And they account for 46% of all US wages
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272720300992
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272720300992
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+1If true, get out of commercial real estate investments in urban areas now.
My wife went from 2 days in the office to full time at home. She said she tends to get more work done at home than in the office. No people stopping by to chit chat. Now this may not be everyone but she tends to work more hours also, as she no longer has a 1hr commute. So she doesn't mind taking meetings at say 5 pm.I am WFH now and love it but not sure I would have liked it early in my career.
If true, get out of commercial real estate investments in urban areas now.
Agreed. New/young employees will suffer as I don’t believe mentoring and the passing down of knowledge/experience by senior employees is as effective when we are remote.Can be, but I think something is lost if you're 100% from home. There's a value to interacting with other employees, though I think it can be accomplished with 1 or 2 days a week in the office.
My wife went from 2 days in the office to full time at home. She said she tends to get more work done at home than in the office. No people stopping by to chit chat. Now this may not be everyone but she tends to work more hours also, as she no longer has a 1hr commute. So she doesn't mind taking meetings at say 5 pm.
However, I'm not sure I like it. I'm her only human contact most week days.(a pitfall of living amongst farms, no neighbors) So when I get home from work it's like a game of 20 questions. Before I even get a chance to answer the 1st one, she's already on question 18.
Agree with both of you.Can be, but I think something is lost if you're 100% from home. There's a value to interacting with other employees, though I think it can be accomplished with 1 or 2 days a week in the office.
Sex in the workplace sounds incredibly exciting, unless, of course, you're married and working from home...I started working in the late 70's and the social stuff for a 20 year old was huge.
Back in the day drinking and sex at the workplace were not frowned upon
I started working in the late 70's and the social stuff for a 20 year old was huge.
Back in the day drinking and sex at the workplace were not frowned upon
I started working in the late 70's and the social stuff for a 20 year old was huge.
Back in the day drinking and sex at the workplace were not frowned upon
That depends on who you are having sex with. :Sly:Sex in the workplace sounds incredibly exciting, unless, of course, you're married and working from home...
Our office of 15-18 is definitely getting more done from home, and 90% have been working together for a long time, which helps worfkflow.My wife went from 2 days in the office to full time at home. She said she tends to get more work done at home than in the office. No people stopping by to chit chat. Now this may not be everyone but she tends to work more hours also, as she no longer has a 1hr commute. So she doesn't mind taking meetings at say 5 pm.
However, I'm not sure I like it. I'm her only human contact most week days.(a pitfall of living amongst farms, no neighbors) So when I get home from work it's like a game of 20 questions. Before I even get a chance to answer the 1st one, she's already on question 18.
Damn! Welcome back to life. :)I had to commute 13 hours/week.
Since March, I have filled my fuel tank on my car once, and I currently have 3/4 of a tank of fuel.I'm honestly saving roughly 3/4 of my paycheck these days. I never realized how much money I wasted paying people to do $#it for me because I had to commute 13 hours/week. Hell, I don't need to go into the office anymore, and if my company has an issue with it, I can get a closer job for half the money and still be ahead.
Really looking forward to being back in the office 3 days a week. I only live with my girlfriend who is starting to go into work again so I basically go for over 8 hours a day without any in person socializing which surprisingly takes a bit of a mental toll on you, especially when the phone convos are all business related. I also had a 5-10 minute commute so it’s not like I’m saving tons of time at home.
But I have noticed that I become much more irritable in general if I work over 50 hours in a week in a full WFH environment when in the past I never did, and it has to do something with lack of socializing.
I am WFH now and love it but not sure I would have liked it early in my career.
Really looking forward to being back in the office 3 days a week. I only live with my girlfriend who is starting to go into work again so I basically go for over 8 hours a day without any in person socializing which surprisingly takes a bit of a mental toll on you, especially when the phone convos are all business related. I also had a 5-10 minute commute so it’s not like I’m saving tons of time at home.
But I have noticed that I become much more irritable in general if I work over 50 hours in a week in a full WFH environment when in the past I never did, and it has to do something with lack of socializing.
I am WFH now and love it but not sure I would have liked it early in my career.
The companies within a year or two of their leases running out will prepare to downsize and cancel. Others will consolidate their footprint, which will still save some money. The commercial real estate market is in for some dark years.And what will companies do with all their 7-10 year leases for commercial office space? Just eat it. Sub-lease it. Use it for storage.
People will be returning to their leased offices when things get back to normal. I've been working from home since March and the cabin fever ,can drive you nuts....wait until winter when you are inside for 23 hours a day.
My job is mostly WFH and with a Cali HQ, I was hired to me a remote employee. With that said, there is something lost by not having coworkers nearby at times. There have been many times that when in the office, two of us may be discussing a situation we may be facing with a prospect or client, or maybe with legal with T& C's. And by talking, someone else may overhear your problem and be able to join the conversation and add in how they had the same problem and how they solutioned it. And many other brainstorming type of conversations that came about around the water cooler. And Zoom meetings for a first call with a prospect just sucks...just sayingI love working from home, and our office has not missed a beat. That said, if we hadn't already been working together for years it might have been different. If I started a new job and was remote it would also be different.
There are things I know, and ideas I have brought to the company that came from interacting with people in other areas, people I would not generally talk to on a day-today basis. In fact, most of my job is now taken up by things that were outside of my original scope, because I saw what someone else was doing and added to it, or pitched an idea where I saw a gap.
Can I do my job 100% remote? Obviously. Would I be adding the same type of value, and bring the same new ideas? Nope, not without a baseline of overlap/interaction with people that only comes from being around them, overhearing conversations and just catching up.
Synergy is a crappy buzzword, but it's also a real thing. When you're completely siloed, as we mostly are from home, you do lose something.