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I can't do my job from home, I have to go in to the plant. The upside is I've had a job this whole time. The downside is my coworkers are in different social bubbles so there was the risk of one of them catching the virus. But one good thing about my workplace is they monitor everyone for symptoms and anyone who shows signs of sickness is sent home until they get better.
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@All my Mizore, I mean I get that a lot of office jobs can be done from home. The problem is, despite what anybody says, you don't WORK 40hrs a week at home. Not saying it's done in the office either but literally everyone I've talked to about it says productivity dropped while remote working. A combination of distractions at home, finishing early, taking long lunch, etc. on top of the fact that things that can be verbally communicated or physically shown in person needs to be emailed or talked through over the phone. It definitely wasn't easy for me, working in construction management. Also, another reason to not have to leave the house pushes 1 step closer to being chair ridden like those fatasses in Wall-E, slurping slushier from a chair mounted straw and never going outside. Jokes about "that's the life" aside, humanity is already sliding towards individual isolationism and physical decay of our bodies. That's my opinion, I await arguments about how I'm super wrong and stupid.
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@Drunk Pantless Uncle, You’re not super wrong and stupid haha but as far as the companies I’m aware of, employees and productivity have thrived working from home. Where my brother works they are now going to give more people the option of working from home for most of the work week. I think it’s great, if you can be equally or more productive at home than you should be able to have that flexibility.
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@Drunk Pantless Uncle, premise for Wall-E was the Earth was fvcked because of human wastelessness/carelessness. At least teleworking slows that down. But yeah, some people would rather, and do perform better in an office. And teleworking definantly works better if you get paid for your work, not your hours.
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@All my Mizore, yeah, like @Insane Old Lady, mentioned, I have heard some people work better at home and it helps with work/life balance as far as being able to be home when the kids get home or maybe start dinner a little earlier if it only takes you away from your desk for a few minutes. Hell even the gas/commute times saving are great. Like you said, what I've heard is people do less work when completely unsupervised and surrounded by distractions. Even if you take all that away and say an employee works 30-35 hours (realistically) from home, my opinion still stands that you should have to go to the office a few times a week to get you the fvck out of the house and to work on professional relationships. To me, this is no different than the effect social media and internet dating has had on relationships because so many millennials and gen z have a panic attack when they have to meet someone new or talk to a group because they can't type, edit, delete their thoughts in real time.
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