Work from home, not no more

[speck1]

I never stopped going to work(Dentist). It seems like half the dentistry employee field still won’t return to work.

[Goldeneagle]

Never stopped going in, I was ESSENTIAL!

Traffic was better for a while anyway.

Traffic was allsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ColinR]

We worked from home for about 6 weeks at the beginning of Covid but still traveled to projects during that time as needed.

[ColinR]

I never stopped going to work(Dentist). It seems like half the dentistry employee field still won’t return to work.

How does that even work? How do they clean and work on peoples teeth from home?

[Samson]

My boss announced that I would be working from home long before the Rona hit.

Last I checked (about 15 minutes ago) my best employee was still sitting at home on his couch, surfing the internet, and cashing his checks.

I work with lots of lawyers, most are refusing to return to the office.

We do our depositions by Zoom, and send our invoices from our home offices.

The saying "Only the lawyers win" needs to change to " Only the Lawyers and their Experts win"

[Slew]

All you fools need to go back to the office! I’m tired of the lakes being crowded on the weekdays!!

[Rubi513]

Never stopped going to the office

Same here.
We did go from 7-5 to 7-4…
Not sure what the point of that was, but I am not complaining.

[Cberry]

My last job shut the office down for a few weeks but I still had to make site visits a couple times a week, I wasn't a fan of working from home as I like to have structure and routine from waking up and going to a separate place for work and being able to come home and get away from work, kind of. I didn't like having to hurt my kids' feelings either when they wanted to hang out and play and I had to tell them no or take calls and make them be quiet while I was on phone calls. Plus I would get distracted with chores around the house as well.

[Dusty Britches]

We were mandated back to the office June of 2021, no work from home until December 2022 unless you had kids that were out of school for a day or two during the school year. I didn't think that was fair, but it happened.

The most aggravating part about 2021 was while we were working in the office, we were required to meet virtually via Zoom or Web Ex or MS Teams. No in person meetings allowed. It was plain stupid.

Now we were allowed to work from home 4 days a month, but that is it.

[HoustonHunter94]

Been home since March of 2020. Invested in a nice home office set up and we closed our physical office in 2021 saving about 10K a month in rent. Oddly enough that same company demanded that everyone be vaccinated even though we did not even have an office to go into. Told them to kick rocks and got another job and work 100% remotely still. For what I do, I can't imagine going back into an office fulltime ever again. I do miss some of the back and forth and learning potential of being in a group setting but the pros outweigh the cons to me.

[Goldeneagle]

I couldn't imagine not coming into the shop every day. These guy's are like family to me. I love my real family to death, but being home full time would drive me crazy I'm afraid. That's my main concern with retiring.

[Chew]

My new post-retirement job is about 99% work from home. I travel to Houston/SA/Miscellaneous rarely. I wasn't sure I'd like it...but it's been great. I can walk outside and chitchat with the workers building my home, go talk to my chickens, rabbits, quail, have coffee and lunch with my wife, go shoot a hog when the camera goes off.

Commuting and traffic and arsehole people can go fornicate thyselves.

[DEREKG22]

Forced back into the office tues, wed, and thursdays. Mon and Fri at home with zoom meeting scheduled each week to bird dog and ensure we arent in the woods or on the bay. They are prolly just easing us into the fact that we will be there 5 days a week one day again soon.

[rebelbow]

All you fools need to go back to the office! I’m tired of the lakes being crowded on the weekdays!!

agreed!

[Todd P]

If remote is the future, why can’t it be remote from anywhere by anybody? Companies aren’t stupid and they will figure out it’s cheaper to hire outside the US.
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In IT for 25+ yrs. and IT has been global a lot longer than people know. Customer service has been offshore for a decade or longer.

I have been remote since March 2020, but Hybrid for years before and I am more productive at home. More production, meaning less 1 off meetings for no reason, can stay focused better and I can keep more current with the personal side as well, ie. I help out more.

Also would agree remote is the future, MikeD is correct the job candidate market got a whole LOT bigger as the global market grows and a lot cheaper, till they figure it out. Since 2016 I have been in the global market, I was competing with the Global for my jobs. It was mostly US companies but 99% of the people I worked with in those companies, were outside of the US. India, Argentina, Asia etc.

Now is remote work for most, no, they don't have the focus or the drive to do it, but for some of us, its all we will do going forward. Is it easier to find a low producer working remote, Dang Skippy, its blatantly obvious but mgmt is usually doing it as well so nothing gets done about.

Todd