How employers can handle workers' reluctance to return to the office 

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I wouldn't have an issue with it if I lived nearby, but I don't. I live an hour away from my company's HQ and the traffic is absolutely horrible going up.

It saves money to remote too. I used to have to spend money commuting and a lunch in the office (no time to make my own). I’ve saved probably more than a thousand dollars remoting last year.

Ali Mizan: I agree with you 100%.

I think employees forget who the work for. Meaning if your employer requires you in the office a few days a week, then go. Otherwise, find another job.

@@jimziemer474 ok boomer

Classic lazy snowflake that got used to laying at home and going out to eat all day 😂😂😂 Time for work snowflake the vacation is over.

@@marcus4554 Who says they're not working? They're working from home. With 21st Century technology, there's no reason why workers can't work from home, provided, of course, the nature of their job allows them to do so.

@@rickarnold6825 The owners of these businesses apparently 💁‍♂️💁‍♂️ If you dont like working in society and being apart of society..You can stay home. But dont think you're gonna paid good pay to sit on the sidelines and be a stranger over the internet. Vacation time is done 💁‍♂️

@@mikea22875 Try NYC's L.I.E. on a very bad day. You'll know what I mean.

@@marcus4554 Yet it's my understanding that many remote workers *do* make good money. In any event, at the end of the day, we'll have to agree to disagree on this. As I said in a prior post, I don't work remotely, so I really don't have a dog in this fight, so to speak. However, for those who want to work from home and are able to, I'm happy for them.

Amen

Amen #2

RIGHT!!!!

I'll be looking for another job soon as they want back to office. Too many job openings and more flexible companies out there nowadays

even worse: I'm supposed to just commute to move my laptop from one wifi to another 15km away.

I'm happy for you mate.

your CEO sounds awesome

As a fellow software developer who's also putting in insane hours working from home - I wholeheartedly agree.

@@JC-gd3cc Are you an idiot? Are you unable to see or understand that EFFECTIVE and successful work is being accomplished by remote workers?

well said

Nailed it!!

I agree. If companies allow telecommuting they will just hire cheaper help from overseas. More American jobs will go overseas. People just don’t get it.

I think it’s mostly the boomer management. They should at least entertain a hybrid approach, let those that want to remote, remote. They could even save money by renting less office space.

Classic example of why you dont give people free stuff. When you treat them too well they'll get lazy and demand easy pay and no work

@@charliedallachie3539 Yes, and if these managers can't handle remote work, at least work out a compromise, e.g., allow workers to work from home 2-3 days a week, and from the office the balance of the week.

Yeah, I hear you, my coworker decided not to let me know that I left my vacuum out but he also decided to let my supervisor know. And this isn't the first time he's done something like that. The joys of the workplace.

Exactly, coworkers are not your friends.

Probably because of the commercial real estate leases and property companies have. Remember their responsibility is to investors not employees. Their not going to keep paying for an empty building because employees want to work from home.Those ppl are replaceable. Also many large companies own or are invested in commercial real estate companies as well. Once again, they’re not going to take that loss for employees.

@@CatEyedGoddess #dontgobacktowork

It gets people out of the house which is healthy in many ways. It’s not cool to just shut yourself in all day everyday and never leave the house. Think of what it is like for others (if you live in shared arrangement) to never have privacy, freedom, or alone time. That’s not fair. Go out and get some fresh air, and get over yourselves. Some people had no choice but to go to a location every day and bust their ass and you people are crying about having to leave the house. It’s absolutely pathetic.

@@smokesativas if people live in a share space and Don’t seem to get along that sounds like a boundary issue. . I am pretty sure people who like to work from home get out every single day. People don’t need to be in an office everyday and commuting when work can be done from home. I say If I want to see people I call my friends and we hang out after work. Leaving the house in a late afternoon to take a run or going to the gym is more rewarding than commuting to a cubicle. If you are one of those who need to be stuck in a cubicle kudos to you. Not everyone likes being stuck in a cubicle and yes some jobs require you to be physically there and those that require have no choice but if you are behind a screen and you got home access then it doesn’t make sense. And yes you are absolutely pathetic your and you statement makes no sense .

