RE: NY Times Report - A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work
03-15-2022, 01:13 PM (This post was last modified: 03-15-2022, 01:16 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
03-15-2022, 01:13 PM (This post was last modified: 03-15-2022, 01:16 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Then there's all that corporate real estate which is sitting unused and costing money. There's no one to sell it off to -- everyone else is facing the same situation -- so the only way to justify owning it and paying maintenance/heating/power/water/etc. is to force employees back into the cubes.
EDIT: As hazard noted, yes, there are some jobs that are better (or can only be) performed in the office, but that's no reason to force everyone back. My employers have acknowledged this -- our productivity is higher than it was two and a half years ago and we're not about to outgrow our office again (as we did a year or two before COVID, requiring an expansion into an adjacent, vacant unit). They like things this way.
EDIT: As hazard noted, yes, there are some jobs that are better (or can only be) performed in the office, but that's no reason to force everyone back. My employers have acknowledged this -- our productivity is higher than it was two and a half years ago and we're not about to outgrow our office again (as we did a year or two before COVID, requiring an expansion into an adjacent, vacant unit). They like things this way.
-- Bob
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....