Is remote work becoming a thing of the past?
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The days of working from home are fading for more employees as a growing list of companies are calling people back to the office - a move that is met with frustration from some. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY.
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#workforce #wfh #economy
I've been remote working in IT for 4 years now. Not having to battle traffic day in and out has been beautiful
I would love to have a remote job. And hopefully someone like me who has learning disabilities. Can be able to make good money Instead of being with people you don't care for. Plus it save time to get dinner ready when the kids wife or who comes home .
Productivity is going to take a massive hit for sure, every single time I visit office I can barely get anything done.
Do laundry, take a walk, go play golf or shopping and walk the dog. Beautiful!
Same here.
Same I’m onsite, but I barely get anything done. So hard to focus when you’re constantly bothered
Some perform better at working from home some perform better at hybrid work and others perform better at the office
@@davidperry4013 it all depends on what you do and how well you can do your work in various situations, I’m far more productive working at home and I think this should be an option and people shouldn’t be forced to come back to an office if they are doing good work from home, it should be a choice and not obligatory in that case.
This is about power. Businesses just want to control their workers.
That's all it's about.
@@ac75911 But something is wrong with companies. They value profit over humans. For example, where I work only to pay for 6 holidays despite being closed 12 per year. Why? Because it is a cost-cutting measure.
Aren't there tools to monitor what they're doing?
@@Nicholas.Tsagkos They are several programs and tools to monitor what employees are doing, yeah.
However, there are several issues with those programs and tools. First, they are not as accurate (or there are way around them) Second, there are some security and privacy concerns regarding those programs and tools outside of the workplace. Third, there are also some legal questions regarding those programs and tools outside of the workplace. Legal those monitoring tools are only supposed to be in the workplace, i.e. office but if you are working from home it blurry the line, (the question was raised during the pandemic but never answer to the best of my knowledge)
Finally, while yeah, those programs and tools give you a level of control, it is not the same level of control as having butt in seats in the office. Using a school example, it is like the difference between a regular teacher and a substitute teacher. There is still an adult in the room, but one with much less authority.
That's how it should be. Workers got hired knowing they had to go into the office so they should be fired if they don't return.
With road rage and gas prices on the rise, if you can work from home, you should be allowed to. If you were able to do it for as long as many ppl have, they should continue to do so.
TRUTH
@@danponitlong i HATE how Iger doesn’t directly have to address these concerns
Road rage, high gas prices, snowstorms or other weather to deal with.
@@ac75911 highway tolls bridge tolls and lost time commuting or in traffic
preach brother. 100% the truth.
Cities need to adapt to changing times and not blame remote work for the city's recovery. Working from home is sustainable, decreases the carbon footprint, traffic, and provides much needed opportunity for housing the homeless in vacant space.
@@ac75911 That's another good point to extract - downtowns shouldn't thrive on 9-5 business alone. It should also be a place for people to live who will naturally spend their money in their neighborhoods.
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart very astute observation. In my city people actually do live downtown. It's made it safer and businesses thrive because they have a reason to open on weekends and after 5 pm.
Teleworking has actually benefited my employer. I've started my day earlier because I'm already awake anyway. I've worked longer doing little tasks when normally I would have bolted for the parking lot.
You're so pro establishment and all for the wrong reasons.
@@danbee415 How could you be so wrong with so few words?
They are obviously anti-establishment for some very mild reasons.
I am anti-establishment for very radical reasons.
Which establishment are you talking about, let's have a discussion. Starting with what you think pro-establishment means.
Or feel free to disappear into insignificance, that also works for me.
Oh I love brawling traffic in the morning and taking a s*** next to my co-workers in the public bathroom in between meetings. I also love being constantly distracted by people walking up to me and asking me questions while I'm busy in the zone doing my work. Having remote workers come back to the office is bad for the business's bottom line. Couldn't get any work done there. I'm way more productive at home
remote/wfh is the future, they're just afraid of it. who ever went against efficiency, convenience and saving money.
My IT company is failing becase the boomer owner decided to make folks come to office and now they have quit to find remote work jobs.
A recruiter told me other day that this is going to be a thing of the past soon, which to me is unbelievable
Considering I have been remote 7 years, don’t know what they are talking about bc companies actually save money. 😂
Good!