@@smokesativas So true.

well said

WFH could potentially make your job to be outsourced since is proving it can be done outside. Plenty of America company has recently started outsourcing job, WFH makes them easier to justify and pay someone less to do the same task.

@@lAlwaysHopel If the company could outsource they probably already are. It wouldn't get people into an office either.

​@@lAlwaysHopel They're gonna do it either way

Yeah, I agree. This is the future for those wanting to pursue a career in software engineering such as myself. I am okay with going into the office physically once in a while, but not 5 days a week.

Many young people and some old after seeing people die during the last 1.5 years, now realize wasting a big portion of their waking hours daily for 43 years in commute is just not worth it. Many will leave their jobs while they get pulled back in the office even for a paycut.

These companies are ran by psychopaths who thrive off of the forced social interaction of people kissing their asses in person. They cannot bear the thought of a remote work environment. They need to drink your tears in person.

@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 You make an excellent point.

It’s probably because of commercial real estate and leases they hold. They’re not going to keep paying for an empty building. And if a large amount of ppl work from home, they will take a financial loss on the commercial property. A company is not going to take that L so ppl can WFH.

Thank you for your hard work during the pandemic. It's also clear that too many people don't care about how overworked the medical front line (like yourself) are.

Exactly, it used to take maybe 4 or 5 apps, now it's 200+ and still no guarantee of a job. Crazy times.

@@jew_world_order its pathetic but those that are willing to do that may get the job. There are too many people around and constantly having children using no protection. This drives down the salaries as years go by with increasing population comes lower wages.

@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 that's patently false. Wages are at all time highs along with population. Economics isn't rocket science, but you're not factoring in several variables.

@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard it’s greed pure and simple it’s all about pure unadulterated greed they didn’t want to give out higher wages but popular opinion would have cost them more so to get back at certain minorities they raised the price of everything so that the so called raise wouldn’t do much good. They say it blatantly all the time, “we had to raise prices to account for the raise in employees salaries”. GREED GREED GREED

@@kalel8736 I don't like how things are but dont be naive too many rich people and too many poor each year as the number of their children increase rent middle class is being squeezed to death especially the rich like Bill Gates...etc should not be having children as they consume all the resources.

public restrooms, public microwave, yap yap yap, interruptions.....

@superfuresh so your saying either bend for corporate America or be homeless? Lols

@superfuresh stop. Haha

@superfuresh lols Ded

I wish these boomer managers/leaders would just retire already.

@@craigbowen4659 Yeah exactly. I wouldn't mind coming in if I was only a few minutes away from the office, but I am not. I'm an hour and a half away and trying to save money up to get an apartment by the end of this year.

@@mikea22875 same. These work from home slobs are ruining everything and they expect every one in the neighborhood to respect them and make no noise. I take my dirt bike out everyday just to make them upset

@@mikea22875 "Go back to work." Eh,... they HAVE been working?

@@mikea22875 "How can people be burned out when they haven’t been to the office in over a year" So people cannot be burned out from wfh? knowledge workers still work hard :D, only that they are more productive, less interrupted and spent less money working from home

@@mikea22875 I got burned out working round the clock on two web development projects AT HOME. Thankfully that was temporary, but I got a nice fat paycheck from that. Man, some people can get so envious when we achieve our dreams to work from home

@@mikea22875 I have people in my place who work 12 h days from home .. how is that not real ? is the computer in the office magic or something ?

Companies can also save money by hiring people overseas or in cheaper markets that will work for less. Be careful what you wish for.

@@jimziemer474 OK Boomer

@@jimziemer474 That doesn't mean it's advantageous to do so necessarily - and if your job is so important that one can't work from home if the job allows, then hy outsource, which is entirely remote?

