Working From Home 'A Permanent Shift', New US Data Suggests (msn.com) 149
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
Working from home appears to be here to stay, especially for women and college-educated workers, according to economic data released Thursday that revealed how Americans spent their time in 2022. The data, from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), suggests that the pandemic changes that upended the workplace, family life and social interactions continue to have a lasting effect on life in the United States.
Many white-collar workers who hunkered down at home during pandemic shutdowns have returned to the office, but extraordinarily high numbers have not. For many, remote work appears to be a new normal... Working from home "is a permanent shift," said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. "We're now seeing many companies start as remote-first companies." The new data is a "continuation of what we've been seeing" in the American workforce, she said...
The annual survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau asks thousands of Americans how they spent the past 24 hours of their lives across different categories of activities. Results from 2019 through 2021 showed that the pandemic dramatically shifted how much time people spend working at home. The new data suggests those changes persisted through 2022, even as much of life returned to normal as more people got vaccinated and boosted against the coronavirus, and case counts fell...
There is a clear benefit to remote work for employees, Pollak said. Working from home saves time and money on commuting, and many employees want the flexibility to work from anywhere, to better support their parents or children. She said remote work also is "part of the reason for this huge spike in new business formation. It has lowered the barriers to starting a business."
The 2022 figures show 34% of workers over the age of 15 still said they were working at home — and 54% of workers with a workers with a bachelor's degree or higher. (Meanwhile, workers without a high school diploma "were even less likely to work from home in 2022 than they were before the pandemic.")
The Post also reports another interesting finding in the data. "Americans ages 20 to 24 are the only group that spent more time socializing than before the pandemic. Teenagers, and adults ages 55 to 64, reported an overall decline in time spent socializing since before the pandemic."
Many white-collar workers who hunkered down at home during pandemic shutdowns have returned to the office, but extraordinarily high numbers have not. For many, remote work appears to be a new normal... Working from home "is a permanent shift," said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. "We're now seeing many companies start as remote-first companies." The new data is a "continuation of what we've been seeing" in the American workforce, she said...
The annual survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau asks thousands of Americans how they spent the past 24 hours of their lives across different categories of activities. Results from 2019 through 2021 showed that the pandemic dramatically shifted how much time people spend working at home. The new data suggests those changes persisted through 2022, even as much of life returned to normal as more people got vaccinated and boosted against the coronavirus, and case counts fell...
There is a clear benefit to remote work for employees, Pollak said. Working from home saves time and money on commuting, and many employees want the flexibility to work from anywhere, to better support their parents or children. She said remote work also is "part of the reason for this huge spike in new business formation. It has lowered the barriers to starting a business."
The 2022 figures show 34% of workers over the age of 15 still said they were working at home — and 54% of workers with a workers with a bachelor's degree or higher. (Meanwhile, workers without a high school diploma "were even less likely to work from home in 2022 than they were before the pandemic.")
The Post also reports another interesting finding in the data. "Americans ages 20 to 24 are the only group that spent more time socializing than before the pandemic. Teenagers, and adults ages 55 to 64, reported an overall decline in time spent socializing since before the pandemic."
People just quit (Score:5, Insightful)
So companies are forced to back down because everyone who works for them got together and did the same thing. You know what that's called? Solidarity.
It's like a Union without the Union. Now imagine how much better our lives would be if we had actual Unions?
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I was with you until you made the comment about H1Bs. No, the shortage of programmers is very real. Earlier this year, I had no trouble finding a remote job. Since then, I've been hiring US programmers, and find that the competition is stiff.
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While I'm at it try hiring some people in their 40s and 50s. Again you're going to have to train them because nobody's been hiring them. But I'm old and I do it and there's a ton of us who can do good work but can't compete with cheap overseas labor. I can't com
Re:People just quit (Score:5, Insightful)
Programming isn't hard.
psst... our community college 2-year CS major has a 5% success rate
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Re:People just quit (Score:4, Informative)
Not surprised. CS isn't programming and people tend to find that out after enrolling. I had to drop out of CS in the first year for financial reasons and I applied for programming jobs just for the hell of it, assuming they'd file my CV in the bin. I heard several different versions of "CS guys are not very useful." If the course doesn't appeal to programmers and the people doing the hiring don't want them, I'm surprised 5% stay the course.
