Remote Work DEAD? Hear Expert Insights and Predictions
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Is it just a fad or the new normal for businesses? Hundreds of thousands of employees took their work online during the pandemic. Four years later, many employers are pushing to bring workers back into the office. This week on What’s America Thinking, host Julia Manchester explores the latest studies on remote work with Jessica Kriegel, chief scientist of workplace culture at Culture Partners.
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I used to work for a corporation for almost 10 years and the amount of time wasted being in the office, commuting and dealing with coworkers that you didn't want ro talk to, was soul destroying.
Remote work for many people is just better in every way and you don't even have to come into the office to collaborate anymore.
I agree 100%. I worked from home in 2020 and 2021, into 2022. We accomplished some major projects that probably went much more smoothly. Also the benefits that you bring up are big reasons for keeping WFH around. It's the older executive mentality that doesn't trust workers they can't see.
My manager discussed WFH with all of us before we had to return to the office. One common theme was the flexibility appreciated by the employees and we didn't think anything of giving the company an extra hour or two here and there. I did that quite frequently because I was used to spending 2hrs a day on the road commuting, so it didn't really cost me anything. During high priority activities many of us gave the company 12 hour days, some days even more than 12 hours when we were locked down and couldn't go anywhere. My manager saw that and understood that bringing us back into the office was going to mean less time to give back to the company, and a drop in productivity that the distractions of a noisy open office environment contribute.
We lost one of our biggest engineering assets when the company mandated return to the office. He was such a big loss that the company allowed him to continue working remotely for about six months while they figured out how to replace him.
I'm planning on retiring in the next 5-7 years, right about the time we have more large projects that will be coming due one behind the other. My manager has expressed to me that he is worried about my retiring, along with the only other 20+ year engineer left in my group who may retire before I do as he's 10 years older than me. We've got a lot of smart engineers but they're all young and only have a few years of experience. They may be up to speed to replace us old timers in that amount of time, IF they stick around. Keeping today's generation around is turning out to be a challenge, especially in the age of the inflation we see today. A lot of them are only sticking around for 2-5 years and then moving on to a higher paying gig. And instead of hiring an experienced (expensive) engineer to replace them, they start over with a 25 year-old college grad (cheap) with a year or two under their belts and we start training them from scratch again.
The modern workplace is rapidly changing and employers are going to be hurting if they don't try to understand and learn to work with employees who now demand more than just a paycheck.
The government is freaked out by the prospects of a commercial trash estate crash due to all of the unused commercial real estate.
Exactly, like the housing crash, another one is just over the horizon for empty office buildings.
Being single I am way more productive WFH, too many distractions at the office. Near the end of covid we moved to a much smaller office, the options are full time remote, hybrid and full time office, the choice is yours.
BINGO!
There's also the economic impact on retail and hospitality that have been arguing for the end of WFH. Stores, restaurants, fast food outlets have lost a lot of business that office workers used to provide. The local governments are also pushing for an end of WFH, they're dependent on the tax revenues that workers bring to their cities and counties.
I can say from my personal experience (I work for state government), I would turn down a promotion to remain working at home full-time. I'm hybrid right now.
Same here tbh.
I have been remote for 4 years. I have been more productive while taking care of my 3 kids. When I worked in office my boss would call us into her office and gossip for hours and talk about her life problems. She was a micro manager and would get mad at us for not hitting our goals but the reason why we didn’t was because she loved to talk! It’s been nice being able to focus on my work. I get all my work done before the end of day and I truly love the work life balance I have.
CV proved remote works. Going back to the office is all about control.
Working from home is good on all fronts but many managers cannot feed power tripping addiction of the ability to terrorize employees. Maybe consoling their toxicity isn't a good idea
Whats the point of going back into the office if the majority of work can be done at home?.
Because your boss tells you what to do, not the other way around
The managers want you to go because the lease on the building....
@@DakotaFord592that’s what it’s all about
Most employers suffer in their ego because they can no longer impose a caste superiority in the workplace.