@@jimziemer474 Nothing has stopped companies of doing so since the invention of the internet. If they haven't fully changed to that business must be for a reason.

@@Gabriela_Flores Yeah they also always threatened robots and yet... Why aren't all the fast food workers out and food service robots in by now? Almost seems like there's limitations on that that outweighs the benefits, so it's an empty threat to pressure employees to put up with garbage.

​@@craigbowen4659 The cooperate bully types also want people to come in so they can get their supply and lord over them "in their place." Yeah, half the problem is toxic office politics which is shut off 95% - 100% at home. Without worker drones all huddled together in an office, these office psychos can't hold "court." So now, the best they can do is semi-bully people back to the office, but most aren't stupid enough to fully do so....they still gotta make that office life "appealing", and they're not going to achieve that by being their normal, wretched selves away from the office, trying to persuade others how "wonderful" it is, and the "economy." Won't someone pleeeese think of the economyyyy? They are whining for a simple reason. The little guys keep them filthy rich by partaking in things from gas, hotel, travel, etc. They NEED "their inferior pawns" to be where they are, and when the inferior pawns don't cooperate, they suffer. The thing with these mental freaks is the added bonus of not being able to empathize, adapt, or see into the future long term, and see what's working. All they care about is money. If their money isn't coming in as it once was, and if it's not benefiting them by means they know, it's bad. That's it. That's all they know, and the only foresight they can possibly think of is: Get back to square 1. How? They don't care, but get back to square 1. It kills me how these CEO's, and people like them who thrive off of toxic workplace interaction are talking as if they will end up forcing people to return to the office whether they want it or not, and they are soooo sure that people will blindly return to their place, which reeks of slave-like undertones. They are 100% right when they say psychopaths/sociopaths saturate the top in the cooperate world. These personality types are too dense to realize that their demands, and cocky assurance that complete strangers will just blindly follow their demands to benefit their greed turns most people off, and disgusts them. Which I guess is a boon for the rest of us. Let these CEOs show their true colors, so people can get the heck outta dodge. These personality types not only want the "trickle down" to help fuel auto, gas, food, travel, it's something else entirely. In addition, these kinds of people get no dopamine supply from Facetime, Skype, chat rooms, phone calls, texts, Zoom, etc. It doesn't provide the face to face contact they crave. That's the main issue here. It has been found and studied that these personalty types NEED real-time, interaction to get their "fix" so to speak. They NEED to be the ones looking over hundreds of people at work and feel like kings/queens, they NEED to actually place their hand on your shoulder, smell what fragrance you're wearing, hear your footsteps in the their same place of existence. They NEED to be able to see the outfit your wearing, compete with your outfit, copy it, tear it down, and make little snide remarks, corrections and banter. They NEED that face to face competition you get surrounded by crowds of people. They NEED to get their ego boost by holding court, and making examples out of people, or reprimanding others in front of the right people to get their fix. They NEED those over glorified social lunches to brown nose, gossip, or look down on their underlings. Yes, technically, this can all be done virtually, with a hella-lotta spine-bending work, but it's just not the same as in real life, and the effort to try and halfway replicate this virutally just isn't worth the squeeze. And besides, home is private domain. Once you think of trying to start treating people like trash, try and dole out abuse, and set up convoluted demands in people's own home over the internet, and things are DOCUMENTED to the letter, things can get REAL ugly, REAL quickly. So these types of horrible bosses aren't going to risk that, they want you IN their domain in real time. And when certain people don't get this interaction, they LOATHE it. THAT'S why they want their supply (people) back to the plantation. Another thing is this, a tank full of human sharks eat each other alive. They NEED more placid-mannered people to bounce off of, and they are too stupid to realize they are chasing them away, and not only that, the more placid people have a MEANS to get away from them. I encourage people to work from home, or own their own business. The old business model of hundreds of people crammed into a building to make some trickle down b.s. work is asinine these days. WFH simply works, and it took a freaking pandemic for the world to realize it. Oops.

