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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Very, very few companies are going to transition to 100 per cent work from home model. Business leaders and analysts say working from home has caused serious problems, and most employees say they want to go back to working in the office.
So what we’ll be looking at going forward is flexible option to work from home one or two days a week. Which is why don’t I understand people moving to rural communities. If you’re still going into the office three days a week, how practical is it to live 70 km outside the city?
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It does depend a lot on what industry you work for. For example, my brother is a programmer. He was already working remotely, and this was the nail in the coffin for the rest of his office. He has a production based job where productivity is easily measured based on what you actually produce. The customer interaction part of the business was not handled by programmers.
I know from talking to lots of other people that WFH has been an absolute disaster for many admin based jobs. Where someone's whole job is to send out an email or prepare a document in X amount of time, it becomes impossible to ensure that person is working when they can't be physically communicated with and monitored. Most law office, for example, remained open during the pandemic. There were periods where the staff was in 2-3 days/week, but any extended period of having people entirely WFH saw a total collapse in productivity.