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34% of WFH (Work From Home) Workers Say They'd Rather Quit Than Return to Full-Time Office Work

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the home-is-where-the-heart^W-office-is? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:

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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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:46PM (#1136003)
    A lot of employers are covering the cost of equipment upgrades, and you’re entitled to write off certain expenses when the company requires you to work from home. Plus, the boom in house prices is being fed in part by working couples saving $1,000 a month on commute costs, parking, on top of the savings by not hitting up the downtown coffee shop every day for an overpriced coffee and bagel.

    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.

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