re: Will Covid-19 finally change the work from home paradigm?

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Working from home isn't all it's cracked up to be. I do it 1-2 days per week and I get cabin fever being in my house for work, sleep, etc. I would not want to work full-time from home.

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Working from home doesn’t mean you have to work “at home”

They have these amazing things called laptops that are portable computers. You can take them with you and do your work elsewhere.

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Working from home doesn’t mean you have to work “at home”

They have these amazing things called laptops that are portable computers. You can take them with you and do your work elsewhere.

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I need two huge monitors for the work I do on my computer.

I could do this I guess:

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It seems that lots of people still latch into the antiquated notion that working from home is less efficient. Many studies show that this isn't true and in some cases increases efficiency.

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Well, it is inefficient...for the employee. Those same studies will show you that the average work hours increase for those that work from home, thus their "hourly" rate drops significantly from that of their 8-5 counterpart.

The trade-off used to be "hey, I'm working from home...so I can run a few errands, chill out at Starbucks for a couple of hours and work, etc.". Then office efficiency tools came into the mainstream (Slack, LifeSize, etc), thus making it easier for your office boss to track you down and see/hear where you are.

The other issue is managers that don't get the remote concept. If you have someone that gets their shite done, and they do good work, but they do it at 10:00PM (and that's not disruptive to the team/company) then who gives a frick...let them do it.

So, to answer your question though...no, it will not.

As soon as they find a vaccine for this shite people will be back at the office.

Now, it would be fricking amazing on so many levels if it did gain traction, as it would increase the revenue for companies by not having to pay massive overhead on space. As long as everyone was transparent with expectations - it could easily be accomplished where office personnel was 75-100% remote.

Obviously, anyone with a manufacturing piece of their business would have to have asses on the floor, but it would be great, at least at my company, if were able to wipe roughly 60k s/f of office space off the books.

I do a mixture. Boss lives in another state, but rents out an office for me here since the job is paperwork-heavy, plus I need access to heavy duty printing, the scanner, etc. I also need my double screens for a lot of things.

I work from home Mondays/Fridays unless whatever I'm working on requires me being physically there.

It is a lot easier (mentally) to go into the office when there's no set time you're rushing to make, you're not driving during traffic hours, no coworkers or supervisors to have to deal with, etc. Often times, going into my office is more quiet and peaceful than my own house.

Not unless corona kills all the boomers.

The only thing that will change the paradigm is boomer bosses retiring. Managing employees remotely requires a different skill set, and most of them are unwilling to learn it.

One thing I've learned is that it has to be a team/company thing. Everyone has to buy into it. I used to work at a firm that would allow us to work from home 2 days a week. But there were several partners that hated it and would constantly complain about not being able to "find me to ask me a question". Apparently the concept of picking up the phone and calling me was too hard. They also didn't want to learn and use the screen-share technology we were given for this.

So the end result was after 9 months they rescinded the program.

If Katrina didn't change this "butt in office seats" mentality, this little bug sure isn't.

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I would not want to work full-time from home.

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I always solved it by having an “office” at home, even if it was a utility closet. A physical confined space that I visit only to do work. Also, working away from the house once a week kept it healthy for me.

I work from home every day and have for the past 15 years or so. It has its benefits for sure but I miss socializing with people face to face.

I did just take a nap, though, so that's nice.

i doint want to work from home

I don't want full time work from home but I'd love the flexibility to do it a couple of times per week if I wanted to.

My last job had this and it was nice. We had a situation where we were forced to work from home for an extended period. I was kinda ready to go back to the office by day 4 in a row.

Doing work from a laptop would be a fricking bitch too so if I were to work from home it would pretty much have to be actually at home.