Perhaps it's just because I grew up in a poorer area, but my experience of hiring people with degrees in general has been that they came from well to do middle-class backgrounds and loafed in university instead of getting a job. The people with talent tended to gravitate to employment rather than finish their education. I don't like that this has been my experience, I'm not sitting here smug that us drop-outs are "superior", I've just not been proven wrong yet.
30 years ago you wouldn't have had to drop out (Score:2, Insightful)
The H1-B program means they don't need you. They don't need to let you go to college. To give you a decent life. They've got all the labor they want trained for free in another country. So they n
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Get angry at the [snip] politicians that sold you out.
There, fixed that for you. Don't get so caught up with political identity that you are unable to see that both major parties are heavily paid by special interest groups, neither one (as a whole) gives a single rat's ass about you and me (or anyone else without deep pockets), and both sell us out on a regular basis.
As far as H1B's go, however, Trump tried more than any other president to eliminate that scourge. He issued several executive orders to that end, and made it official policy in his administration,
I don't blame the politicians (Score:2)
Voters need to show up for primaries and they need to do a little bit of googling for the candidates instead of paying attention to political advertisements or worse voting based on name recognition alone. The reason Ron DeSantis is doing all th
I didn't say community college (Score:2)
For 90% of programming you can get somebody ready to go in about 6 months. They're not going to be geniuses but they'll be at least moderately productive and in a year they'll
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psst... our community college 2-year CS major has a 5% success rate
He said it wasn't hard, which it isn't. However, that success rate has more to do with the overabundance of people majoring in it having to compete for jobs after graduation.
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Programming isn't hard.
It depends entirely on the type of programming, and varies along a wide scale from very easy to so hard that only a select few in the world can do it.
Please be more careful with the generalizations.
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Re:People just quit (Score:4, Informative)
Sure, if you're writing data entry screens or building reports, programming isn't hard. When you have to scale to support millions of concurrent users, things get a little more challenging.
It's like road building. Any redneck on a road grader can "build a road" by carving a dirt path through a field. But if you need a 10-lane freeway, you need a whole different kind of person.
By the way, my company pays competitive salaries for senior talent. We have no problem with developers in their 50s, if they know their stuff. I'm 56 myself. We also only occasionally ask for overtime, and we welcome remote workers. In other words, you know nothing about what "we" want.
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"Employees keep getting told there's unlimited jobs out there. It's a lie so that Congress will give them more H1-Bs, but it means people think, rightly or wrongly, that its safe to quit. "
Mmm, you think it's the Deep State organizing this, or is is the Papists or the Weltjudentum?
Your conspiracy theories need some focus.
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That's why we need disorganised, incompetent government with plenty of polarisation & in-fighting, prioritise guns over healthcare, & to persistently feed everyone the idea that this is what freedom should look like.
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How do we change this?
Step 1 to my mind is to fix the data. Count people working, looking for jobs, AND have given up. That last group is ignored today when talking employment.
I don't work in HR or government or economics so I don't know the systemic issues. Just what I keep hearing isn't true or helpful.
Yes, it's a permanent shift (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, it's a permanent shift and some companies have embraced it.
My company just merged with a much larger company and they also like the remote worker paradigm.
It takes a financial load off them and has numerous other benefits that employers salivate over (fewer sick days and almost zero workplace violence, just to name a couple).
I'm happy to pay a little more in my electric bill in exchange for the benefits of working remotely, it comes out way in my favor no matter how I look at it.
I've posted this before but it bears repeating:
I like sleeping in an extra hour every day.
I like not having to commute.
I like the flexibility to relax during the day while still working.
I like not having to bring food to work or paying inflated prices at local eateries.
I like not having co-workers sharing their germs with me.
