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Originally Posted by djforsberg
You are wrong. Everyone has their own anecdotal evidence but as I said before, I have seen the numbers myself and heard it straight from mangers and executives and have been following industry trends. Workers who are happy are productive. Some may be happier in the office but overall, WFH has been a success where I am and in a lot more other places than not. I’m not sure what industries you naysayers work in but I guarantee that people who want to work from home in IT will be able to negotiate that moving forward. This pandemic revealed a lot of employment bullshit from this office stuff to showing just how meaningless a lot of low paid work is and it’s not going to be easy to take these things away from workers and make people go back to the way things were.
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I also work in IT, and let me say that software development (and the people who work in it) are a totally different group of people than most other industries. I do believe that developers and many associated roles can effectively work from home...but that's like, what 1-2% of the Canadian workforce? There are certainly other roles that can be effective remotely (and independently), but you are making the mistake of applying anecdotal evidence (and it is that, even if there is evidence, because you are trying to apply one type of job to the majority when job conditions are very different) to everyone else.
Just please listen to others and appreciate their experience, and I will do the same for you. For some, WFH is better than the office. For some, it's about the same. For others, it is worse overall (even if better for the individual), and for others, it is worse for both the individual and group.