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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) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:04PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:04PM (#1136008) Journal

    The world has changed.

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:29PM (#1136033)
    People now know that most of the barriers to WFH were arbitrary, and catered to incompetent managers needs and egos.People who don’t want to return to the office won’t, end of story. When told they have to go back to the office, they will ask “why?” And the answers will be obvious bullshit.

    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

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 11 2021, @10:16PM (#1136146) Journal

      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 .

      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

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:38PM (#1136045)

    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.