I like the ability to do stuff around the house, make the bed, do laundry, etc while I'm "in" a meeting.
I like being able to take a short nap or get some downtime as my schedule permits.
I like being able to be home as soon as my day is done.
I like not having to drive next to crazies in the snow and rain.
I like not grinding my way through traffic.
I like not risking my car to the driving skills of the bozo next to me.
I like not having to pay for gas and all the other expenses that come with a daily commute.
I like not waiting at stoplights or navigating detours due to road construction.
I like not paying thousand of dollars every year to be allowed to park my car while I'm in an office.
What could an office possibly offer me that I'd actually prefer compared to that? Free pizza once a week? A foozball table? Free snacks?
So yeah, it's a permanent shift. There's no going back. What all these cities will do with excess real estate and buildings is for them to figure out but the trend lines are clear, remote work IS a thing now, period, end of story.
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Re: Yes, it's a permanent shift (Score:5, Insightful)
We have a slack channel at work so we can tell each other if we're going to be out of the office. Mostly it's people going to appointments or saying they're sick, but it is also people saying they didn't sleep well and they need a nap, or they're going for a walk/ride/run/whatever. And the other day one guy said that he was going to be out for an hour to take his kid to a music festival down the street.
We love working from home because we can finally live our lives and not just live to work. We shouldn't have to retire to enjoy life.
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It's those partial day things that really make the difference. Even if you have something that will absorb 100% of your attention for an hour or two, that still leaves plenty of the day to work unless it would get burned up by commuting to the office and the extra energy drain of fighting traffic. And especially if the something happens in the middle of the day. When your work 'commute' is a 30 second walk across the room, no big deal. But if it would mean doing 2 full commutes in one day, hello personal da
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Re: Yes, it's a permanent shift (Score:5, Interesting)
We have a slack channel at work so we can tell each other if we're going to be out of the office.
Exactly. It's common to have a channel to let people know you'll be out for a bit. My team uses it all the time for stuff like that.
We love working from home because we can finally live our lives and not just live to work. We shouldn't have to retire to enjoy life.
THIS ^^^^ This is the meat of it right there. I want to live my life and have work interfere with it as little as possible.
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I wouldn't go that far, but just like the employee is the necessary evil to make a product for the employer, the job is the necessary evil for the employee to get money.
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I wouldn't go that far, but just like the employee is the necessary evil to make a product for the employer, the job is the necessary evil for the employee to get money.
I get it. I do my job and I do it well. But it's not my life, it's just what I do to make money.
My life is my life, and to put it bluntly, I don't want my job impinging on my life anymore than it has to. Remote work brings me closer to that condition.
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What could an office possibly offer me that I'd actually prefer compared to that? Free pizza once a week? A foozball table? Free snacks?
Yep, that's the big question.
I like my coworkers, but not enough to make physically hanging out with them every day worth the long list of cons.
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This right there.
If I want to hang out with my coworkers after work, I ask them if they'd be interested to spend an evening or a weekend on some activity.
You might notice that this doesn't require them to be coworkers. That's something you can do with something we call "friends". Coworkers may or may not be friends. Friends may or may not be coworkers. These two groups can have various levels of overlap, but you will notice that it doesn't really matter.
Because hanging out with someone depends on whether I
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Yes, it's a permanent shift and some companies have embraced it.
Someone needs to relearn the meaning of the word 'permanent'. Sure, reading a dictionary will literally kill you, but it is strongly encouraged.
(I know what really happened here, but stop using words to mean more than the intended meaning. You should have used terminology like 'long-term', or 'appears to be the case for quite some time'.)
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Someone needs to relearn the meaning of the word 'permanent'.
Someone needs to learn the meaning of the word 'pedant'.
Sure, reading a dictionary will literally kill you, but it is strongly encouraged.
Sure, not being a pedant will literally kill you, but then people might even like you. (Unlikely, but still...)
(I know what really happened here, but stop using words to mean more than the intended meaning. You should have used terminology like 'long-term', or 'appears to be the case for quite some time'.)
