re: The Dark Downside Of The Work-From-Home Trend

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Nobody is asking people how much their house costs. All they are asking for is an accurate address.

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Tomato tomato.

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The “severe ramifications” mentioned by Zuckerberg are for people who lie about where they are living.

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I don't care what the reason is, if I'm not doing anything illegal then I won't take too kindly to anyone threatening "severe ramifications" for anything.

Just tell me that due to changes in the market and hiring opportunities, you want to pay me less or let me go. Either I take the pay cut or I don't. Threats from ownership or management about "ramifications" reek of entitlement and desperation.

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His family will still have a better quality of life.

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Debatable

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There is little discussion around the dark side to this trend. For instance, VMware—a California-based publicly traded software company that provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services— announced that employees who work remotely will get a pay cut if they move out of Silicon Valley to live in less-costly cities. 

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This will happen in industries where there is a glut of qualified workers. If a company does this in an industry with a tight market, they will soon find themselves with an exodus. Which will require them to raise salaries to bring in people.

Ernst and Young was trying to open up basically a "secretaries office" for admin assistants. The office would be located in NOLA but all the people there would work for execs in other cities. They were doing this because it was cheaper to hire admin assistants in NOLA than in say, NYC, and with tech, it didn't matter that a firm exec, located in NYC, had an admin assistant who was in NOLA.

I don't know if they ever went through with this plan. But this was pre-COVID.

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Random work from home scenario:

If you get hurt at home while working remotely, are you eligible for a Worker’s Comp claim?

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I'll go one better. You are working from home. A robber breaks into your house. You shoot him. He doesn't die.

His attorney finds out you were working from home at the time. He sues your employer. What then?

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Let’s say that the company is leasing a large six-story office building in a high rent area like Silicon Valley. If they have everyone go remote, they can vacate that space at the end of their lease

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Very few, if any, large companies are going to go fully remote. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc all currently have anticipated back to the office dates. People are significantly overstating the long term remote work situation.

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Very few, if any, large companies are going to go fully remote. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc all currently have anticipated back to the office dates

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We’ll see. Bottom line always wins. If they bring people back into the office, it only means they weren’t efficient working remote.