Working from home - how many jobs eliminated?

I believe you are correct. Just line in 2008, management will learn all the wrong lessons from this and wages will stagnate further and workers will be viewed even more replaceable.

quote:

---

So your thought is that management will be able to monitor employee's work habits more now that they are working from home?

---

It will expose all the idiots who prioritize looking busy and kissing arse.

If you have no face to face interaction or meetings, you'll be judged solely on what you produce. I love it, ready to cull the herd.

quote:

---

There is no wonder why you have probably been passed over for multiple promotions

---

Wrong. Always been promoted on first look

This is quite possibly the most Boomer trait in business that needs to go.

If a business owner is paying attention, brick and mortar office space is the single most expensive overhead expense on the vast majority of businesses books. If you have an opportunity to reduce that cost by reducing your footprint it’s a direct impact to your bottom line.

I’m a CM grad and have worked for small businesses for the majority of my career in construction. The last company I worked for was making huge strides in mobile office, had a Superintendant that ran his entire job from an iPad. I’d spend roughly 75% of my time in the field and routinely would work from home, especially when i was prepping for contracts. It was far easier for me to get my wife and kid out of the house and dive into a set of prints on my kitchen table than driving into BR through traffic and dealing with that crap.

You pay a man a salary to perform a job. Either he does it efficiently or he doesn’t. I worked with a boomer PM at one company that was literally my fathers age. We both had 2-3 jobs going at a time. We both were very effective in delivering work and making money. He rarely left the office before 7pm and was in working just about every Saturday. If I worked a weekend it was typically in the field.

In this company i routinely got shite from my boss about the hours i worked. Didn’t matter that I was much more efficient at what I did. For example, I learned to use on screen estimating software and could do concrete and masonry takeoffs in hours where it would take him days to do it by hand. But far too many boomer bosses still equate productivity to the number of hours spent butt in seat.

Now there is an accountability piece on your side. You’ve got to be disciplined enough to do your job, and that will be a culture shock to people that have never worked remotely before. But my hope is people will look at this and realize with technology and mobile communications there are opportunities to really examine how business can operate in 2020

quote:

---

this company i routinely got shite from my boss about the hours i worked. Didn’t matter that I was much more efficient at what I did.

---

Your forgetting that the guy who pays you may want you physically at work. I don’t disagree with your post, but I think most- not all- employers still want employees to be AT work when they are paying them.

quote:

---

Probably bad for boomers with zero technological knowledge/skills.

---

What a joke, I know many boomers who work from home and are more productive than others who are sitting in their office. It's not rocket science to use VPN, WebEx, Teams, etc.

I will be splitting time between being on site and working from home. I come in at 5:30, handle things that need to be done in the field, then spend the rest of the day working remotely. Much of the time I need to be in the field but to do procedure updates, reporting, and all the other stuff I can do it from the house just as easy as being in the office. Once this virus crap is over, I'll go back to normal routine.

quote:

---

Your forgetting that the guy who pays you may want you physically at work. I don’t disagree with your post, but I think most- not all- employers still want employees to be AT work when they are paying them.

---

Which is shortsighted if your work can be performed anywhere, and you are able to be reached via phone/Skype/etc...

Just because you are working at home does not make you less productive. I made my wfh environment as close as I can to the office.

I have a docking station, 3 monitors, same keyboard, etc. I get a hell of a lot done. I will also get a few things done around the house, yesterday I got dinner started.

I do have friends that working from home means a day off where you just answer emails and watch YouTube. There is definitely both sides.