<story><title>Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees</title><url>https://time.com/6294640/remote-work-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>WFH should have been the norm for tech and office white collar workers since 2000. For decades, I&amp;#x27;ve been scratching my head as to why can&amp;#x27;t software people just work from the comfort of their own home and their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregd</author><text>I have been fortunate enough to work from home since early 2000s.  For many reasons I don&amp;#x27;t want to use my own hardware for doing that though.  The main one being e-discovery. If your company is forced to go through a discovery process, if you&amp;#x27;ve accessed company resources via your personal hardware, it becomes part of that discovery process.  Additionally, licensing issues crop up, etc.&lt;p&gt;But it doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me that companies who are forcing people into the office are having a hard time recruiting.  If Covid showed us anything, it was that we could all work from home and be just as productive, if not more so, doing it.&lt;p&gt;IMHO, forcing me into an office is actually a punishment.  Why punish me for the high cost of your real estate?</text></comment>
<story><title>Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees</title><url>https://time.com/6294640/remote-work-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>WFH should have been the norm for tech and office white collar workers since 2000. For decades, I&amp;#x27;ve been scratching my head as to why can&amp;#x27;t software people just work from the comfort of their own home and their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>If a company requires me to bring my own hardware they better offer a &amp;quot;sign on bonus&amp;quot; equivalent to the cost of said hardware. Coz I ain&amp;#x27;t gonna install whatever corporate Spyware they require to be installed onto my hardware. Heck even their corporate hardware sits on a separate vlan that has no access except to the internet.</text></comment>