Which would be a good thing for almost everyone I think. More time to spend with family, less automobile accidents, less pollution, smaller commutes, smaller corporate offices, etc. Hell, it might even solve the fucking housing crisis that we have.

Been wfh for a while

Absolutely. But it would make it harder for managers to control their underlings, and it might cause lower consumption levels. Less people buying cars, less people going to restaurants, white-collar workers buying less suits, less people going to bars after work, etc.

And, which might be the more critical point: it would heavily magnify the divide between privileged professionals and paper pushers on the one side and the underprivileged working-class and service-industry folks on the other side. More WFH would, on aggregate, still be a big plus for society, but it wouldnt come without explosive social side effects.

Will never happen in our lifetime here in America. We're too in love with some bullshit narrative that what it means to a contributing, functioning member of society is to report to a place of work for at least 40 hours/week in order to make other people a lot of money.

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This post was edited by excellence on Mar 27 2020 05:40pm

I've felt it's the opposite, at least from what I've seen in finance. 3 weeks ago all of PwC started WFH, even those on active audits.

Simple things like bigger companies having far more laptops than desktops also makes a huge difference. Having proper IT departments that can facilitate WFH by configuring your VPN, etc.

This post was edited by dro94 on Mar 27 2020 06:17pm

as of this week, pretty much homebound
vastly prefer working from my office
but it's nbd i guess

A lot of tech companies offer remote only options. Ultimately, if a business finds that it's MORE productive with WFH policies, then why WOULDN'T they do it. Obviously not every industry can do this, but you're right that it would fundamentally change the dynamics of society (haves vs. have nots, cars, food courts, etc.)



I don't think a lot of people think that but I live in California and have no idea what work is like on the East coast, South, etc.

I also live in California, but we run in very different political circles.

I was given the option to work from home a couple weeks ago but there really isn’t that big of a risk bc I stay in my office and isolated. You don’t have that option in the poll 🤔