re: Making people work mobile due to the coronavirus will show how little we do

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I’m the type of person that needs interaction with people on a pretty regular basis, so even if i was just as productive working from home, i would go stir crazy from the isolation if I were to work from home full time.

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I'm great with isolation but everyone does need some social interaction. I get mine by going into the office once a week and the rest of the week I have a very social gym experience at lunchtime (crossfit). I stay quite satisfied socially and generally don't get very cabin-feverish unless I have to miss going into the office a couple of weeks because I'm sick or have too many customer meetings or some such thing.

Colleges going Online only will show how useless and overpriced they are.

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do you think you're going to earn the same salary if you work from home 30 hours/wk?

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Yes, professional jobs pay employees for what they produce, they are not punching a clock and paid by the hour.

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As long as your work has defined deadlines, it's relatively easy to stay on track while working from home.

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Agree. I couldn’t have worked from home at previous jobs because I was basically paid to be a warm body, but I work from home plenty now because the work is defined and clients would suffer if it didn’t get done.

There’s a lot of BS admin employees out there that do little to nothing (I know because I was one in my first job), so will be interesting to see this play out.

My ideal situation is about a 50/50 split of office and remote work. Say, work from home on Mondays and Fridays, and in the office Tuesday through Thursday. I've done exclusive work from home, though it was a temporary situation, and it wasn't for me. 5 days of daily commuting is also a huge drag. I love when I work from home now, but it's only once or twice a month. Kids are out the door by 6:45, and I hit the ground running and work my arse off until lunch. 9 times out of 10, I have all my work wrapped up by then, and have the afternoon to do some home tasks, or menial office work I've fallen behind on.

I keep waiting for the email to work remote for a few weeks. Then again we work remote pretty freely in our group.

I work in Banking technology - Software/Hardware install and support.

Makes sense.

I’d have to take even more drastic measures if I worked from home full time just to avoid cabin fever.

It’s crazy because I hate my commute, office and most coworkers, but despite all that I still like, or at least don’t mind, going into the office at least a couple days a week.