@@Ellie80681 They're recruiters, of course they don't know what they're talking about
Lol you do know HR folks never work from home. Even in my previous company, during lockdown, their department was required to be onsite while the rest of us is working from home. Left that company and I’m currently working on a permanent wfh job. Most of my previous colleagues are also working from home, barely know anyone I know from that previous company that are working on site. People are looking to work remotely nowadays.
@@Ellie80681government want people back to help towns
They want to pay you the same salary and expect you to pay for high gas prices, expensive lunches. Another reason to start your own business then work remotely.
when you start your own company you'd suddenly realize you want your employees to be in the office for reasons you'd only figure out when you have a business.
Seriously? Since when should an employee be compensated for gas? Maybe employers should pay for high daycare costs as well. There were no issues before Covid but now all these delusional employees want every benefit! The selfishness and delusion is off the charts.
@@WOTM8 Except no. Productivity INCREASED with work from home.
@@deputy3690 If they want us in the office, they should pay more to offset the higher fuel costs, not to mention car maintenance, fast food, daycare, etc. Now do you see why work from home worked so well? Because those costs weren't entirely necessary
Im working on starting my own business.
I've realized how much time I've been wasting everyday commuting to office
If you're getting a remote job make sure it's a term in the contract, if it's not, anything can change tomorrow.
Working from home is a skip button for traffic. I love it.
1:09 she nailed it lol
Nope. Productivity is Higher than ever.
My employer acknowledged that they’re saving movies of dollars from not having office space. They’ll maintain one small building. However everyone else is eligible for remote work. So it depends on the company and the type of work they provide. I am fully remote and as productive as ever.
I guess your company is not run by boomer lizards like mine is. Can't wait to leave my 2 week notice.
Correct.
We are being gaslit by media funded by real estate billionaires.
Rich people are losing money, so obviously they think it is time for poor people to start making sacrifices.
We should fight it with everything, it is an industrial revolution of sorts, and I intend to win it!
Not to worry - this is also an age issue. Once the younger crowd moves forward things will balance out and become more remote again.
Thank God.
Doubt it, remote work prevents people from making connections.
@vegetadbz6855 So you don't care about the company moving forward. Then you're one of those disposable employees. Got it.
@MrDude826 Change something about your personal life that potentially impacts your availability for your employer and see how disposable you are. If I have to regularly calibrate myself and cultivate superficial relationships to further someone else's ambitions, I'd just as well start my own business and do that for myself. I'm actually in the process of doing so, but that's another matter. Your threats mean nothing, when we've become disillusioned by corporate heads repeating the same thing for generations. No amount of working through your pto and showing up at every Christmas will save you when the share holders pockets don't feel deep enough. I disagree with a lot of Gen z but I love how they've got the workforce on it's head, because it's due for an overhaul. If this means we'll be retaliated against, that's fine too. Humans are adaptable and we're no strangers to adversity. In fact we've been uncomfortable, undervalued and undefunded for a long time putting up with bs from folks with your mindset. So, thanks for the conditioning.
@@MrDude826 It also increases productivity. And improves the mental health of the employees. Even the physical health of employees improved because they had time to go work out at the gym, go for walks, etc. Work from home WORKS for the WORKERS.
It'll be intresting watching them compete for the most talented employee's wanting to work remotely. There has to be an incentive for the employee.
Pretend all you want, we not going back!
Of course not. It's just some old boys and boomers raging about not being able to control people directly, no trust whatsoever. I remain working exclusively remotely and I will only search for such jobs in the future. No need for me to waste time, energy, money on commuting, having to cope with weird people on site, in massively occupied space. Horrible experience.
I completely agree. I'm only looking for remote work. If a job posting says on-site, I still apply. If I get an offer, I'll request to work remotely. I am not giving up my freedom. I'll figure out how to survive some other way.
Amen! Agreed %100. I enjoy hybrid or fully remote with some work travel mixed in. Way better than cubicles every day.
And why can't they figure out how to manage people via phone, Teams video calls, email? It's absurd. Maybe to manage they need to be pacing around the office watching us haha.
You don't manage people and it shows.
@@MrDude826 You don't see the benefits of allowing work from home and it shows.
This is why I’m going to keep posting about my company! We need work-life balance.
I thought work life balance was just some millennial catch phrase until this boomer got to experience it.
Three years teleworking and now I get it.
Oh my God, it's amazing how a life without daily driving, fast food and poor sleep immediately improves your physical and mental health.
I could have retired two years ago. But now I could easily make it to 69 or even 70 producing income instead of draining social security.