Thanks, Captain Obvious! Or should we call you 'Captain Pedant' from now on?
Re:Interesting about sick time... (Score:4, Interesting)
I've been on a hybrid schedule since the pandemic started and have noticed I'm accruing unused sick days faster than I used to.
If it's an "in the office" day, I might take a sick day for a gastrointestinal issue mostly because it's the long bathroom-less commute I'm worried about - that wouldn't be a concern if I was working from home. Or, I might take a sick day because I don't want to share the bug with coworkers, even if I feel able to work - again, not a problem on telecommute days.
Even working from home, I'll still take a sick day if some bug really knocks me out, though. Sometimes I'm sick enough that I just want to sleep the whole day. Or I'll take a sick if I don't feel I can really focus on work due of a bug or a headache or whatnot.
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If it's an "in the office" day, I might take a sick day for a gastrointestinal issue
Before covid, gastrointestinal issue was, luckily, my only source of sickness but it happened at least every year. Thanks to covid, my physical contacts with coworkers has greatly reduced (2 days WFH and no more handshakes) and I haven't got this gastro shit since 2020. Reduced contamination is another reason why people take less sick days when WFH.
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Fortunately I was referring to those viruses which cause gastrointestinal issues - not any underlying recurring condition!
I'm also fortunate to have decent health insurance.
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And then going into the office and passing it around to everyone.
Pre-COVID, I went to the office when I was extremely sick - sick enough that multiple employees went to HR and HR came around and tole me to go home. And to not even bother with the sick day - just take it as a freebie.
Of course, that flu would later send me to hospital a few months later where I would be t
Re:Yes, it's a permanent shift (Score:5, Insightful)
Did you know that 64% of your list is about driving/commuting by car?
Yes, did you think I was somehow unaware of that? :) That was kind of the point, really. Commuting sucks, and most offices also suck. I have never, in 50 years of working, ever been in an office where I thought, "Damn, I love this office and wish I could spend more time here." Never, not once, and I've had some pretty nice offices. I've also never really enjoyed commuting no matter what form it took (car, bus,train, etc).
More than half you problems could be solved simply by living closer to where you work so you don't have to drive.
Sure buddy, I'll just sell my paid-off home and uproot my whole life so I can be closer to work, that's a brilliant solution. Super practical and I'm sure I'll get a great deal on a home closer to the city, right?
How about this- maybe work should come to us rather than we rearrange our lives and go though all sorts of gymnastics to be closer to the place most of us don't want to be? I realize that's not possible for everyone, but seriously?
I live my life for me, not for my employer. What if you move and a few weeks later there are layoffs? Why upend your whole life for a company who couldn't care less what sacrifices you have to make to work for them? "Gee, Bob, we know you just moved to be closer to the office, but layoffs are layoffs and your last day is tomorrow."
I'm glad you've never had to drive to work, but you're an outlier, not the norm. I mean, if you can do your work remotely, why wouldn't you? Do you really like an office environment that much?
Frankly, I've never heard a good reason for people to be in an office when they can work remotely. Can you give me a few? I'd love to hear them.
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Sure buddy, I'll just sell my paid-off home and uproot my whole life so I can be closer to work, that's a brilliant solution.
And I'm sure I can be guaranteed employment for the next 30 years while I pay off my house that I bought to be convenient to work.
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Sure buddy, I'll just sell my paid-off home and uproot my whole life so I can be closer to work, that's a brilliant solution.
And I'm sure I can be guaranteed employment for the next 30 years while I pay off my house that I bought to be convenient to work.
Exactly, because layoffs never happen, never! Also, mergers and acquisitions never happen and when they do headcounts never have to be trimmed. In fact no one has ever been laid off from a job.
So yeah, turn your life upside down and take a huge financial risk for a company that couldn't care less about you- I'm sure we'll be rewarded handsomely for it, lol.
As I said above, maybe work should come to us rather than us rearranging our lives and going though all sorts of gymnastics so we can be closer to the pl
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If you are in the U.S..... yea, you are..
