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CNN was talking about the remote working thing being a way of life in the future for most americans. Not sure what planet they are living on. Not all of us have jobs to where we can work from home. Not all of us are white collar execs. Some of us have to actually go to work to... WORK. Not all positions can be done remotely
Most white collar roles can be done wfh effectively. We had dozens of remote meetings this week, involving over 100 staff in total, and many issues were resolved.
The corp which cannot deal with wfh is dysfunctional to start with.
We are in NYC, and we want a skeleton crew in our office this week. We will average under 50% on site every single day, with no known end date yet. And we are still doing extremely well, both in terms of health and results for the corp.
CNN was talking about the remote working thing being a way of life in the future for most americans. Not sure what planet they are living on. Not all of us have jobs to where we can work from home. Not all of us are white collar execs. Some of us have to actually go to work to... WORK. Not all positions can be done remotely
Watch productivity completely swirl down the toilet if we create this utopian, Remote employment everywhere as well. Ive seen it first hand with many "remote working managers" at my places of employment. They serve no purpose, never around to actually the issues that actually go on to fix them, and good look getting ahold of them most of the time. Any place I have worked, when more and more position started going "remote" thats when operations and the overall companies hit the crapper
Curious what your current job is? You seem so jaded. True a lot of jobs can’t be done remotely and they are “white collar” but it’s not just “white collar execs” that have remote jobs. I’ve had remote jobs and I am no where near being a white collar exec.
Yesterday my accounting firm sent out an email that everyone has the option to WFH from now on. The only thing is, we are not 100% paperless, so workers will still have to go in to pick up and drop things off.
My computer setup at work is much better than at home and my driving commute is not bad, so I will keep going in, for now.
My company has been giving daily updates on the virus but only about a third of the workforce are working from home. I get a feeling a majority of that number usually work from home anyways. I’m not sure why they haven’t yet mandated that all eligible employees work from home. Even the governor has recommended doing so.
They keep saying they are testing resiliency plans. We do business continuity testing twice a year. Now when it’s time to implement, the higher ups are shuffling their feet. I don’t get it.
My company has been giving daily updates on the virus but only about a third of the workforce are working from home. I get a feeling a majority of that number usually work from home anyways. I’m not sure why they haven’t yet mandated that all eligible employees work from home. Even the governor has recommended doing so.
They keep saying they are testing resiliency plans. We do business continuity testing twice a year. Now when it’s time to implement, the higher ups are shuffling their feet. I don’t get it.
Yep, same. I work for the federal government in a public facing office that serves a vulnerable population. We had a meeting Wednesday and were told no extra steps would be taken to make sure that the office was cleaned to higher standards. We got another email yesterday saying that telework policies were not to be changed. My agency is one that has recently stripped down telework and seems to want to continue this out of principle, but it makes no sense in this situation.
Our ventilation system is awful. We have people regularly coughing in the lobby area and in the regular office and people have been complaining for years about it. It is in a leased structure. People are worried about the safety of the workers and of the public who has to come in. There were no provisions yet rolled out to offer the public options to have appointments via telephone instead of making them come into an office even though in my local area (I am in Chicagoland) many of the public buildings like the courts, etc. are shut.
My wife works in Healthcare Administration so she's going to be doing overtime until further notice due to an influx of coronavirus patients at the hospital. My ED e-mailed staff earlier this week giving them the option to work from home, and just about the entire staff (myself included) took the option. Only senior management will be working at the company headquarters.
Here's a great graphic on all the large firms that do NOT offer paid sick leave to employees and how many employees do not have this benefit. For some reason this chart is truncated.
It reads like a who's who of American business, and IMO is a rather sad reality. I see only two major hotel chains in the group and find it ironic that one of these firms was founded by a devoutly religious man .... so much for the Sermon on the Mount .....
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