The old saying about work used to be "back to the grindstone". My work-life no longer has a "grindstone" and it's the next best thing to wealth.
@@itsabovemenow1016 Enjoy life, man. That's the way to do it. Working from home simply gives you the flexibility to do so.
Here’s my answer to back to the office 🖕🏼😂
I wish I had a remote job 😭😭
You should look now while they still have positions out there.
become a project manager :)
@@kaioser good advice. I gave up my good salary in London's most important control centre to become an assistant project manager, taking a £20k pay cut in the process, best decision of my life. Only go to the office two days a week. Life is absolutely wonderful. Studying to get my qualifications and become a PM. Mon-Fri office days are over! That robotic lifestyle is no more!
Currently my company has given the discretion to the managers who can autonomously decide how the hybrid model will work out. There is now an inconsistency within the company on how people come in. I switched departments earlier last year and previously my old manager would have me come in 3 days in a week. My new manager and department has given us the flexibility to come in whenever we want even though he encourages us to come in more often he will NOT force us to come in. I spoke to my other friends in different departments and the rules are different. One friend has to come in minimum once a month, my other friend has a set schedule to come in every other Wednesday and another friend said her department has to come in everyday.
I was working with a company I truly liked except they had a hybrid label and kept letting us know we would have to come into the office. I started looking for a remote position. Found a company that had remote only position. I am not going anywhere. I have an office that I have invested in. I am just as productive as I ever was in office.
Until recession is over. Recession is always followed by "Great Resignations". When ecoonomy is back booming, so will be hiring.
That's when these employers will bow down on their knees and beg employees not to quit while offering WFh.
Funny how everyone wants their warehouse workers, shippers, etc to go to the office but the IT, CSR people are too good for it.
I had to return to my office twice since 2021 due to a flood in my condo and my modem going kaput. Each was for a week and I got less done in the office. In addition, I wrecked my car driving in commute traffic, spent more money being away from home. My work has always been remote of the labs on campus. What does it matter if the remote is at my home or the office?
THIS IS 2023 DON'T LET MILLIONAIRES BOSSES OR OTHER EMPLOYERS / SUPERVISORS TELL YOU WHEN TO WORK IT'S YOUR BODY...EMPLOYEES TELL BIG MILLIONAIRES/ SUPERVISORS THAT YOU ARE TIRED OF THEIR PAYMENT WHILE RENT/ MORTGAGES/ FOOD/ GAS / CAR PAYMENTS IS HIGH....THIS 2023....
Seeing a lot more "on site" in the want ads but once hired, they don't care. They just want their real estate to go up.
EXACTLY..THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES... BUT AS LONG AS THE EMPLOYEES LET THEM GET RICHER ....
I have been working remote for about 7 years, so idk what they mean….
Same here. I truly cannot understand the mindset and generalization against all types of remote work from people who aren't even aged 50 yet.
i know plenty of people who have quit their jobs when they got told they have to go back to brick and mortar store .... foh
no worries...there will be a whole new pandemic right before the '24 election cycle
Work from home is now backbone of industry which use computer and one of the major reason behind it is, since pandemic a lot of associates are ill but contribute more than office counterparts
Regardless of company policies there are tons of remote jobs still available. The demand is high now for remote jobs so there is a lot of competition but don’t give and keep applying and interviewing until you find that modern era work style job WE ALL NEED!
LET ME TELL YOU EMPLOYEES IN AMERICA ALL THAT CRAZY KIL, DEAD OVERTIME IS GOING TO IRIS TAXES OK....
I’ve been a telecommuter since 2006 and it suddenly became annoying in 2020 with all the social butterflies wanting to connect.
Yes, I agree companies should send all the annoying employees who want to “connect” back to the office.
hahahahahaha, thats so true.
A thing of the past? More like the future 😎
Remote workers render Middle Managers useless. Add to that the fact that we are inherently afraid of cameras. If not for these two things, we could take 50% of the cars off the road.
If you say you are working at home, work, do NOT throw work that should be YOUR obligation to do on others so you have less to do and when come to the office once a week try work, do not keep talking during work hours.
Oh, the humanity! How dare employers ask people to go to work to work?!! 😫These people are in for a rude awakening when the next recession layoffs really start to kick in.
It is adorable that you think driving into work is going to change chances of a layoff.
