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Post by madm002 on Sept 17, 2024 9:31:01 GMT -5
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Post by ferris1248 on Sept 17, 2024 10:07:10 GMT -5
Comments are pretty funny. Especially the negative ones. Talk about entitled perceptions.
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Post by drivinmike on Sept 17, 2024 10:14:11 GMT -5
Interesting article. Something has to change in the office space environment. The number of empty or mostly empty work spaces is unbelievable. I can only imagine what it does to the small Mom and Pop business's that run the restaurants etc that need people in seats to survive. I think it's a ticking time bomb
that may already be too late to turn around before it does serious, lasting damage to the economy.
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Post by richm on Sept 17, 2024 10:16:19 GMT -5
I love it - the young folks here want to work from home. Some actually do, the others goof off and miss deadlines. Pretty easy to see who works from home and who doesn't.
What I hate is having a question and walking over to any given person's office (I'm deaf - i need face to face conversation) and they aren't there to answer the question. We have a couple part timers and folks walk by to see them, then they walk back with a defunct look on the face cause their work just stopped cause PT guy or gal aint there to facilitate the work process.
I won't hire a PT or someone who wants to work from home. I need someone here 8-5 and possibly more - "gets lonely" around here on the weekends without anyone else here.
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Post by madm002 on Sept 17, 2024 11:06:18 GMT -5
Comments are pretty funny. Especially the negative ones. Talk about entitled perceptions.
They will learn...the hard way |
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Post by misterjr on Sept 17, 2024 11:35:49 GMT -5
My GF works for a large international company and was recently called back to the office after working from home since COVID-19. She's ok with it since she is retiring on 12/31/2024.
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Post by johngalt on Sept 17, 2024 12:06:32 GMT -5
Working at home??
Must be nice. 🤔
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Post by swampdog on Sept 17, 2024 12:21:54 GMT -5
There’s pros and cons to both.
Pros: The great employee will appreciate the working from home to the point they put in more hours and take calls anytime.
Working from home gets more commuters off the road. Reduces fuel consumption and saves the employee time and can result in a reduction in insurance rates if the car is driven less.
Working from home can result in smaller and cheaper work space for the company.
Cons:The poor employee is a goof off at the office and at home. It’s a simple matter that if they miss deadlines they are required to come to the office for a period of time.
The office internal network can suffer.
One thing that does take a hit is the office rental space. Companies build these buildings to lease out. Reduce the office staff by a significant percentage and a space can set empty. This can result in a call to the elected officials resulting in some campaign contributions that result in the official requiring the workers to return to the compound.
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Post by ferris1248 on Sept 17, 2024 12:58:22 GMT -5
Working at home?? Must be nice. 🤔 I've never met an OTR guy yet who would be happy sitting at desk, home or not. |
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Post by tonyroma on Sept 17, 2024 13:07:03 GMT -5
Work from home!! Be drunk before the Price is Right came on.
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Post by nuevowavo on Sept 17, 2024 13:26:08 GMT -5
My nephew is a fairly senior guy at Amazon. His team is scattered all over the country. He bought a house a little over an hour from Austin, TX (when there's no traffic) at the start of the pandemic and worked from home. Then Amazon required 3 days a week in an office, so he sold that house and bought one closer to Austin, where there's an office he could work out of. He has no business interaction with anyone in that office.
His brother worked as an Amazon technical writer from his home in Ithaca, NY. Strictly a solo mission. Then Amazon demanded 3 days a week in an office, the nearest to Ithaca being in NYC, 4 hours away. He had to quit.
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Post by ferris1248 on Sept 17, 2024 14:34:39 GMT -5
There will be some churn with this decision but I think Amazon's peers will follow suit now that they broke the ice.
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Post by stc1993 on Sept 17, 2024 14:53:32 GMT -5
They must be a huge company to layoff 27,000 people and still operate.
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Post by gardawg on Sept 17, 2024 14:57:53 GMT -5
I used to work from home. It was called farming.
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Post by JS84 on Sept 17, 2024 15:04:50 GMT -5
My wife is the international AR manager for a telecom company comparable to Verizon. I also work for the same company in various ways as a consultant. Since 4/2019 we've been working remotely. I do at times have to make site visits to locations in North America but most of my work is from my home. It works out great around hunting season as I can work remotely from the farm too. Globally, we've closed most offices with a 75% remote workforce consisting of just over 55k employees.
I should add this is not the norm for most and we are both very fortunate.
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