<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&amp;#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.&lt;p&gt;Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&amp;#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&amp;#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&amp;#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>34% being unwilling to work in offices does not imply not the 66% prefer to work in offices.  It is entirely possible (however unlikely) that 100% of people &lt;i&gt;prefer&lt;/i&gt; to work remotely but that 34% &lt;i&gt;demand&lt;/i&gt; it.  You just can&amp;#x27;t infer anything about the preferences of the 66% based on the preferences of the 34%.&lt;p&gt;Some jobs have to be done in person, sure.  But some jobs don&amp;#x27;t.  Personally the extra two hours a day and reduced stress more than make up for the lack of face-to-face meeting time with my coworkers.&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine is in software sales.  She doesn&amp;#x27;t need to physically be in an office &lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt;.  There are a lot of office jobs that can be done remotely.</text></comment>
<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&amp;#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.&lt;p&gt;Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&amp;#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&amp;#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&amp;#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inc.com&amp;#x2F;melanie-curtin&amp;#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benbristow</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard enough in software engineering IMHO.&lt;p&gt;What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now&lt;p&gt;* Send a Slack message&amp;#x2F;email and wait an arbitrary amount of time for a response.&lt;p&gt;* Organise a Skype&amp;#x2F;Teams&amp;#x2F;whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.&lt;p&gt;I spend a stupid amount of time having blocked stories&amp;#x2F;tasks because I need to clarify some criteria&amp;#x2F;parts of it and the people I need to speak to are difficult to reach because they&amp;#x27;re busy&amp;#x2F;AFK.</text></comment>