You can't make me come to work - I wanna work from home.

[Mik]

It’s not like they will be underpaid, but pay rates have always varied based on geographic area. As Horace said, a lame stab at evil corporate America. The comparison to Hong Kong vs the rest of China is ridiculous.

[Loki]

In our next recession it’s going to be very funny to watch so many employees suddenly try to get back to the office.

[Doctor Phibes]

Cutting pay in this manner is a pretty stupid move from the perspective of employee morale, unless they can demonstrate that working from home negatively impacts performance or profitability.

It's like cutting pension benefits - if you want to do it, you do it for new employees coming in, you don't touch the existing folks.

[Jolly]

@loki said in You can't make me come to work - I wanna work from home.:

In our next recession it’s going to be very funny to watch so many employees suddenly try to get back to the office.

Yeah, but will there be an office to get back to?

[Axtremus]

It takes money to operate and maintain offices. Rent or real estate taxes, utilities, physical security, custodial services, landscaping, new coat of paint and new carpets every few years, repaying the driveway and parking lots every few years, etc., all these cost money. Through this pandemic there have got to be employers who figured out that they can actually save money by reducing their use of office spaces.

Sure there are many jobs that can only be done on-site. But many “office jobs” can be done remotely just fine.

[Copper]

We are lucky there are any jobs after the IDIOTS!!! shut down the economy.

[Jolly]

I had a short stint working in the financial services sector. I was told that I was the best the company had ever had in my territory and earned the highest possible bonus each year I worked for the company. It was certainly not because I was any type of genius with money - far from it. And I had a heckuva time remembering names, which is an awful trait to have in any service business.

I did well, because I went out and talked to people. There is something about face to face contact that cannot be duplicated electronically. It just can't.

And that's not just true for clients, it's true for everyday work interactions between workers.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in You can't make me come to work - I wanna work from home.:

I did well, because I went out and talked to people. There is something about face to face contact that cannot be duplicated electronically. It just can't.

Not every job is like that. Far from it.

[jodi]

@jolly said in You can't make me come to work - I wanna work from home.:

I did well, because I went out and talked to people. There is something about face to face contact that cannot be duplicated electronically. It just can't.

And that's not just true for clients, it's true for everyday work interactions between workers.

This. My son is thrilled to be back in the office after so many months zooming from home (he is single and it was very isolating).

[Axtremus]

@jodi said in You can't make me come to work - I wanna work from home.:

My son is thrilled to be back in the office after so many months zooming from home (he is single and it was very isolating).

That may be a correlation a person’s domestic living condition and his eagerness to return to the office. I can imagine people who live alone wanting to go back to the office for social interactions, as well as people living in crowded small spaces eager to go back to the office as an escape for more breathing room.

[jodi]

@axtremus if also has to do with the blurring of home/work, relax/stress. He does better when there is a distinct line, a separation, so he can truly decompress after a work day. When both work and home take place in the same space, that is difficult.