@@Sigmacenturion Not my point bud. I’m saying that when there are mass layoffs, which their already are, people won’t(shouldn’t) care if a new job they potentially get is remote or not. They’ll just be grateful they have a job at all.
THIS SUCKS. Being allowed to skip a commute once or twice a week saves money on fuel and hours wasted driving. Saving the fuel for trips one desires rather than one is obligated to saves much. Not to mention the ecological impact of making an avoidable trip.
This idea that people are more productive owe,I guess in an office environment is BS, it all depends on what you do for a job, my work can be done 100% remote and was shifting that way even before the pandemic, there is zero reasons for me to ever have to step foot in an office and most office environments now are the open office environments which are horrible for working and focusing on your work. Also, this idea of connecting better with co-workers and this whole teamwork thing is better in the office is also false, the majority of time is spent in useless meetings and socializing consists of just talking about work while at work or useless small talk, there is nothing connecting anyone in an office environment that positively impacts productivity, in fact, it can be the contrary, I’m far more productive working from home and the other benefit of working from home is it eliminates middle management which has been utterly useless for so long, if bosses are saying it’s time to come back to the office then they are people you don’t want to power for in the first place and at this point it should be an option, but not mandated.
What the employer wants and what they will get will be drastically different.
We should be 4 days work days and 3 days weekend.
I love remote work. I have no kids, just a wife and a dog. A nice house with a nice home office overlooking my backyard. I'm much more productive at home. I can get done what would take me 8 hours in office in 3 hours at home. No commute. And I get to dress comfortably all day every day.
Literally i was a sandwhich artist for subway this one time & they wanted to have me do 10 more jobs that had little to do with making a sandwhich can u believe the aweful structure all without non money benefits to make my job easier little tobbe said i sued & won for emotional distress of having to endure that i got $30k in less than 2 weeks my advise get into similar situations for each new jobs like this & just keep racking up them checks and u to cab be a millionaire in 2 years
Seriously ? I need to see proof
I like being in the office. It’s best to separate home life from work life
As long as work is done why does on office or work from home matter
What does it matter to companies if their workers complete all their projects from home? Maybe, companies want to go back to the good ole days. When people slaved and worked late hours for free?
Also, being physically present with a person doesn't equal connection. This is not an in person connection issue. What a crock of $#&@. Some ppl are married to people they hardly communicate with and yet they physically sleep in same bed every night. This isnt an in-person physical issue at all. Showing up physically doesnt always equal connection nor emotional intimacy at all.
This is simply commercial landlords wanting to collect rent checks from companies. But, they cant because they all work from home now.
1:35 That hair style caught off guard
Why people speaks smiling stupidly?..
It's the cringest thing ever...
Those women from the video omg
Im a real chatty cathy in the office so you really wouldn’t want me there. My productivity goes down along with everyone else’s. Im like the crab in the bucket y’all. Im better off WFH
This is not true. I work from home and i make $5 more now than my last job job working in office.. also the jobs in my town dont pay much at all
Good because I'll be happy to take your talent from you. More than half my team are remote. No shortage of highly qualified candidates whenever we post a new position. Companies adapting to remote will gain top talent while those remain stuck in old ways will lose out.
NEVER NEVER don't you know that Corporate America has lost its Power. I only work remotely proudly while I'm on a Beach with a Laptop
What if certain people don't care about being physically together?
What about the environment
In my company, the employees who WFH are secretly ghosting coasting and doing several jobs, quiet quitting and bullshitters ... some of them are doing 3-4 jobs making a grand total of $200K. They don't even respond to emails, voicemails and texts immediately ... so, these days my company no longer beg them to come back to the office, but instead, just LAYOFF them.
How about some people that "say" they work from home but beside of the fact that they are home they
throw some of what should be their job to other departments so they have even less to do? There are companies that allow some workers to do that to others and that is so pathetic.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No
Folks, look for other opportunities that offer wfh benefits. There are tons of them even from companies abroad. I've recently switched this way and it's the best decision I've taken for myself and my family.
I know it's easier said than done, but there are always better opportunities and companies that fight for good talent.
@renegade: What companies are you making reference to?
So spoiled. Wait until the next recession.
Thank God people are going back to the office. It's so difficult to get decent customer service. No one wants to answer the phone anymore. Then if you get someone to answer a phone, they are in a hurry to get off, and back to their soap operas. Service is horrible and I hope they bring them back QUICK!
Sure that is completely believable...
Remeber when working for one of these companies was something to be proud of.
