Meanwhile, these same companies forcing people back to the office champion themselves as being “green”, conveniently shifting the cost of pollution to their employees, as though commuting is a personal decision.
30%+ of all microplastics in the environment are from car tyres.
People can just choose not to work, it’s not like they need money for food, shelter, etc.
I’m sure this is great for productivity and emissions and the health of our population…
All to try and prop up private businesses, pathetic.
Hello friends and welcome back. In part two of our show, we’ll give the microphone to our soon-to-be-tazered economist to tell us about the efficiency of the free market.
Thanks Jennifer. Wait, what?
RTO is such bullshit move.
I love working from home.
Even before Covid I worked remotely 1-2 days a week because it’s more productive.
The modern workplace with open offices is not suitable to keeping a ton of reference books and doing deep work.
Reference books? Are still a thing? I thought everything was digitized.
Most of my textbooks are not digital, and they’re filled with post it notes and tabs.
Digital is okay, I’ve got a ton of digital books but they don’t trigger my memory as well.
Uni textbooks are a racket, not a shelf of professional reference material for the workplace.
Most of my textbooks are legit reference texts, which I do pull out and use as references frequently.
It helps a lot when you have to catch up on a topic you haven’t looked at in 5 years. They also help when I’m trying to teach myself a new topic that wasn’t taught in university.
During COVID springer made a lot of their collection free to download so I pulled a ton of digital texts too.
It depends on what the books are and what the reference material is. I’m an accountant, and anything like tax/compliance & standards related is usually digital because of how fast and often it changes. But I still have what you would call textbooks that I reference pretty often. Mostly my Treasury book, or when I’m trying to find a formula for a specific application. Hell I’ve even been guilty of digging back through my books from my articling period, to find something specific from time to time.
I work on a farm, so I don’t have the option to work from home, but my god people who can should be allowed. I keep seeing people say “waaaaah I can’t work from home so why should THEY be allowed to?!?!?!” and I hate that argument.
It still benefits you! Less traffic on your way to work.
Aren’t farmers often working at home?
The ones who own them, sure, and they do often have housing available. Farms also employ a lot of people who don’t live on the properties.
Living the western dream, driving. I’m also stuck in a metal death trap for long periods of time every day. #fuckcars
I predict over the next decade a lot of people are going to start flipping the script on these employers. Now that this genie is out of the bottle, it’s going to be pretty hard to cork it again. Maybe for a bit, but it’ll soon boil over. I mean some of this RTO is really just poorly disguised layoffs that the PR department doesn’t want getting out. Or it’s about control at the micro level. That’s going to get figured out pretty fast.
Either way, smarter companies are going to use balanced WFH as a recruitment tactic (that could literally save them money), and I also predict the numbers are soon going to reflect that the next couple of years aren’t as profitable for these guys that are dictating five days a week in the office, and their people are going to be far less satisfied. Might get away with it for a bit if the economy slows down, I dunno, it’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Work in Montréal, live in suburbia, 20 years ago it was a 30 minutes commute, before covid it was 60-80 minutes, worst if snow storm, traffic jam is worst year after year. As a programmer, working from home is perfect, there is no change for me working in the office or at home, especially when I work for companies in BC, USA, Spain, name it.
Commuting does not make sense for some jobs where you are in front of your screen on the phone or Teams 8h a day.
I know someone who during covid found a remote job, and the company now has a 2 days in office mandatory, it takes the guy 2h the morning and 2h the evening to go there, it is insane…
Less traffic means statistically, fewer accidents, right? Fewer accidents means fewer deaths. So these companies just want us dead.
Nope, not at all. They are entirely indifferent to whether we live or die, as long as line goes up. Real estate prices falling from remote work means line goes down ever so slightly.
