Mike Myers, the director of Portland’s community safety program, is in charge of reducing gun violence and increasing street safety. This job paid him $208,263 last year, and he manages to do it while working at home. Home, for Myers, happens to be a gated community in Las Vegas, 750 miles from Portland.
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Perhaps it is only a coincidence that Portland has seen the fastest-growing homicide rates in the highest in the nation and the city suffered a record number of homicides in 2022. Or perhaps there are some jobs that just can’t be performed as well at home, at least if that home is hundreds of miles away.
Despite this, a new report predicts that there will be “no noticeable return to office in 2023.” On average, employers would like office workers to come into an office about 2.75 days a week while workers want to come in only about 2.2 days a week. So far, they are compromising at just over 2.5 days.
Among the 50 states, Oregon employers are the third-most flexible, after only Massachusetts and Washington, in allowing employees to work at home, with 86 percent of employers allowing people to work remotely compared with as little as 31 percent in (ironically) Nevada. Out of the nation’s major urban areas, Portland employers are also among the most flexible with 86 percent allowing remote working compared with as little as as little as 36 percent in Riverside, California. Given how unsafe downtown Portland has become under Myers’ watch, it’s not surprising that employers are letting workers stay home: the employers probably want to stay home too.
Most significantly, the report found that companies founded since 2010 are at least 50 percent more likely to allow workers to stay at home than companies founded before 1980. As Stanford economist Nick Bloom points out, this means that work-at-home rates will slowly but steadily rise over time as new companies replace old ones.
That’s the long term, but even in the short term, says the report, “return to office in 2023 has been . . . non-existent.” Transit agencies and downtown property owners who are counting on companies to force people to return to work are likely to be disappointed.
study by the American Psychiatric Association, nearly two-thirds of people who spend at least some time working from home say they’ve felt isolated or lonely from time to time. For 17%, that’s a constant feeling.
Working from home has made you occupied 24/7. No reason you cant call out….
SUre it may rise, but it puts corporate control into your homestead…..indefinitely. There’s many reasons working from home sucks….
1: What’s getting done?: Many CEOs and managers are not in favor of employees working from home because they don’t believe any real work gets done there.
2: Group Effort: You’re now cut off from support of colleagues. When workers think together…. coalescence breeds new ideas and tasks accomplished. That’s why tech firms and new offices use open campus layout replacing the classic cubicle farm.
3: Your mental and physical health declines.
Being at the office is not just great for creativity and collaborative problem-solving, it is also good for your mental health and overall wellbeing. Working from home, communicating sporadically with colleagues across vast distances, can leave you feeling isolated and depressed. THat’s exactly what happened during pandemic. Morale collapsed; Even with communications technology and talking to people thru big Screen’s like Star Trek did not undo the social isolation. In isolation; Motivation plummets and procrastination is your only companion.
On the medical side. Pew survey poll and university Health research show.
– Half Remote workers get no exercise
– one in three suffer skeletal/muscular problems
– Half suffer sleep problems.
– One-third have no real motivation to work.
4: Growth of silos: All work usually depends on teamwork, remote work, solicits none that.
5: Living costs rise: Working from home eliminates commute? Maybe but typically people who work in office settings bring or cater to their own meals. And the office supplies energy/resources for work. Your home is hooked to constant energy and internet demand. Mobile internet skyrockets energy use, because devices aimed as substitutes to actual computers are seen as “efficient” because they’re so small and thin. But the power, speed and data storage limitations of such portable devices is instead shifted to data centers, world wide wireless transmission, satellites and cloud storage centers. Because the data that is to be processed, and the resulting outcome must be transmitted from the end-use device to the data center and back again, the energy use of the network infrastructure also increases.
3G wireless data transmission uses 15x more energy than wifi. 15x more energy per bit of information sipping at a starbucks. 4G uses 23x more energy per bit. 5G uses over 54x more information per bit. 6G will undoubtedly use over 100x.
Power consumption is not only influenced by data rates but also by the type of service provided. For applications such as email, web browsing, and video and audio downloads, short delays may be acceptable. However, for real-time services — videoconferencing, and audio and video streaming or rapid financial data transactions; delay cannot be tolerated and is financially detrimental. This requires a more performant network, and thus more energy use.
Also you have to pay for your own office supplies.
6: Lack Benefits: Many work from home gigs offer zero benefits that regular employees take for granted. We are talking about health insurance, pensions, 401K, and paid vacations. Many remote workers are paid per job or per hour and have to take care of their own health costs and savings plans.
your health declines, your personal costs increase, and your social life takes a nosedive.
sure but that doesn’t mean we should be forcing people to go into the office when the work can be done just as well at home. Even if it’s the worse option it should still be an option. The 6th point is kind of mute regardless since those depend from job to job obviously and more has to do with how those jobs are regulated rather than it being some universal, inherent thing when working from home. And the office floor plan things are billed as that but most employees hate working in them and they do little to foster cooperation or coworker relationships and in the end all they really do is strip away the privacy of the worker.
Vegas communities are actually pretty good. Many people know about Summerlin and The Lakes, but there are newer ones being built that are very affordable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2KsnNG68x0
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103007/"The Super |1991 | R | 1h 35m
Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs.
This is a great resource on remote work here: read AP’s main post and Lazy Reader’s long comment. Bookmark-able.