People who refused to go back to the office and lost their jobs
I hope this is generational thing. The traffic and travel is really unnecessary for most knowledge work.
I don't care about the productivity conversation, it's just logistically dumb and if there's a cost in making fewer widgets for getting rid of traffic than so be it. Dangerous, expensive, time and space consuming... It's a huge collective toll on society that robs us of quality of life and many thousands of hours.
We just shouldn't be doing it in the same way we don't toss the contents of chamber pots into the street anymore. Let's embrace the modern era.
Mandating daily travel unless it's genuinely needed to do the job is really unjustifiable.
I polled my network of about 30 people in tech to get a rough idea of who preferred hybrid vs. in-office. Almost all managers of people wanted it to be in-office. Not even hybrid. Bad survey, but still.
I'm entirely willing to reskill over this, tbh. Already played my hand once, WFH or I'm out. Will do it again
I was way productive at home, but often times I felt work from home was actually too intense and it was easier to go into work.
But here was always my problem, it is really hard to differentiate between the smart slackers at home and the hard working ones. And more than once, I was burned by really smart people who wanted to use their super powers to slack off.
Next: People who went back to the office and still lost their jobs. Film at 11.
It's the overemployment fraud. People have become too good at it. I bet most who work from home now, practice it and some make huge amounts of money by basically defrauding their multiple employers. Companies naturally want to put a definite end to this.
I’m so happy the wfh trend has ended. People don’t do good work from home, and all my friends who were into it liked it because it let them work less and/or work two jobs.