I hope they lose ALL their talent!
I don't get it why is this such a big deal
Short answer is yes
Being a boss, I feel remote working is loosing control of the employee since one cannot oversee them on aa minute by minute basis!
If you need to micromanage you're doing it wrong anyway
You’re a crappy boss if you can’t trust people to do their jobs and have to know what they are doing minute by minute, I don’t know anyone that would want to work in an environment like that if they have the choice. You might want to consider another line of work because those days are numbered in work environments where a boss is constantly micromanaging people and has no trust in their employees.
You're being sarcastic though right? Managing employees minute-by-minute? Does your own boss do that to you?
modern day financial slave owners the boomer bosses.
Then your creating a toxic environment for talent if you are managing minute by minute 😢😢
No not going back if they try take my ball and skilll find another one
Evangelical mennonite brethern religious gold liberty rare and bullion prov 26 verse 2 ps 109 verse 28 num 22 verse 12 23 verse 20 through 21
Bob Eiger is a Type A micro-manager. Go away, Boomer!
End remote work!
NEVER NEVER don't you know that Corporate America has lost its Power. I only work remotely proudly while I'm on a Beach with a Laptop
Just go to the office, work from home is absolute joke
Those productivity and profit increases from work from home were no joke.
@@notlNSIGHT it was three almost four yrs ago now, time to move forward and grow the economy. It’s not all about working from the couch and what office workers want.
I work for an employer who transitioned to remote work for much its operations during COVID and have kept the practice in place to a lesser extent in the past year. The problem that many of these remote workers made was thinking short-term. What happened? They fell in love with it. No longer want to return to the office or are begrudgingly coming back.
I am for returning to the office. The cons outweigh the pros from an employee development and opportunity perspective. I understand that some employees are content with not moving up the corporate ladder but you can also not be upset by your low raises. You got to work from home... How much did you save doing that? Do these employees factor that in? No. Go on social media and you see these same coworkers went out more than ever. Terrible planning.
I take the side of the employer on this one. Sure, it is great to roll out of bed 10 minutes before work or take your laptop/headset to the restroom but is that professional? Absolutely not. Work is not supposed to be convenient.
I'm on a hybrid schedule, and really, I don't see the point of being in the office. The only thing that really matters is whether or not work gets done, and my team gets it done regardless of where we work. As for the theoretical advantages of being in the office, they just don't materialize in practice. We still use Microsoft Teams for collaboration and meetings even when we're in the office. Most meetings aren't using the breakout rooms in the office. A lot of times, you have teams with members calling in from across multiple locations, so there's no point in using a meeting room when the meeting has to be done remotely anyway. As for the social aspect, the social stuff are distractions from the work. If my coworkers are having a side conversation about football, that probably ends up distracting me from my work. Also, my coworkers are I aren't really friends. We don't do things outside of work. I have actual friends outside of work for my social life.
Then there are the noticeable disadvantages of in office work. The biggest one is in the form of health. When I'm in the office, I'm more likely to be sleep deprived, less likely to eat healthier, and less likely to get good enough exercise than when I work remotely. When I'm working remote, I have time and energy after work to cook and go to the gym. Office days are a lot harder for that. I'm more likely to simply grab something on the way home from work during the commute and spend the evening trying to relax and decompress after the day. I'm also probably less productive on my office days on account of sleep deprivation.
During lockdown the skies were clearer than they had ever been. Now pollution is worse than ever. Do you want pollution?
As usual, fault of humans that tend to break everything.
Oh come on! A raise? Yes $ 0.50 raise is a huge jump wow!! I can buy a new house omg!!! Raise is trash.
This is old person mentality. Suffering doesnt equate to better productivity. Having convenience doesnt mean people are slacking off. Do some people abuse the system? Sure. But its not like every worker who doesnt work remote is a model employee.
Tech employers have all the power in the world over tech workers, yep returning to office is returned
Is that why the companies who offer remote work are flourishing and the ones that don't are sinking?
Most of the people complaining about returning to in person work sound unprofessional and somewhat lazy. They threaten to quit if they don't get their way. These don't sound like the employees a company would want to retain anyway.
That’s like 80% of the workforce.
@@cvzxxzcv They say most of the workforce will be replaced by AI in the next couple of decades anyway.
@@-.-_123 "They" have been saying that for years. Some jobs can't be done by AI.