@@ARedMagicMarker agreed

Never started

More than you would think. I’ve done it.

@@jimziemer474 OK Boomer

They are so out of touch my God lol

Then leave it & someone else will.

You don’t have to take anything. You are free to quit anytime.

@@DesireeEagle OK Boomer

@@jimziemer474 OK Boomer

@@mikea22875 OK Boomer

Exactly. Thought the same thing. Start the conditioning allllll over again lol .

Any suggestions....

They want people to kiss their ass in person 🤣

Glassman 153: I hear what you're saying about the legal field. The days of being a slave to the law library have been gone for a while. Thanks to WestLaw, lawyers, paralegals, etc. can sit at home and do their legal research on the internet and draft briefs and other papers on their word processors. Even trial attorneys can work this way. Of course, matters like witness interviews, conferences, hearings, trials, etc. still require appearances. That said, and as you note, those kind of activities do not entail an inordinate amount of time.

ur fired

@@kheindl100 good lol

@@jennywinter3025 And watch their face get all shocked and sour when they find you don't gaf. XD

yup, you are not responsible for the financial success of the commercial landlord

they built the stupid open offices and cubicle nonsense, they can have it.

B-B-B-BUT....YOU'RE PART OF SOCIETY!!!!! IT *IS* YOUR RESPONSIBILITY! DON'T MAKE US TOSS YOU IN THE OCEAN SO YOU NO LONGER ENJOY LIFE BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO FIX IDIOT'S PROBLEMS!

If my employer cut my pay, I would cut my productivity to match... simple as that....eventually all these "enforcers" will be left in the dust. No need to take my laptop from my home wifi to the office wifi..... I will push back to see what happens. Everyone is replaceable, at least that is what we are told from every direction. They can have their downfall if they want to continue with this nonsense...

Considering how these bankers are among the lowest of the criminals in society. Many criminals wont even rob steal something from a poor person but a banker will steal the pension benefits of the widow/orphan after a veteran dies.

😂😂 wow, I read that as “wear less” at first. But this is 💯

Exactly

Me too

I agree. I like 100% WFH, but with me having my own office at work and it being pretty autonomous work, I don't mind going in 2-3 days a week IF I didn't have a commute of 50 minutes one way. My old job was only 10 minutes from home; that would have been better, but I hated that job. Point is...for a lot of people, it's the commute more than anything. Even if I listen to audiobooks so it doesn't feel like as much of a waste of time, it's still tiring and unnecessary.

@@Micro_Learning I am the same way. I would not have a problem going into office if I only live a few mins away, but I live an hour away and since companies are really pushing to force people to return in-person, I will be in traffic for probably two hours every day whereas I can do my job from home easily and not destroy the Earth's atmosphere. Besides, I work as a software developer so no thank you.

@@OverDrive804 I'm similar to you. My job is in education technology at a university. My team and I are able to do everything remotely with meetings via Zoom. The school just wants us there for who knows what reason. I agree about all the benefits: less wear & tear on cars, less gas expense. People get more sleep and are actually more awake when they do work. People are able to cook more and thus eat better. It's a shame that all these benefits are ignored.

M: Completely agree with you on this, but I’d recommend you do yourself a favor and don’t wait until they notify you that you’ll have to come back, unless you have several months worth of income saved. Two weeks is kind of fast to have to find a new position.

@@tvdavis Money are not a problem, I can survive around 6 months without a job.

Agreed! Here in the RGV (south Texas), we always have some of the lowest gas prices in the country and we are now bordering on $3/gallon

Ask your GP for a reasonable accommodation letter to work from home to protect your health. Because you performed all your essential functions from home for 2 years your employer doesn't have a case against your request. People are winning court cases on this.