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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I won't disagree that many jobs can now be completed remotely and that the pandemic proved that out. That all said for the life of me I can't see why most white collar workers would be pushing so hard against ever going into the office. The natural reaction is to accelerate automation and offshore more white collar work. In the long run I hope the people clamoring and making it difficult to go back to the office have a retirement plan they plan to enact before the decade closes out, because their job won't be done for Calgary salaries or even in Calgary much longer.
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100%. Be careful what you wish for. Why should your employer pay you say $100k a year to do work when they could hire someone with the same skillset elsewhere for say $50k/year?
I'm also fully prepared to hear about how I'm a dinosaur and "boomer" (I'm not, but whatever). The truth is there is a lot of value to working with other people and exchanging ideas and information. One of the annoying things about WFH is how every conversation becomes a meeting. What was once "hey, did you hear about this?" or simple little conversations just don't happen when you work in isolation. It does depend on what you do and how you operate, but in some businesses, that's enormously valuable.
And don't even get me started on the inefficacy of Zoom/Teams for a board/committee meeting. It's a stop-gap that works when there is no better option...but the better option is a face-to-face.