At least in manufacturing, production space makes money. Office space costs money. Companies that can minimize the number of cardboard cubes they have taking up space in their building can dedicate more of that space to actually produce products people want to buy.
My company works in the AI software space and employs over 1,000 professionals around the world. We went remote during covid and have since given up our office space entirely and gone fully decentralized. These are all six- figure plus roles that are fully remote and will never go back to a mandatory office. This is the future.
How much is commercial real estate paying to keep producing these videos?
Commercial real estate is dead!
No kidding 🤣 these people are deplorable
It's difficult to work from home being an electronics technician. I don't really want to work from home anyways, I want to get out of the house.
it's all about real estate values. If work from home becomes the rule, no one wants to buy your property. Huge portfolios take a hit.
Let's not forget the tax write offs for the building and expenses related to it
Office buildings could become data centers in the future, like when many malls were converted to data centers. Sure the building price would take a hit now, but still gather some money from rents.
That and commercial tenants (like gyms, coffee, nightclubs and what not). It would also alleviate city traffic congestion and open up new revenue streams for businesses in suburban areas where the workers relocate to.
@@tengamangapiu This sounds like a rational well thought out plan, so clearly you're crazy
Time to pass a bill "Remote Workers bill of rights!", require all workers to be 90% in the United States. Require that at most 2 days are in the office or a percentage of the quarter. Require companies to have satellite sites, so going to an office wouldn't necessarily be the office their company is in.
She’s literally at home, I believe her opinion is bias .
It saves the worker about 6-10 grand a year plus time and clothing prep. So.. like it was 15k that the company got for free. Never again!
I’m a structural steel worker and it’s impossible for me to work from home 😂
Embrace the change !! I can't work for lame out dated management that can't adapt to change. I own my own business now and work from home. I'm much happier. My productivity is mine to enjoy now.
What exactly is it that you produce ?
I work in software and could do much of my job fully remote. But meetings in person add something, when you have to whiteboard a system design, and even just knowing when to talk. But I also like getting code running during all hands meetings. Teams/Slack kind of ruins focus work at your desk no matter where you are, luckily I discovered how to mute multi person channels so I don't have that bell ringing every time someone chats to someone else. So hybrid for me I guess. My office commute is 15 minutes, I'd be a lot more anti office if it were an hour or more.
Most office jobs would work fine with no more than 2 days in office, the rest remote.
I disagree partly because without a top notch management team, ensuring productivity across the board can be a headache. If we assume that all office companies have highly efficient management, then perhaps they could resort to 60% remote work.
@@eliot7189It all depends on how "productivity" is measured. If constantly moving your mouse and keyboard is what's considered productive over the completion of tasks then it's just bureaucratic gaslighting. It costs the employer more to pay for office building leases too after all. They just want more control over their wage slaves who never get raises anyways. Over the pandemic, they've learned that they can hire people overseas for less pay too. So there isn't really an incentive for either party to continue office work aside from optics that are artificial anyways.
Unless there's a real need to go to the office you shouldn't go... Don't fall for the trap where they say you have to come in so many times per month or week... They'll keep tightening the noose until you're there full time
@@MiguelCedenoLozano I think it would be better for workers in the USA if the dollar revalues lower against other currencies. That would help to protect the office jobs here from outsourcing, because it would be cheaper to hire locally than to source workers from overseas.
@@tengamangapiu There should definitely be laws set in place for "American companies" to give priority to "American employees" plain and simple especially when large corporations receive tax cuts at the expense of tax paying citizens who also paid massive tuitions to schools that "guaranteed" them a job at these companies. But our empire is crumbling and our government doesn't serve its people. We're just livestock. Our tax money ultimately benefits foreign governments and their citizens.
Businesses did not care if they left people homeless. They moved on. What they did not expect. People are in control in their own homes.
Labor slavery is over. Employers, welcome to the future.
If conservative men want women working from home, remote work is the right step in that direction.
Remote work 100%. Not going back. It’s so much better.
Freedom? Oh no we can't have you have that.
I work 3 days remotely 2 days in office. I can say that working remotely has given me and my company massive benefits such as:
- Saving money from commuting.
