Title : "While workers of all ages have become accustomed to dialing in and skipping the wearying commute, younger ones have grown especially attached to the new way of doing business."
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"While workers of all ages have become accustomed to dialing in and skipping the wearying commute, younger ones have grown especially attached to the new way of doing business."
"And in many cases, the decision to return pits older managers who view working in the office as the natural order of things against younger employees who’ve come to see operating remotely as completely normal in the 16 months since the pandemic hit. Some new hires have never gone into their employers’ workplace at all.... In a recent survey by the Conference Board, 55 percent of millennials, defined as people born between 1981 and 1996, questioned the wisdom of returning to the office. Among members of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, 45 percent had doubts about going back, while only 36 percent of baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, felt that way.... At the same time, more than a few older workers welcome the flexibility of working from home after years in a cubicle, even as some in their 20s yearn for the camaraderie of the office or the dynamism of an urban setting...."
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The dirty secret the white collar world doesn't want to admit is that most people are not working 40 hour weeks anymore, and/or are coming to the realization of how much time they were wasting doing nothing at the office. Why would anyone want to give up 10-20 more hours of their week when they are just as productive. The genie is out of the bottle, and isn't going back. Salaried employees no longer are willing to be paid for hours of their lives taken, and want compensations based on their output (as it should be). The 40 hour work week is dying, and we should be happy about this.... now we need to figure out a way to make sure hourly workers are being compensated more fairly as well.
There's a long tradition of paying people for their time. You can measure time, but it's a rough proxy for work. If you're at home getting the work done, no one knows how long it took you, and the time you save by working quickly and efficiently is time you get to keep for yourself. Once you've experienced that benefit, how can you stand to give it up?
The article quotes one manager who says: “It’s just not possible to say no to some remote work.... It’s simply not worth risking losing a good employee because of a doctrinaire view that folks need to be in the office.”
The words "doctrinaire view" link to this article from last June, "Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It. For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like."
That article cites research showing "contemporary open offices led to 70 percent fewer face-to-face interactions": "People didn’t find it helpful to have so many spontaneous conversations, so they wore headphones and avoided one another."
"And in many cases, the decision to return pits older managers who view working in the office as the natural order of things against younger employees who’ve come to see operating remotely as completely normal in the 16 months since the pandemic hit. Some new hires have never gone into their employers’ workplace at all.... In a recent survey by the Conference Board, 55 percent of millennials, defined as people born between 1981 and 1996, questioned the wisdom of returning to the office. Among members of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, 45 percent had doubts about going back, while only 36 percent of baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, felt that way.... At the same time, more than a few older workers welcome the flexibility of working from home after years in a cubicle, even as some in their 20s yearn for the camaraderie of the office or the dynamism of an urban setting...."
I like this comment over there:
The dirty secret the white collar world doesn't want to admit is that most people are not working 40 hour weeks anymore, and/or are coming to the realization of how much time they were wasting doing nothing at the office. Why would anyone want to give up 10-20 more hours of their week when they are just as productive. The genie is out of the bottle, and isn't going back. Salaried employees no longer are willing to be paid for hours of their lives taken, and want compensations based on their output (as it should be). The 40 hour work week is dying, and we should be happy about this.... now we need to figure out a way to make sure hourly workers are being compensated more fairly as well.
There's a long tradition of paying people for their time. You can measure time, but it's a rough proxy for work. If you're at home getting the work done, no one knows how long it took you, and the time you save by working quickly and efficiently is time you get to keep for yourself. Once you've experienced that benefit, how can you stand to give it up?
The article quotes one manager who says: “It’s just not possible to say no to some remote work.... It’s simply not worth risking losing a good employee because of a doctrinaire view that folks need to be in the office.”
The words "doctrinaire view" link to this article from last June, "Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It. For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like."
That article cites research showing "contemporary open offices led to 70 percent fewer face-to-face interactions": "People didn’t find it helpful to have so many spontaneous conversations, so they wore headphones and avoided one another."
Thus articles "While workers of all ages have become accustomed to dialing in and skipping the wearying commute, younger ones have grown especially attached to the new way of doing business."
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