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Kate 18:28 on 2021-11-12 Permalink Reply  

• Tim S. 11:56 on 2021-11-13 Permalink

  I’m really disappointed by this. If people need to be in-person for their jobs, or prefer it (me for both), sure let them go back if it’s safe. But for so many people working from home has been transformative, giving them time and money back in their lives. When Plante says “C’est un signal fort pour la reprise économique du centre-ville” it means that people who have been doing their jobs perfectly well for 18 months have to be miserable, waste their time and money, because she can’t imagine an economy that doesn’t depend on keeping the food courts and Van Houtte’s in business. This is what it’s come to, our society, mobilized to defend Tiki-Ming.

• david4822 12:58 on 2021-11-13 Permalink

  ^ At my work, we’ve seen our productivity go way down with people working from home, and we’re not thinking of Van Houtte or Tiki-Ming.

• Kevin 18:22 on 2021-11-13 Permalink

  David
  What do you do for a living?

• LM 20:27 on 2021-11-13 Permalink

  It could certainly be industry specific. I think productivity has gone up in the companies I’ve worked at, but I changed jobs over the summer and my new boss/company owner is a huge micro-manager. He mandated we all return to the office 5 days a week in August. We (his employees) are stand-ins for his social life…he asks tons of personal questions, but you have to play nice because he’s your boss (no, there is no HR…he is HR). It’s take it or leave it. I’m waiting it out till I hit the one-year mark. Then I’ll start looking for another job.

  Work from home might help with improving the environment. On a personal level, I was able to save much more money, eat healthier, and I had more time with my family. Our hours are 9 to 6 pm….by the time I get home at 6:45, I just want to eat something from a microwave. Sure, some people like to batch cook on Sunday…it’s not my thing.

  I guess there’s pressure to get back to some sort of status quo. Most of my colleagues are new graduates so they don’t know any better and go along with our boss’s weird demands and questions. I would love for my next opportunity to offer hybrid as an option for better work-life balance.

• Kate 19:00 on 2021-11-14 Permalink

  LM, a lot of bosses still don’t feel you’re working unless they can have you under their eye. I think a lot of managers don’t like writing or reading emails, they’d rather you looked them in the eye and wrote down what they say, which is so damn annoying.

• david227 20:21 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

  I’m an attorney, it’s been very difficult with people out of the office.