"The average American commutes 41 miles a day to and from work. 76.4% of U.S. workers drive alone to work."
By the way, you also come across as smug, entitled, and lacking empathy for others.
And probably good odds you are single or well off so you don't have to care about your kid's schooling.
Even in Europe, the commute time averages 23 minutes.
I was lucky to be 2 miles from work for 3 years. It was nice. Still had to drive ( hot city, even 2 miles on a bike I'd arr
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Dumb take.
I used to live in Philadelphia working for a small (13 people) company. I was only 2 miles away and rode my bike to work. Still hated it. Still had to dodge dangerous drivers. Still had to bundle up and tried not to freeze my ass off in the winter biking through slush, ice, and mud. Of course this was an apartment where I couldn't grow anything of my own. Philly schools are garbage so definetly not an option for starting a family.
Now I have a house in the suburbs of LA with half an acre. I can gro
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Nope. I'm not an outlier. There are loads of cities around the world where it makes more sense to walk, cycle, or use public transport to get to work & many people do.
Sure, but for the majority of us that's not a viable option.
Yeah, if you have the choice & choose to live somewhere the only feasible option is to drive into work, then why complain about driving into work? You chose it.
I didn't choose it, it's really the only option for a lot of people. Way back when, it was the only option, which is why I rejoice that the times have changed.
Create walkable cities where you can find affordable housing and I'd be all in for that, but those days are long gone. Face it, things have changed.
But frankly, even if my office was close enough to walk to I'd still prefer to work remotely. Work is not the focus of my life, my life is the f
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Create walkable cities where you can find affordable housing and I'd be all in for that, but those days are long gone. Face it, things have changed.
Nope. Things haven't changed that much. There's still affordable housing in cities. Clearly, you live under unfortunate circumstances, at least travel-wise.
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Right..... affordable housing which I don't qualify for with my six figure salary.
Good luck finding a 2 bedroom apartment in LA for under 2500 that isn't a dump.
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Nope. Things haven't changed that much. There's still affordable housing in cities.
To paraphrase _0x0nyadesu below,
Right..... affordable housing which I don't qualify for with my six figure salary.
Good luck finding a 2 bedroom apartment in Seattle for under 2500 that isn't a dump.
Exactly. Have you seen the rents in Seattle?
Clearly, you live under unfortunate circumstances, at least travel-wise.
No, I think I live under very, very nice "travel circumstances", because I don't have a commute. The only time I drive anywhere is when I want to. That sounds like very fortunate circumstances travel-wise to me. :)
But anyway, according to you, we should sell our fully paid-off 2,500 square foot home* and move to a noisy, 1,200 square foot, two-bedroom apartment that will cost on average about $2,350 a month. (We'll also be at the m
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So there you are. You've clearly made your choices & specifically adopted a particular lifestyle.
Yes, and my choices mean I have no need to commute to an office and can more fully live my life. You should consider it, especially since you claim to have a family. Wouldn't you prefer to spend more time with them than in an office?
Learn to live at peace with it.
Oh, I have, Fluffy. I'm way ahead of you, there, way, way, waaaaaay ahead. You probably won't get this message until after you commute back home, or just before you commute into work, huh? lol
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I don't consider a 20 minute walk by the beach to & from work be particularly inconvenient or unpleasant.
I'm sure it's a ton of fun in the rain, snow, or heat, but I think most of us would rather spend that 20 minutes with my family or doing something that's not work-related.
But hey, you do you.
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The climate's rather pleasant 98% of the time.
No one complains when the weather is fine, it's the rest of the time it's a problem. (Or 'climate' if you prefer.)
Either way, I don't want to commute regardless of the current weather conditions, something you seem to have trouble grasping. Many of us simply DO NOT want to go to an office building, period.
I'm not sure how to make it any clearer. We don't want an external office, period. No matter what it offers or where it is, we'd prefer not to partake.
But again, you do you.
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But hey, you do you.
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I & all my colleagues & the people I work with enjoy being with each other, socialising, & working together. It's not uncommon around here.
