Help me understand why remote work is a detriment?

[num123]

Boomers can't have their office affairs like they used to.

I worked with someone my age that would want to drink and go to the strip club after work to get some time alone before going back to the wife and kids, and even he loves remote work. That routine of getting up early to sit in traffic and leave late to sit in traffic again is soul crushing.

Covid really exposed people that have nothing going on in their life except for work and that shyt is depressing to think about.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I will maintain that this might depend on the nature of your work but as a pretense, if you have a desk job, bare minimum of 95% of all these people can work from home.

I'm in the office every day because I'm the controller and I also have multiple departments under me besides finance.

The accountants under me work hybrid schedules that they set. Other departments like facilities, they are working on site every day.

I personally find myself to be less productive at home but that doesn't apply to others as my staff gets great work done at home.

I'm slated to potentially become cfo next year so it's important for me to be in contact with my supervisor, the current cfo to pick up game.

 

[DEAD7]

1. The employees. About 58% of people in the U.S. can’t work from home at all, and they are typically frontline workers with lower pay. Those who work entirely from home are primarily professionals, managers, and in higher-paying fields such as IT support, payroll, and call centers. The highest paid group includes the 30% of people working from home in a hybrid capacity, and these include professionals and managers.
2. The move. Almost 1 million people left city centers like New York and San Francisco during the pandemic. Those who used to go to the office five days a week are now willing to commute farther because they are only in the office a couple days a week, and they want larger homes to accommodate needs such as a home office. This has changed property markets substantially with rents and home values in the suburbs surging, Bloom said. Home values in city centers have risen but not by much.
3. The commute. Public transit journeys have plummeted and are currently down by a third compared to pre-pandemic levels. This sharp reduction is threatening the survival of mass transit, Bloom said. These are systems that have relatively fixed costs because the hardware and labor, which is largely unionized, are relatively hard to adjust. A lot of the revenues come from ticket sales, and these agencies are losing a lot of money.
4. The office. Offices are changing, with cubicles becoming less popular and meeting rooms more desirable. As some companies incorporate an organized hybrid schedule in which everyone comes in on certain days, they are redesigning spaces to support more meetings, presentations, trainings, lunches, and social time.
5. The startups. Startup rates are surging, up by 20% from pre-pandemic numbers. The reasons: working from home provides a cheaper way to start a new company by saving a lot on initial capital and rent. Also, people can more easily work on a startup on the side when their regular job offers the option to work from home.
6. The downtime. The number of people playing golf mid-week has more than doubled since 2019. People used to go before or after work, or on the weekends, but now the mid-day, mid-week golf game is becoming more common. The same is probably true for things like gyms, tennis courts, retail hairdressers, ski resorts, and anything else that consumers used to pack into the weekends.
7. The organization. More and more, firms are outsourcing or offshoring their information technology, human resources, and finance to access talent, save costs, and free up space. There has been a big increase in part-time employees, independent contractors, and outsourcing. “After seeing how well it worked with remote work at the beginning of the pandemic, companies may not see a need to have employees in the country,” Bloom said.

Its bad...

 

[WIA20XX]

Many of the Fortune 500 Companies wanting to have a recall saw RECORD profits since the institution of work from home.

I wonder how much more these companies could have made if folks didn't have to deal with all this Zoom, Skype, Slack, and Teams nonsense...

 

[The Realist Perspective]

Doesn't matter, just a pure numbers argument. Instead of competing with every accountant in a 100 mile radius for that accounting job. Now you are competing with every accountant nationwide and potentially globally for that job.

Who says that is not the case now? Relo packages are still very much a thing.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

This didn’t help when everyone was boosting about sitting by the pool or watching Netflix all day.

Yep

Sometimes you have to celebrate the W in silence

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Uh, this thread is about remote work sir. Get out your feelings and stay on topic.

Stop bootlicking.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

It can be isolating to some especially if you’re working long hours or starting a new job. Some people just work better in an office atmosphere where they have people to bounce off ideas from.

I went from a fully remote to a hybrid model and I’m a much better employee because of it

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I’ve actually been very vocal in threads over the years with my experience doing the fully remote option and why it was one of the main reasons why I left my previous job.

This isn’t nothing new

Change your name to @Thavoiceofthecorporations

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

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Change your name to @Thavoiceofthecorporations

I’ve accomplished my six figure dream under this hybrid model and new job, so it all worked out for me. Can’t speak for everyone else