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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I honestly doubt this will move the needle much on working from home. There's a narrative out there that the reason companies haven't gotten onboard with remote work in the past is owners and managers are old-fashioned and irrational. But the reason is more basic - it's simply less efficient. Especially in any kind of collaborative field. Remote meetings suck. A lot of people get distracted at home. And most people work better when they know and like their colleagues.
We'll probably see greater allowance for people to work from home if they have a sick kid or have appointments at home. But the introvert dream of never have to go into the office is not going to be realized once we emerge from this pandemic.
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I disagree. Obviously it depends on the workplace but I have seen lots of employees told "you can't work from home" because their manager simply doesn't trust or believe that work can be done efficiently from home.
At a lot of companies those managers have been proven wrong. That doesn't mean that those managers won't still be old fashioned, but employees probably won't buy the argument that they can't get their work done from home because they've already demonstrated they could!
But that said, yes, people will still have to go to offices for certain tasks or days and it's not going to be 100% work from home.