Some of them do, probably. I bet a lot of would be just as happy if not happier at home. But there are always outliers and if you've found a like-minded group, have at it. Go into the office 7 days a week if you like, I don't have a problem with it.
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I live 10 minutes walking distance from work. And I still prefer WFH to going to the office.
It's not a matter of distance or time wasted. It's a matter of peace and quiet.
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I like not getting tickets from the 27th to the 2nd of the month.
I do not like being tailgated by crazy people.
I do not like getting into an accident once every 8 years on average, and...
I do not like being in pain for months after such an accident.
I do not like being seriously hurt or even killed in such an accident.
But but but but you get to be in an office! Isn't that worth it in the long run? (lol)
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I consider that an asset, not a drawback.
I choose my friends. I cannot choose my coworkers. Don't mix them up, you end up confused.
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Lol, you need to make that "/s" bold, as some people will undoubtedly take your comment at face value.
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Any job that could be offshored already has been a long, long time ago, long before WFH got the widespread adoption that pandemic gave it. I guess we can rest easy that if that job could have been outsourced, it would have been long ago.
Stop trying to scare us. Take your office and shove it up your ass, we don't need it.
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In the real world, WfH is infeasable.
Lol, how so?
My company of ~300,000 (yes, 300K people) is mostly remote. We have small crews in server rooms and whatnot of course, but the vast, vast majority of us work from home and it's going great. We just had a record year, in fact. So it certainly seems like it's working, but maybe all 300,000 of us are just blissfully mistaken.
Plus, with WfH, what is the difference between a set of pixels of someone working domestically versus someone working out of India? All WfH does is make offshoring easier.
If offshoring is that big of a threat to you then maybe you need to up your skills. You know, learn something useful, get better at whatever it is you do.
Also, due to various r
Slacking from home (Score:5, Funny)
Slacking from home sucks, it's much better to do it in the office where you can trade slack ideas with fellow slackers. However, WFH allows me to do important things like periodically correct you idiots on slashdot. I really feel like I am making a difference here. I think in the last election, given the fact that I had a few +3 Insightful comments on here I personally may have helped Biden increase his margin of victory by 2 to 3 votes. It would be 6 if I myself had voted instead of deal with an obvious troll.
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*4
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However, WFH allows me to do important things like periodically correct you idiots on slashdot.
I've been able to troll^Wparticipate on Slashdot just as effectively from the office as I can from home. You need to work on developing those valuable life skills, son.
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I'm not a right-winger. Just because I often oppose your straight up totalitarian communism doesn't mean I am right wing. In fact you are more "right-wing" than me given your vitriolic hatred of immigrants and zealous need to hurt people you disagree with politically (meanwhile you are pro-union and luxury living for fellow communist party members "diagnosed" with avolition mental disorder). As for me not pulling my own weight, I'm supposed to believe *YOU* do any real work given how much you post on here?
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Dude you need to get off slashdot. I see you comment multiple times on every post.
Your takes have about as much nuance as a Trump tard talking about Hunter's penis (again).
Step away from the keyboard bro. Seriously go touch grass.
Living rent free in your head (Score:2)
Also I can tell you're a trump supporter trying to role play a left winger or a centrist. The right wing never mentions Hunter's dick pics. The left wing talks about them being removed from Twitter like they should have been by terms of service. What you're doing is trying to sound like you're on the left wing by attacking Trump supporters but you're not able to actually bring up what we on the left make fun of trump supporters for because, well you'
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Hahahahaha .. first off .. I am pro Biden over Trump (reference: https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] ) or DeSantis (reference: https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] ) ..nor am I religious so I dunno where your Pat Robertson jizz stream is aimed at either (reference: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org] ) comes from so I am not sure if you got my identity mixed up with someone else. Not sure if you hallucinated or what. Maoism/Communism induced dementia or something? As for Nazi -- pretty sure you're the closest to
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Umm... ookay .. when you gonna do yo video on "why dropped the charade and came out the closet as a full blown racist and Nazi?"
