Society/Culture Working from home vs forced back to the office

[Scotland]

Flexibility is doing something both ways. Give and take.

A company asking someone to work from the office full time and an employee asking to WFH full time are both not flexible.

Saying i dont think WFH 100% is going to be way the of the future is not getting defensive guy. It's just an opinion. I dont really care what other people do with their lives. It's their business. not mine. If people want to WFH full time good on them, i hope they find an employer who provides it.

You are literally just calling someone defensive because they disagree with you. You are allowed to have different opinions. I have once said people shouldn't be allowed to WFH?

I work for who i want to work for, you and others should do the same.

I am OK with 100% WFH or 0% WFH. But all parties need to be realistic. If I'm paying for office space and IT equipment and industrial air con running costs etc I don't really want to hear that people 'feel like' WFH. But if I am commuting an hour each way 5 days a week and making no allowances at home (WFH setup) I also don't want to be sent to WFH because it suits the company.

Until Covid hit I had a desk in an office with a desktop computer and didn't WFH at all. Didn't really even cross my mind. Go to work to work, come home and enjoy my own space. In the 4 years since I've exclusively had laptops and have WFH at various times for various reasons. I now do it maybe once a week on average which is more personal preference than anything. Each to their own but I find if I do it too much it encroaches on my home life. There is definitely more of an expectation among people now that they can WFH at least some of the time. Some of that is generational (separate topic) but also I work with some people who are mid 20s and don't know anything other than WFH being commonplace.

WFH is definitely a key aspect now in applying for jobs and hiring staff.

 

[burge13]

Spotify keeps remote workforce siting "our employees are not children"

Perfect attitude towards it, trust

 

[peetoo]

It’s also disingenuous to force people to occupy a hot desk, but then interact with everyone via PC as if they were at home

 

[rank and file]

Don't know if it's been covered,but Kiwi mining billionare Chris Ellison weighed in on the subject
Currently under investigation from the ATO.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...eral-resources-billionaire-mining-boss-ntwnfb

 

[peetoo]

In most cases these organisations doing the ‘all back to the office’ when examined, nothing really changed, it’s just PR

 

[peetoo]

Benefits from global economy taking fees dollars out of the countries where his licence taxi drivers work.

Arcs up when employees leverage the global economy

Bolt CEO vows to crack down on ‘insanity of people working from Bali’

Bolt CEO Markus Villig reportedly said it was a “disgrace” that less than half his workers were making it into the office at least two days a week.

fortune.com

 

[burge13]

I should be CEO of some global bullshit management coaching company. Called this from the beginning

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/annoying-reason-bosses-are-actually-pushing-for-an-end-to-wfh/news-story/e519c2b25b7601b1e94dde1f2449c401

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

Wonder how long it will be before more employees start taking the piss for worker’s compensation that happens at home:

City employee granted workers' comp after injury working at home

Worker trips, falls while ‘taking authorized paid coffee break’

www.hcamag.com

While it must be extremely convenient to work from home, I reckon office people should be wary about AI taking over their jobs. How many years until advanced AI can solve complex problems, and the engineer that’s enjoyed working from home is suddenly out of a job? At least if you attend meetings and get things done in person you won’t be so easily replaced when AI really takes off.

 

[burge13]

Wonder how long it will be before more employees start taking the piss for worker’s compensation that happens at home:

City employee granted workers' comp after injury working at home

Worker trips, falls while ‘taking authorized paid coffee break’

www.hcamag.com

While it must be extremely convenient to work from home, I reckon office people should be wary about AI taking over their jobs. How many years until advanced AI can solve complex problems, and the engineer that’s enjoyed working from home is suddenly out of a job? At least if you attend meetings and get things done in person you won’t be so easily replaced when AI really takes off.

would have been some BS like not doing an ergonomics assessment (which everyone just signs and does nothing with) prior to WFH.

Shits me to tears in society that your first thought after tripping over is to sue someone. madness

AI is going to take alot of jobs. IR, accounting, data/analysis. The faff will go first* which will be a good sign of where we're headed. I dont know much about conveyancing but strikes me as something to automate, such a waste of money after every house sale

* By first, I mean after the obvious first level customer service/entry level jobs which are already being automated

 

[peetoo]

Wonder how long it will be before more employees start taking the piss for worker’s compensation that happens at home:

City employee granted workers' comp after injury working at home

Worker trips, falls while ‘taking authorized paid coffee break’

www.hcamag.com

While it must be extremely convenient to work from home, I reckon office people should be wary about AI taking over their jobs. How many years until advanced AI can solve complex problems, and the engineer that’s enjoyed working from home is suddenly out of a job? At least if you attend meetings and get things done in person you won’t be so easily replaced when AI really takes off.

So they keep saying . My experience of IT management is it gets more and more labor intensive.

Just roll this in in 2 years when I retire. It management should be the first thing run by AI