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The VP of Sales where I work recently posted about our record breaking month and how he can't wait to get back to the office as it'll be mandatory starting in O
by gxs 4y ago
The VP of Sales where I work recently posted about our record breaking month and how he can't wait to get back to the office as it'll be mandatory starting in October.
The irony, as you can see clear as day, is that they achieved the record month while everyone was working remotely.
Someone actually called him out on it, surprisingly, but he simply backpedaled and said remote is just not his personal preference.
No -- they did not learn ANYTHING over the last few years and I suspect that the pandemic will be looked back on with a bit of nostalgia in a few years when we look back.
There will always be the horrors that came with it, but there will also be people who got time off work, fathers who got to spend more time with their kids, people who got a lot of their lives back by avoiding commutes, etc.
I realize I'm opening myself up to get completely roasted in the comments because the pandemic was really rough on people, but I hope I preemptively addressed that here in saying that the pandemic also shed a light in other areas of our life that need change.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago> mandatory starting in October Just as the covid and flu season starts up.
- throwaway5959 4y agoI hadn’t gotten sick until about three weeks ago since the start of the pandemic. Office work is somewhat biohazardous.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoSomewhat? Offices are veritable petri dishes, with bugs sourced from public transport and people's school aged children.
- throwaway5959 4y agoEveryone experienced the pandemic differently and your experience is just as valid as anyone else’s. I don’t have kids and walked to work, so my experience wasn’t very different working from home (which I still am). The difference it made on the fathers I work with was profound. They are able to drop off and pick up their kids from school because they’re close by now, they spend 0 time commuting vs over an hour before, and generally seem less stressed than when they were in the office. Productivity has soared as well. We’re never going back.
- musha68k 4y agoEconomy needs workers though, downturn or not. Not going into the reality of ongoing pandemic (attrition to health is real) but in general the last word on remote mandates hasn’t been spoken at all if workers don’t give in readily. It’s an ongoing discussion that can settle to good learnings / outcomes for all parties involved. Fear is the mind-killer.
- redanddead 4y agoYou said nothing wrong