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I'm not in Canada, but in my social circles, the answer to "for who" is: "for men". For whatever reason, most of my male friends now work from home. The women

I'm not in Canada, but in my social circles, the answer to "for who" is: "for men". For whatever reason, most of my male friends now work from home. The women I know work in labs, classrooms, and other places that you have to go to for a reason. It has caused this weird flip where it's now the guys making all of the plans because we're starved for social interaction, meanwhile our wives are more likely to opt for introvert-time.

ghiculescu 4y ago
You’re so right. And this is not a great trend; extrapolate it forward and birth rates go down down down. Men are supposed to be social.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  My point was than men are being more authentically social now that they're not forced to be artificially social in an office. So it's kind of the opposite of what you said. Also, I'd argue that down down down is the right direction.
chollida1 4y ago
Hmm, that's interesting. it's the exact opposite for me and my social circle. It's predominantly the women who are working form home far more. My guy friends do maybe one day a week at home while the women do 3-4. Though I guess i have alot more white collar friends so this might explain why we're seeing different things? We've assumed it was because women are more likely to do white collar work that you can do anywhere and men are more likely to do blue collar work that requires you to be on site. Also could be that I'd imagine women still do more of the child care than men do and that is far easier done at home:)
- __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  I'm not going to argue for this position, but I've heard it said that men tend to work with things and women tend to work with people. So rather than white/blue collar I'm thinking that a distinguishing feature might be whether you need another human in the room to do the job. Of course it's absurd that there would be gendered jobs, but then we live in an absurd world.
version_five 4y ago
This is almost certainly wrong. Maybe for men in a narrow demographic. But substantially all of truck drivers, taxi/uber/delivery drivers, construction workers, etc etc are men. Most "physical" jobs that need somebody there, are still done by men. I understand the point that nurses and teachers are female dominated professions, but in the balance it's most likely still men who are out more.
- zamfi 4y ago
  “in my social circles” suggests that they’re referring to knowledge workers. I would 100% believe that among highly credentialed knowledge workers, more men than women are in roles that make remote work feasible. You’re not wrong, of course, about the broader population.
- watwut 4y ago
  The other female dominated professions are service staff, receptionists, cleaners. Majority of people in lower paid positions work out of home due to nature of the work. I don't know how to guess which gender among them works from home more. But people here underestimate amount of blue color female workers.

ghiculescu 4y ago

You’re so right. And this is not a great trend; extrapolate it forward and birth rates go down down down. Men are supposed to be social.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
My point was than men are being more authentically social now that they're not forced to be artificially social in an office. So it's kind of the opposite of what you said. Also, I'd argue that down down down is the right direction.

chollida1 4y ago

Hmm, that's interesting. it's the exact opposite for me and my social circle. It's predominantly the women who are working form home far more. My guy friends do maybe one day a week at home while the women do 3-4. Though I guess i have alot more white collar friends so this might explain why we're seeing different things? We've assumed it was because women are more likely to do white collar work that you can do anywhere and men are more likely to do blue collar work that requires you to be on site. Also could be that I'd imagine women still do more of the child care than men do and that is far easier done at home:)

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
I'm not going to argue for this position, but I've heard it said that men tend to work with things and women tend to work with people. So rather than white/blue collar I'm thinking that a distinguishing feature might be whether you need another human in the room to do the job. Of course it's absurd that there would be gendered jobs, but then we live in an absurd world.

version_five 4y ago

This is almost certainly wrong. Maybe for men in a narrow demographic. But substantially all of truck drivers, taxi/uber/delivery drivers, construction workers, etc etc are men. Most "physical" jobs that need somebody there, are still done by men. I understand the point that nurses and teachers are female dominated professions, but in the balance it's most likely still men who are out more.

zamfi 4y ago
“in my social circles” suggests that they’re referring to knowledge workers. I would 100% believe that among highly credentialed knowledge workers, more men than women are in roles that make remote work feasible. You’re not wrong, of course, about the broader population.
watwut 4y ago
The other female dominated professions are service staff, receptionists, cleaners. Majority of people in lower paid positions work out of home due to nature of the work. I don't know how to guess which gender among them works from home more. But people here underestimate amount of blue color female workers.