- Working hours flexibility.
- General employee happiness.
- Less lateness to meetings and work shifts.
- Better productivity (Due to less interruptions from colleagues and distractions)
That is just to name a few. At the end of the day if somebody is lazy and not doing their work, you will know by the deadline.
I love how people talk about “workplace culture” as if that is a planned thing. lol. Majority of the cultures are toxic, those that aren’t toxic are still usually pretty weird. There is no planned workplace culture.
I work from home and set my own hours. Maybe a few rounds of golf. My niece took a cruise and was still on the clock, crazy.
Bring back the office and bring back manufacturing.
Because they all moved out of their states of high paying jobs. Moving to cheaper states. Made them able to live much richer. They don't want to go back to poor.
If you want people back at the office, extend what you consider their workday from the moment they leave the house until the moment they pull back into the driveway… You will see you’ll end up with a lot of people for about five hours a day if you want to 40 hour week.
Sir and I quote from the company Med Nurse "How an employee gets to work is their responsibility" smh
Manage to outcome! Right on! Key takeaway of Remote work!
Never take the side of a corporation. Remote work is here to stay
New era of work???new era of do nothing expect a pay check.
These people are only talking about some of the workforce they only support the white collar world what about the producers the builders the tradesman the people you call when the stuff your using brakes ? Not to mention the further promotion of the keyboard warrior you know the people who have little to no problems barking at others with no idea what fafo really means ..it's a social construct that needs to be reinforced you know lunch time friendships and connections that simply can't take place in a remote environment and soooo much more
Not all jobs will be remote, but no reason to penalize those that can just because some can't. As for socializing, it's not the job of your coworkers to provide you with friends. It's your responsibility to create opportunities to hang out with people who actually want to hang out with you.
The meeting thing is BS. Where I work, meetings are booked with both a room and a phone bridge. Those who are in the office can come to the meeting physically, those who are remote can call in. My team has 1 set weekly meeting, it is seamless and all other meeting are handled the same.
informal meetings are nonsense, management has their schedules booked with tons of meetings by default there's no time for "informal meetings" in well run organizations.
3:47 HAHA how much are they paying her to say this? It’s great on her mental health to be in an office? What?
Lots of entitled people (“remote” worker).
First of all, the patrons who made this video with so much pain must understand that the U.S. is not America and never will be.
Yep y’all go ahead with this. Your job will be outsourced to India.
This is delusional cognitive dissonance thinking. Corporate management has been outsourcing work to other countries for decades buddy... The jobs of today cannot be outsourced anymore than they already are
If a job can be worked from home, why would employers bother to hire Americans, Americans are relatively expensive.
Stop selling Reality,,, People on the Left will Never buy into Reality.... All kidding aside,,, There's many millions of Indians that would Love to make American money working from Home. And will be more productive. Wow😮
Lots of reasons. Some industries are regulated such that you have to be a US citizen to do them. Others you have to be on US soil while doing them. Also some jobs rely on knowledge of American culture to be done competently. And for others there simply isn't a sufficient concentration elsewhere of people with the technical knowledge needed, though that last is changing the most rapidly. Also American companies have cultural expectations that can't always be fulfilled with fully foreign workforces. For example, in my company I can recall the global hunt for programmers who could do what I needed, trying to pay as little as I could for high quality output. I went through 5 teams in India before giving up. Their culture just doesn't work with the way I work. I eventually had to hire 2 Americans and a bunch of Ukrainians.
Chief Scientist for work place culture...... 🤔🙄😂
I work in the USA for a French-based company. The world (Europe, Asia, etc.) has gone back to the office except for the USA.
Lies my relative has done it for years
I know several of the workers at home. They say the money spent on clothing and essential can be use in other places like, swimming lessons, music lessons, the sports our children play, school, college, just general raising….❤. This makes sense to me !!!😊
How do Producthion happen home ??? Sit in jammies. Do nothing..U.S.A. IS DOOMED...
Bidenomics ended work. Never mind remote work.
Employers.
