‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows

Great news for disabled people. Gives us a much better chance at finding a job willing to hire us!

I started a new position in my company in February 2020, just weeks before the lock down. Since then I've been almost entirely working from home, coming into the office maybe 10 days over the past 4 years.

During that time I've been promoted, gotten a separate pay raise to a new band, helped onboard the entire rest of my team (two of whom are completely remote).

I've done nothing but prove over and over again that I am excelling at my job remotely.

They are still pushing for me to come back to a "hybrid" 3 day a week schedule. Madness.

And yet my company is forcing me back into the office, I've been resisting for over a year, and now they're threatening hr->path to firing for insubordination if I don't come in... I've been working remotely effectively since March 2020.

Started sending out applications to actual remote jobs, it just sucks, it was a good gig while it lasted.

I'm curious how this impacts decentralization in terms of population density.

You could cure traffic congestion, repopulate rural communities with less conservative folk, and generally improve overall life satisfaction if more jobs became remote and access to high speed internet in rural communities became more common.

Would arguably reduce housing costs on average?

Wait a moment....

"Work from home is here to stay, US data shows"

"Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O"

We should fine companies who don't do work from home when they could be. It's safer for employees and better for the planet.

I think it’s really fucking sad that people get dressed in nice clothes every morning (with makeup for some), and commute 1-2 hours to eat a stale or costly lunch and maybe shit in a public toilet to 1) write Jira tickets, 2) sit on zoom meetings, or 3) white board some bullshit that will immediately become irrelevant in crunch time and then retreat home like zombies to repeat it all over again.

Have some dignity, work from home, unless your job actually requires physical presence (like nursing, teaching, mechanical etc.).

Edit if want to socialize, actually socialize instead of making it about work. Work is not socializing (for many), don’t force it.

From someone who willingly goes into the office almost every day, it's still quite obvious that for the good of the world, the less people going in overall, the better. Better for the environment, disabled people, mental health, and I imagine better for housing markets (though I'm no economist).

Working at home is so much better than having to go to the office. I am so glad more people get to continue this fantastic life style.

WFH is supports the very policies that the government wants, less pollution less traffic more mental health. Unfortunately the business lobbies want us scurrying around like rats again because you know. Profits. Cats out of the bag now, no going back.

In 2017 when I started working hybrid (3 days/week) my quality of life IMMEDIATELY improved. In 2022 when my then employer wanted everyone in the office full-time regardless of hiring or the pandemic, I gave it an honest 6 months.

After that I left and went out on my own. There's no way I'm going to allow my life to be run by others like that again. Wish I had learned this at 20 not 50.

It is? Then why can't I find a single work from home job that isn't a fake listing?

Thank fuck

The big companies fighting it and also laying off hundreds of thousands of skilled workers are in for a wakeup call in the coming decade or two. Especially given that they're more prime targets for cyber attacks.

Something something invisible hand.

It’s stable for now. My company has been getting people back into the office through several attempts. They haven’t given up, and they made sure to make that clear, just a work in progress.

I 💯 support work from home and understand it's benefits ... but at the same time, when I work from home I find myself way more depressed and less connected than when I go into the office. I enjoy my work and like my coworkers, which I know is not the case for everyone. I wish that affordable housing was pushed as a way to promote working in the office, rather than just banning WFH. It's nice to have the choice, people should be able to afford to live near their work.

The fuck it is lol - almost everyone I know, who works for a large corporation in a major metropolitan area is being forced back into a hybrid role. I went from completely wfh in March of 2020 to 4 days in office since the beginning of the year (NYC). I feel like there’s a sunk cost fallacy going on with the long 20-30 year leases a lot of these companies signed for in the 2010s

I keep coming back to how it's beneficial for the corporate overlords financially to not have to have massive offices, overheads, and all those in office perks. This keeps me believing WFH is the future.

Optionality is key, that's what I'm worried about losing in the next market downturn. Letting people work from home is great.

Forcing people to work from home to save on office real estate costs, preferences older and wealthier workers who don't need to build work relationships and can afford a home with an office.

Good for the people who want it. I just can't imagine wanting my work so close to my personal space.

"We want to work from home."

Okay cool, so we might as well hire people from india then.

I disagree completely. I think people can do some work remotely but cannot be remote all the time unfortunately. Else nobody in the company would know them and so interaction would decrease substantially over time after an initial introduction. So unless they do payroll or something where they need minimal interaction, they can't stay at home. My neighbor works from home all the time so I'll keep an eye out for when and if he transitions back. However, I'm loving the minimal traffic accidents and reduced traffic. So please please keep demanding work from home! Even I want to work from home every now and then.