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Or even in the US. They can ship all the tech jobs to India.
Oh, wait, they tried that. It didn't work so well.
Actually it did work well. What changed was that recent graduates in the US took positions at much lower wages allowing for the positions to return to the US directly working for companies or working for in-sourcing companies.
working from home is torture. Why should I buy all expensive setup? A solid chair, big monitors, network adapters etc. Also people are like 60% as productive on my team when WFH. Too many distractions. **********. I want to go back to the office. Eventually. Once they are ready to fully reopen. Not going back for some curtailed bull****
working from home is torture. Why should I buy all expensive setup? A solid chair, big monitors, network adapters etc. Also people are like 60% as productive on my team when WFH. Too many distractions. **********. I want to go back to the office. Eventually. Once they are ready to fully reopen. Not going back for some curtailed bull****
It's not that bad. You just need to get yourself setup so that you're comfortable. Your largest expense will be a chair that you can spend hours in. For that I recommend getting a Flash Furniture HERCULES Series chair.
If you need to purchase your own equipment, then use the following links to shop for deals.
"....encouraging webcam required meetings --- it reinforces work relationships."
Yes…everybody can ZOOM….!
Zoom ‘founder,’ eric, came into the picture just at the right time…
Just as all hell broke loose …
since the beginning, Zoom bombings…
All sorts of creeps busting in on people’s meetings, cozy gatherings, prayer groups,
even preying on children using ZOOM……..
Omg. Zoom guy knew. Cha-ching…
Now, mr yuan is finally helping the FBI. – since the beginning, no one/zoom - still can’t figure out how to stop zoom bombers…
no patch is helping. still going on 2 months.
...and everyone (ma, pa, pastor, teacher, I ‘work from home’ joe executive, oprah windfrey, the prince of whales, tom, dick, harry & little timmy) - they all know...
zoom bombers lurking around – but they still sign up for Zoom service….
It's not that bad. You just need to get yourself setup so that you're comfortable. Your largest expense will be a chair that you can spend hours in. For that I recommend getting a Flash Furniture HERCULES Series chair.
If you need to purchase your own equipment, then use the following links to shop for deals.
I have 500sf apartment with no dedicated home office/area, no desk, nothing. I am confined to my dining table/chair or my couch. May be be WFH is great for those with 5000sf suburban houses who already had a home office with a decent desk, chair, monitors etc. I don't have any of this, nor do I have any desire to pay a single penny of my own money to recreate this setup. I shouldn't have to. In my office i have a hige desk with 4 monitors and an ergonomic chair. It would cost me several thousand dollars to buy this. No way in hell. Companies "allowing" us to work from home should let us take the equipment from the offices. Because we can't even tax deduct these purchases. This is total BS. And, if have to work from home, definitely wouldn't be doing it from a tiny Manhattan apartment!
"I have 500sf apartment with no dedicated home office/area, no desk, nothing.
I am confined to my dining table/chair or my couch. May be be WFH is great for
those with 5000sf suburban houses who already had a home office with a decent
desk, chair, monitors etc. I don't have any of this, nor do I have any desire to pay
a single penny of my own money to recreate this setup.
I shouldn't have to. In my office i have a hige desk with 4 monitors and an ergonomic chair.
It would cost me several thousand dollars to buy this. No way in hell. Companies "allowing"
us to work from home should let us take the equipment from the offices. Because we can't
even tax deduct these purchases. This is total BS. And, if have to work from home, definitely
wouldn't be doing it from a tiny Manhattan apartment!"
"I'm confined..."
…and the twitter people too (500sqft apt, pay for equipment, work on couch)……
don't say i am wrong ...google it .... your anecdotal experience does not mean that is not how many employers have been handling it , including the company i worked for .... there are endless articles about how employers tend not to pay the same thing for working from remote locations at home and not just now .
studies have shown many workers would be willing to take pay cuts if they could work from home and employers will try to exploit that if they are not already via either cut hours or pay cuts .
Nonsense. Paycuts now are tied to reduced corp revenue, not efficiency.
…and the twitter people too (500sqft apt, pay for equipment, work on couch)……
Point being.. very few people would like to live in the city and work from home. Those are mutually exclusive desires almost. When you live in Manhattan you accept a tiny living space in exchange to access to public spaces.. offices, building amenities, parks etc. Someone who already WANTED to work from home probably valued his/her private space highly and wouldn't accept this trade off in the first place, e.g. wouldnt be willing to live and work in a place like NYC. People who came to NYC, to work for twitter or not, did no do so in order to enjoy the serenity of their own home. They came to enjoy the city. So they will either go back to the office, find a different city to enjoy or radically change their lifestyle - what kind of idiot wants to permanently WFH from Manhattan? Unless their home is a penthouse with CP views I guess.
I have 500sf apartment with no dedicated home office/area, no desk, nothing. I am confined to my dining table/chair or my couch. May be be WFH is great for those with 5000sf suburban houses who already had a home office with a decent desk, chair, monitors etc. I don't have any of this, nor do I have any desire to pay a single penny of my own money to recreate this setup. I shouldn't have to. In my office i have a high desk with 4 monitors and an ergonomic chair. It would cost me several thousand dollars to buy this. No way in hell. Companies "allowing" us to work from home should let us take the equipment from the offices. Because we can't even tax deduct these purchases. This is total BS. And, if have to work from home, definitely wouldn't be doing it from a tiny Manhattan apartment!
I know a guy who's doing it in a 900 sqft apartment in the city. He built his high desk with wooden 1x12's and cinderblocks and thought outside the box in order to get the rest.
Point being.. very few people would like to live in the city and work from home. Those are mutually exclusive desires almost. When you live in Manhattan you accept a tiny living space in exchange to access to public spaces.. offices, building amenities, parks etc. Someone who already WANTED to work from home probably valued his/her private space highly and wouldn't accept this trade off in the first place, e.g. wouldnt be willing to live and work in a place like NYC. People who came to NYC, to work for twitter or not, did no do so in order to enjoy the serenity of their own home. They came to enjoy the city. So they will either go back to the office, find a different city to enjoy or radically change their lifestyle - what kind of idiot wants to permanently WFH from Manhattan? Unless their home is a penthouse with CP views I guess.
If you had four monitors then your life was probably in adrenaline mode. Maybe you work in trading & sales or similar , I know that socializing with others matters. The whole routine is now upside down - no gym, no social interaction, no life after work.
So why live in manhattan .. will this be temporary? I think it will come back to the way it used to be, before year end to a larger degree.
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