"Return to office so we can do meetings over teams"
If you work on a computer there is literally no need to be in an office. Employers just want control over people. If you want to go to the office have at it, but offer people the choice.
If I have to come into work and deal with people that get on my nerves..then all these people should also😂
It messes with oil prices.
You know oil and all fossil fuels must be phased out (except for where they are irreplaceable).
Good luck with that 😅@@alicecanestraro3943
What percentage of the workforce actually qualifies for remote work positions? “Working at the beach with my laptop.” Please. You aren’t. Lazy moochers. Dell helped themselves by firing the ones who don’t want to work in-person. Lazy moochers.
Employers want to control their employees, they have commercials least a lot of other companies depend on workers traveling to work and also restaurants in work area etc. But my concern is that the employee maybe the loser in the end because the employers will accept this is the new norm but they will also adapt to maximize profits. Hence outsource job will increase especially those that can be done 100% remotely. Then you add an AI top the next decades a lot of jobs will vanish employees need to be ready to adapt as well.
Working from home is easier for some jobs with no commute. However, there are tools that take advantage and ruin it for everyone. Remote work does effect productivity for most functions, that is why you have people taking multiple work from home jobs which means your aren't fully working for any of them and most monitoring systems to prevent this aren't allowed. I have also know people seeking work from home to avoid daycare for their children, so these people are either not doing their jobs or they are neglecting their children (4 yrs and under). I do think people who have to commute should be paid more.
If your work product can be transferred over a wire, then the pool of workers available to do your job has drastically increased. Is there someone who will work for half what you work for? Probably...somewhere where the cost of living is much lower. Go back to the office and convince your employer you are worth twice what he could be paying...or be out of a job.
This is blatantly untrue. People in other countries may not have as good of communication or viewpoints on the work they do... They might also do poor quality work and not be concerned about things like security.
Maybe you missed it but outsourcing happened a long time ago! They've already taken all these jobs that they wanted, and move them to the places where they could get cheap labor.
So don't come up with these dumb ideas that you're going to be run out of your field of work because it can be done remotely. 🤣
@@xephael3485 You are deflecting. Employers hire people who can fill roles. They will find someone cheaper. Then you can stay home all of the time.
As I mentioned to someone else spouting this nonsense, some industries are regulated such that you have to be a US citizen to do them. Others you have to be on US soil while doing them. Also some jobs rely on knowledge of American culture to be done competently. And for others there simply isn't a sufficient concentration elsewhere of people with the technical knowledge needed, though that last is changing the most rapidly. Also American companies have cultural expectations that can't always be fulfilled with fully foreign workforces. For example, in my company I can recall the global hunt for programmers who could do what I needed, trying to pay as little as I could for high quality output. I went through 5 teams in India before giving up. Their culture just doesn't work with the way I work. I eventually had to hire 2 Americans and a bunch of Ukrainians. I had to pay the Americans $70-125/hr and they were fully remote, but it's what it cost to get their expertise. I in turn was making about $1000/hr off the work everyone working for me was doing (combined for them all), so it was worth it to me.
@@scottmcvicker4971so true lol😂
More isolation
Isolation from coworkers can be a productive thing buddy
Hybrid
@@planetaryion hybrid is worse case... didn't you watch the video?
People love not interacting with people lol. It’s ridiculous. They just wanna watch Maury and collect a pay check and say they’re working.
Who do you help when you work from home? Besides yourself.
Soooooo what happens when the power goes out??? What do you do when you cant type on a keyboard or communicate with anyone else due to no electricity..what happens when your told dont run your computer cuz im charging my car and the government says we are only allowed so many kwh ..oh sorry boss my neighborhood is part of the rolling blackout plan to save the climate and i cant make that meeting that took you months to plan 😂 sooooo many things much much bigger than your feelings to concider
Power can go out at the office to you fool...
Just outsource their job to cheaper countries
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Hybrid!
Most companys will not return to the office, unfortunately some employee's can't handle it.
what about businesses instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars every month on office space. they can spend way less on smaller spaces.
10:00 she hits a nail that on the head!! It's all about bad management
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