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You just never quit do you. It does not matter what the thread is your post is always the same, and its always accusing right leaning people of doing what left-wingers are literally all about.
Oh gwd they're banning books (moved from middle school library to the highschool) - meanwhile we need government department inside homeland security to exercise prior restraint over Internet content!
I keep trying tell myself you are just miss guided but more and more I am forced to conclude you are just a Neocommunis
RTO was purposeful (Score:2)
To force out enough people who couldn't or wouldn't so they "wouldn't have to layoff as many" to keep corporate profits in the excessive windfall territory.
It was also a chance to cut perks and impose misery on those who stayed, to accept worse treatment.
Workers should balk or quit.
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This is pure and undiluted stupidity. Never ever get people to quit if you want to lower your workforce levels. Never. It's the worst way to get rid of workers. By some margin and then some.
So you create an undesirable work condition that your workers dislike. You also deal with an economy where talented and highly skilled workers are in short supply, not only because the boomer generation is retiring in large numbers with far fewer people filling those spots. Hell, I'm old and even my inbox is overflowing
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Given the stats posted all over the damn place that say the opposite, I have to suspect you're either being served cool-aid or you're the one serving it.
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Have you ever entertained the idea that your remote working tools and/or administration of them sucks?
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So it's likely to be highly specific to crazily micro-managed environments. I suspect if you kept trying, once the micro-management abated somewhat, productivity and morale would be way up.
Have a look at Amdahl's law. It's normally applied to parallel computing but when the bureaucracy and micro-management is heavy, it applies to people too.
An analysis of Brooks' law is also relevant here.
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First hit on Google is a summary with links galore. See it here [apollotechnical.com].
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A study? It's a page with link after link to different studies. You have to read more than the first paragraph, especially since I indicated that the links there ware the part that was of value.
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Only with a carefully calibrated cherry picker.
About 20-25 years too late, I'd say. (Score:2)
But better late than never. Time alone will prove just how much total physical illness and natural resource wasting this will eliminate, but I think it will be a lot more than most people really expect.
Not paying for office space (Score:2)
You'd think the savings of pushing the cost of providing office space off on employees would be enough to have kicked off this trend with or without the pandemic.
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You have to understand that a lot of large corporations (along with their C-Levels) have pretty heavy investments in the real estates they use, as well as some of the real estates around the premises that house restaurants and cafes. They now have a huge problem at their hand if those investments suddenly bad, stockholders will want their heads and their own money is going down the tubes as well.
That's the main force behind this RTO push. When you look closely, you'll find that it's mostly the large corpora
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Fuck open plan. Never again.
There's only one reason bosses fight this. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Well, there's that, but there is more.
Large companies often own their offices. Worse, C-Levels often have investments in the real estate around the office, renting them out to restaurants and the like. Now those CEOs not only have shareholders breathing down their necks for the plummeting real estate values of those offices, they also have to deal with their own investments failing because those restaurants close down due to a lack of customers.
Also, middle managers often know they're useless. And if they c
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It's not even that their jobs are any harder, they whine that we don't prop up their investment anymore.
I couldn't give less of a shit about their investment.
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Management often hates pushback, but the better ones eventually learn that when they're heading over a cliff, push back saves lives (or at least careers). The yes man who cheerfully helps you over the edge is not a good thing.
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I'm not too worried. C-Levels don't offshore security jobs when they're personally responsible when the shit hits the fan and they can't show they did what they could to avoid it.
And sending your security to a country that is already known to engage in industrial espionage doesn't exactly fit that bill.
Also, by now most companies already noticed that you only get crap from a company that is half a planet away, not to mention the time difference. So unless the C-Levels want to move to India, I wouldn't worry
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All this "victory" with WfH means is that more jobs get offshored to India
Citation needed? Just because something theoretically could get "outsourced" doesn't mean it actually makes sense to, or that it's "the" solution, that's not ... logical to assume as THE outcome when multiple exist, and are possible.
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I don't even care for data anymore.
Do you offer me 100% home office or not? Because the competitor offers it.
Choose!