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Kate 15:10 on 2021-06-24 Permalink Reply  

• j2 15:47 on 2021-06-24 Permalink

  Banks and insurance companies. I can see the regulatory challenges being harder for them or parts of them and it makes sense, but a lot of the tech workers will get to choose what they want. Many have moved out of Montreal, 2 out of 5 in my team went from NDG and downtown to south shore, another is looking for an hour plus away.

• Kevin 15:49 on 2021-06-24 Permalink

  More of a plea since hardly anyone want to go back full time.

  “Fifty-five per cent of workers downtown would like to go back to the office two or three days a week, and over 20 per cent would like to go back for four or five days.”

  That’s the reality buried past the point most people stop reading: the vast majority would like to work from home most of the week.

• GC 17:35 on 2021-06-24 Permalink

  It’s interesting you titled the thread that way, Kate, as it almost implies we haven’t been working all this time we’ve been doing it from home. (Thought that is likely not your personal belief…) Isn’t there evidence that many have actually been more productive without the office distractions? I do wonder, however, if many have also been working more hours.

• Tim S. 17:54 on 2021-06-24 Permalink

  It says a lot about the lack of imagination in our society’s leadership that people have to do something that makes them miserable because, with over a year to think about it, they can’t conceive of downtown differently than as a collection of service-sectors businesses catering to commuting workers. We must all do our part to save Tiki-Ming!

• Blork 19:17 on 2021-06-24 Permalink

  I’m in no hurry to get back to the office, but primarily because I don’t relish the idea of getting back on buses and the Metro. But I do miss seeing people around the office and the casual chats and whatnot. I also miss the downtown lunches (there were a handful of places I went to frequently and I sooo miss them!) I also miss the after-work 5 à 7s that just don’t happen when you work from home and home isn’t anywhere near most of your friends’ homes.

  Incidentally, I read an article last week (The New Yorker maybe?) in which some apparent experts claimed the ideal number of days per week to work from home is two. As in, work from home two days a week, work at office three days a week. (I forget what exactly their criteria was, but I think it was along the lines of “what will make you happy.”)

  I’m lucky in that my current employer is very flexible and I can do basically whatever I want, so I think I might opt for 3:2 (home:office) with the occasional 4:1 or even 5:0 if I goddamn well feel like it. And yes, I’m aware that not everyone has this privilege.

• JP 00:17 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  Interesting to see the names of the signatories…mostly male and francophone sounding.

• Kate 09:40 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  Mostly members of the Conseil du patronat, but that isn’t surprising.