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It isn't becoming normal, it's being forced due many factors: risk of getting sick with no proper treatment, possible schools not opening which forces to deal w

by clvx 6y ago

It isn't becoming normal, it's being forced due many factors: risk of getting sick with no proper treatment, possible schools not opening which forces to deal with your kids, no vaccine, etc.

aminozuur 6y ago
"A Gallup poll found a majority of American adults working from home would prefer to continue doing so “as much as possible” after the pandemic."
- techsupporter 6y ago
  The word "possible" is doing a lot of work in that quote. Notably, if enough people go back to the office because they prefer to do so--especially if they're managers or others who can influence things like good reviews and higher raises--there will certainly be a tipping point where more people see themselves as "needing" to return to the office in order to further their careers and money. And if even more people return, the habits like remembering to make meetings accessible to people who aren't physically present will fade. Not that meetings were particularly accessible, even in many tech industry companies, before. Conference room audio equipment is quite bad in a lot of places. Possible seems to me to mean if almost all people in a company, group, or department are working remotely, if working remotely isn't seen as a career impediment (or working in the office isn't viewed as more of a boost than working remotely would take away from), and if people can still participate in groups, then perhaps. What I figure we will see is a hybrid, where people are in the office a day or two per week and at home the rest of the time. That still means you have to be within commuting distance of an office and still have to make child care and other appointment arrangements.
whateveracct 6y ago
Many people have gotten a taste and are not going to go back. I know multiple people who are now making remote work (not just covid-predicated) a requirement for their new job search.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
Of course but it also serves as a proving ground to some reluctant old fogies who act like "it will never work". Not everything about coronapocalypse has to be negative. Maybe when the next pandemic hits people will be working from home more, more acceptable of masks and distance, etc. The next one in a decade or so may be even more virulent and deadly, so this may be a time to learn for all of us especially us stubborn people in the USA.

by clvx 6y ago

It isn't becoming normal, it's being forced due many factors: risk of getting sick with no proper treatment, possible schools not opening which forces to deal with your kids, no vaccine, etc.

aminozuur 6y ago

"A Gallup poll found a majority of American adults working from home would prefer to continue doing so “as much as possible” after the pandemic."

techsupporter 6y ago
The word "possible" is doing a lot of work in that quote. Notably, if enough people go back to the office because they prefer to do so--especially if they're managers or others who can influence things like good reviews and higher raises--there will certainly be a tipping point where more people see themselves as "needing" to return to the office in order to further their careers and money. And if even more people return, the habits like remembering to make meetings accessible to people who aren't physically present will fade. Not that meetings were particularly accessible, even in many tech industry companies, before. Conference room audio equipment is quite bad in a lot of places. Possible seems to me to mean if almost all people in a company, group, or department are working remotely, if working remotely isn't seen as a career impediment (or working in the office isn't viewed as more of a boost than working remotely would take away from), and if people can still participate in groups, then perhaps. What I figure we will see is a hybrid, where people are in the office a day or two per week and at home the rest of the time. That still means you have to be within commuting distance of an office and still have to make child care and other appointment arrangements.

whateveracct 6y ago

Many people have gotten a taste and are not going to go back. I know multiple people who are now making remote work (not just covid-predicated) a requirement for their new job search.

stjohnswarts 6y ago

Of course but it also serves as a proving ground to some reluctant old fogies who act like "it will never work". Not everything about coronapocalypse has to be negative. Maybe when the next pandemic hits people will be working from home more, more acceptable of masks and distance, etc. The next one in a decade or so may be even more virulent and deadly, so this may be a time to learn for all of us especially us stubborn people in the USA.