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Depends on what the job was - jobs that need you to be onsite, need you to be onsite. I dunno what the precautions are like though, when I was working in the hatchery, it was a bloody nightmare, colds went round mega-fast because of all the recirc air, can't imagine what those places have been like since COVID.Good job for you Steve , what would you do if you were a manufacturer ?
I don't think anyone is saying that people that can't WFH should. All the debate I've seen is about office workers having to come back in, which seems a total waste of time.
If, as has been found in a lot of cases, productivity remains the same or increases when wfh, the only rationale for getting workers back is to protect those companies with large real estate holdings - case in point: My other half is an international tax specialist for a telecoms company, they are being mandated back to the office 2 days, rising to 3, when the person she works most closely with is in India......
I think those companies will be outflanked by more agile smaller companies/startups who can see the benefit in not having office rental overheads and will be able to offer better salaries to lure talent away.
These "productive water cooler conversations" being talked about by office based companies to get workers back in are pure rubbish, people do not talk about work in the break room, they talk about what they saw on telly, who is shagging who and how manger x is a knobhead.....