@@ac75911 I guess they are willing to settle for what they have now instead of networking and building their options. You just can't get the same opportunities cooped up in your house.
@@-.-_123 These are established workers I'm talking about who are fully remote, in their 30's and older. Not 20's age just starting out who need to network in-person to get ahead.
AI enters the chat....
So you've chosen unemployment.
Automation oh wait people are still doing those jobs still...
I see these people whining about having to come back to work, like kids at the end of summer break, and it's silly. Structure has a positive effect on productivity. The on-site work setting provides structure, which actually makes people more productive. Lack of structure leads to laziness, in all of us, myself included. For example, when I went to college and had to go to classes, I learned quickly, because I had to show up where there were no temptations or distractions to break my focus. Also, being around other people, physically, is healthy for human beings. Last but not least, remote work fails the minute there's a power outage or disruption to the wifi signal.
I believe productivity is also an individualized matter. I personally thrived since I was in high school in home studies, then online college(under grad plus graduate), now all the way into my remote career. We have to allow people to not only work smarter but have freedom to do what is best for them. There are many people like myself that actually produce and function better in their own environment. I actually have less distractions at home then an on-site office! I am also a millennial so I can acknowledge I have growing up with tech on my side to maneuver well in virtual environments. Our world is becoming more and more digital and there are some great opportunities to embrace with that!
@@danielled23 I really do think there are some people who can handle managing their own time and can be effective workers. I think there are also people who can't. I think it's down to the matter of how people handle difficulty. I worked 6 years before I went to college, so I had the right mindset. Still, having both pressure and positive support from actual human beings improved how productive I was in school. If you need the money and value your job you will work. If you don't, you probably won't. I think every situation is unique. However, I do still think that employees should be made to come to work every week or so to check in with a live human being. Being GenX, I still believe there's much to gain from actually interacting in the real world with living, breathing human beings. LOL, maybe I'm old school. Whatever.
@@Nicole-lx1um Ya, I think there will always be people who will unfortunately take advantage of any work type of environment they are in! Much success to you regardless!
EXACTLY
Try working in a professional environment with open concept layouts, constant distraction from coworker's side conversations/meetings, 4 commutes per day (to office, to lunch, back to office, back home), time wasted walking across sprawling campuses (work in building A, meeting in building H), on, and on and on... I can be around human beings outside of the office. And regardless of what they tell you, we are not a "family". Your points about your personal college experience shows your lack of perspective and experience. I work with software engineers and I assure you they are just as productive, even more so, in remote locations. Why do you think so many companies employ workers out of India, Europe, etc?? Because it works. It just works better when the labor is cheaper it seems.
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This is great news…COVID is over time to go back to the office.
No, it is not over.
This isn't about you. This should be about liberty - people's liberty to find the work arrangement that maximizes their productivity.
“I never got to work from home, so nobody else should either.”
Not only what others said, but when quarantine was in place (And we broke it far too soon) the skies had never been clearer in cities. Now they are all smoged up again. Do you really love old fashioned twentieth century thinking that we must be out and about everyday? Is pollution appealing to you?
I would say whatever the employee prefers, let them decide. If their productivity is the same, let them continue to work from home. It saves gas and will reduce traffic and pollution etc.
If you dont like it, just quit
Simple right?
Worst thing that could have ever happened. Companies need to get everyone back in the office.
Worse thing for whom?
@@ac75911 For companies.
@@deputy3690 Might want to check on the many "remote-first" companies who are flourishing hiring talented people from all over the US/world and not wasting $ on physical offices then. I have worked for a couple of them who were remote prior to covid, remote is nothing new and is here to stay. At the very least, today's office jobs are going to be default hybrid because that's what a lot of workers have demanded after pushing back against office every single day. People going fully remote was really the worst thing for micromanagers.
@Adam Coppola Workers will do other chores while they are at home make no mistake about that. As soon as HIPPA law violations start snowballing there will be lawsuits for these hospitals because private information is not safe on home computer screens. Remote working will work for some, but not all.
@@deputy3690 Major productivity and profit increases during the work from home period: 😏
Aww poor workers they actually have to go to work and not be on vacation working
You don't make any sense. They traveled to work from anywhere, sometimes to the beach, but still were working during it. Was it really a vacation then?
Comments like this sound very dumb. I'm guessing you're old and don't get what many people do nowadays for work. We work from a computer, have meetings on a computer, talk with colleagues on a computer. What does it matter if we sit at home or some depressing office?