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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: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 11 2021, @10:38AM (11 children)
If that's what you believe, go right ahead and set your required working conditions accordingly. Just keep in mind your employer is under no obligation to continue your employment if they disagree. And they're not going to have any problem at all replacing you with as many unemployed people as there currently are.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:19PM (7 children)
Posted by someone whose last real job was when exactly?
The world has changed. Should have happened a decade ago because the technology was available then, but there’s a lot of inertia to overcome.
Stick to playing around with Perl and slash - obsolete is your speed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:54PM (1 child)
What exactly is a real job, dear?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:17PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:04PM (3 children)
The world can change back. We'll see what changes are permanent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:29PM (1 child)
Hard to justify when many people are both happier and more productive.
Especially given the large portion of the population that won’t get vaccinated, and the smaller population that vaccines don’t generate sufficient immune response.
Working from home will also make the next pandemic less impactful on the economy. We’ve had 3 coronavirus infections crossing over to humans in the last 20 years. It was just luck that the previous ones (SARS-COV-1, MERS) weren’t full blown pandemics .
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @10:16PM
In other words, the last pandemic of this seriousness was a century ago. It's just luck we had another since.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:38PM
Change is always permanent. That's why you can't go home again.
For example, PHBs can make monkeys play video games with their brains, eventually they'll be rewired to cut&paste in modern languages, and all you script kiddies will be out of work, reminiscing about the good old days.
Mongo only pawn, in cruel game of life.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 11 2021, @11:56PM
So you're saying I should be someone else's dancing monkey, why? I'm not a chicken-shit like you. I'm willing to take greater risks for greater rewards and self-determination.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by sjames on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:43PM (2 children)
But if the employers are smart, they won't press the issue at this time. There are plenty of others applying for jobs, many of them were deadwood that got cut loose at the first good excuse (tough economic times, there's a pandemic you know). If the employee wanting to keep working from home was deadwood, they would have already been dumped. So if they decide to leave, there's a better than 50% chance the replacement hire will be deadwood on arrival.
It's also worth considering for employers that if the employees dutifully return to the office, they may well do so with one foot out the door. They'll either find a work from home job elsewhere or become deadwood over the next couple years.
If employers were any good at management, they'd throw a party if the union went on a rulebook strike.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 11 2021, @11:57PM (1 child)
Plenty of unemployed people were not deadwood. Labor is most certainly not a seller's market at the moment.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday April 12 2021, @02:44AM
Sure, about half are not deadwood. Thus the 50% chance.
As the economy bounces back, it's going to get harder to find good hires. A bad time to have a bunch of employees with one foot out the door.