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on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:43AM
from the home-is-where-the-heart^W-office-is? dept.
from the home-is-where-the-heart^W-office-is? dept.
34% of WFH (work from home) workers say they'd rather quit than return to full-time office work:
A new survey of WFH (work-from-home) employees suggests that many are not yet ready to return to the office. In fact, they may never be ready.
The survey found that 34% of WFH respondents say they would rather quit than return to a full-time office job.
The survey was published by staffing firm Robert Half. It involved more than 1,000 adult employees of US companies, all of whom are currently working from home due to the pandemic.
As mentioned above, more than 1 in 3 said they would look for a new job if they had to again work in the office full time.
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34% of WFH (Work From Home) Workers Say They'd Rather Quit Than Return to Full-Time Office Work
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday April 11 2021, @07:25AM (7 children)
I've never had to stay at home, and I'd rather quit than do that. Working from home is awful for me: there's the wife, the kid, the cats annoying me, and - most importantly - home time is not for work. It's entirely psychological, I know. But when I'm home, I'm not at work. That's always how it's been for me.
Also, if I was to provide an office space with heating, electricity and internet in my house to work, I sure as hell would expect the company to cover my expenses. Because I can see the obvious scam coming from a miles away with that one: the company telling their employees to work from home without any compensation (because hey, we let you stay at home, what are you complaining about?) or else. Well I don't think so...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @07:55AM
You're dead to me and your Internet privileges are hereby revoked!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by krishnoid on Sunday April 11 2021, @07:59AM (1 child)
That's the obvious scam? I thought it would be what this guy [npr.org] pulled off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @10:37AM
How's that a scam? He was just doing what his bosses do except maybe better:
I suspect the employees of the Chinese consulting firm weren't being paid 50 grand annually...
Lots of US WFH workers can be replaced with cheaper and better workers from other countries.
If companies have difficulty figuring out who to hire maybe they can hire that US "scam" worker to identify good workers or outsourcing firms, seems like he's good at it ;).
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:46PM
Work from home has allowed many people to really scale back spending, so much so that now that they want to spend money on home improvements since they’re spending more time there anyway, there’s a shortage of wood, from 2x4s to decking to in-ground swimming pools. Even bicycles, bike tires and tubes, are back ordered. And we’re going to see trillions more stimulus.
Throw in the billions in private investment as companies remove their dependence on Chinese manufacturing for critical goods, and its going to be a repeat of the Roaring 20s after the 1918 pandemic.
And let’s not forget the benefits of cheaper green energy over the next decade. More jobs taken away from foreign oil producers and moved to local wind and solar projects and grid upgrades.
And spending to combat the effects of global overheating and its consequences.
Boom times are coming. Just not for downtown office towers and the businesses dependent on them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:00PM
There’s a diverse in your future. Why not embrace it now instead of making everyone miserable?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:47PM
I don't know your pay scale or neighborhood restrictions, but a nice office for one sized trailer can be had for $40k or less, and it is clearly 100% work related expense for tax purposes.
Quiet, self contained, and if the family is poorly behaved you can relocate it somewhere nice just far enough away...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @07:01PM
Are you sure you’ve thought this through? If you quit rather than work from home, aren’t you stuck at home anyway? If you’re going to be stuck at home anyway? Isn’t it better to at least have a job than to be looking for one? If just for the better pay?