costs. Also told him the production team were heroes for working during the worst of COVID as we were a start-up (went public in December 2020). Boss did NOT agree with any of that but he left the company.
Anyway, I’ve become a huge Elon fan - and he is our competitor.
I am in chip design and nearly the entire industry has moved to work from home.
There are WAY to few of experienced people in this field to piss them off.
Intel pissed off many of their employees with threats back around 2015.
Many left and will never return.
You’re your yore!!!
Haha!!!
#12 Office Space - Motivation Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgg9byUy-V4
I’m a software developer and our company has been virtually all work from home since March 2020 except for those maintaining office building and data centers. Its worked well as far as I can tell other than with one person who was shirking work and was fired. Figure she would have been fired anyway though.
Yah. This is a purge.
Work remotely is a great idea — in moderation. But, every slacker saw the guy down the hall doing it and insisted that it would be discriminatory if he didn’t. So, the worthless HR drones OK’d it, of course.
I have called it loaf from home since it began. There are exceptions but few.
I have also wondered when productivity losses would be seen and the worm would turn.
Next, many who impulsively fled for some remote Shangri-la will find themselves stranded in a house they may no longer afford.
As for programmers, these huge spaces were made for collaboration and creativity. Also for programmers, we have too many writing code for the sake of code and silly useless change.
I’ll enjoy the wales of protese now.
agree with you. the chickens WILL come home to roost.
My 3 sons all work from home. I can attest that they put in well over 40 hrs. a week. Their phone is constantly buzzing with work related activity.
When they come to visit which is seldom since they live in other states, they spend many hours on their laptops doing business meetings. They work for international companies so they work all hours of the day. They have great families and are great dads.
I can not relate since I made it the old fashion way.
Now that gas prices are exploding, big businesses want to order workers to start commuting into the office.
You can’t make up this stuff!
It is only stupid managers that need to see their workers on site to manage them.
Just fire the stupid managers.
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