Jeff Stahler for August 12, 2021

Stahler seems to have missed that banks (among others) are requiring their employees to return to the office. And Google’s talking about paying you less if you telecommute from a city other than where the office is.

Last year, the Republican Party Of Trump wanted to sacrifice your grandparents — for the sake of the economy, remember?

This year, they want to sacrifice your children. Now that The Messiah is out of office, they don’t even give a reason.

I wonder who will visit the museums when humans go extinct in the future?

And there is the rest that have been in the office and on the job the entire time.

Along with no masks, these “modern workers” wear a badge: Anti Vexer.

There has definitely been a shift that appears to be more or less permanent, whereby more people will work remotely, either all the time or in many cases just certain days.

The covid cowards not withstanding, the bulk of the population feels safe in their work space, which of course has taken precautions. The shift I speak of isn’t driven by safety concerns but by common sense. Many places realized that they could allow employees to work remotely (all the time or some of the time) without sacrificing productivity. The employee obviously benefits from this as does the employer as they can reduce the size of their office space. For example, my SIL works for a company that was housed in two very large mill buildings that they converted into offices. Having found they can allow employees to work from home most of the time they have just sold one of the two buildings which will be converted in to a mixed-use building that includes some retail on the ground level and housing units above. Everybody wins.

It’s one of the silver linings of covid. :)

There are jobs in our plant that require a physical presence. The jobs in my area do not. Yet there are some members of the team who choose to come into the office.

I think the choice depends on the nature of the work and the temperament of the people. As a natural-born hermit and data analyst, my work fits a work at home model perfectly.

Yet the come-into-the-office workers have complaints about those who stay at home. They feel that they should be paid extra because of the effort.

Part of this feeling is justified in that they do have higher expenses, but that is not the company’s doing. More of the feeling is perception. I can tell by date stamps on emails and am in a position to measure at least the volume of the work people do. There is no difference between those in the office and those at home.

I sort of get a pass in that my job is entirely different than other members of the team: we just happen to report to the same boss.

Less driving = better for the Earth. If your work is 100% computer use, there is no reason why you should be driving to another building. I love WFH.

Can we put up a display for “politicians that represent all constituents”? Cause all I see are politicians that represent their wealthy donors.