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[jeffster]

Am I alone in thinking people are getting way too comfortable by thinking working from home is the future of everything? This is a neoliberal capitalist society/world. Employers want to know what you are doing all the time. I honestly don't see this lasting, but maybe it's different for the code monkeys out there. There are still a lot of industries that will need to rely on office space, be it fields in engineering, conceptual software design, architecture, bioscience etc.

Yeah, there is only so much you can do on Zoom. I think people like 'working from home' because they can basically do what they need to do without much consequence.

To give you an example: my current place of employment is split --- some of use have to come in, and some don't. With that, one of the guys that comes in recently got a dog, and needs to take it for a walk, so he has to punch out at lunch, and punch back in when he gets back -- this is to ensure he's not taking too much time on his lunch break. OTOH, I have a co-worker that can work from home. They live around the corner from me -- and being that I have a 20 day work rotation, I am home during the day for 9 days out of 20. There has been a number of times when I leave to go shopping or take someone to an appointment, they're out there walking their dog at 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, whenever.

That's a divide and lack of equality between workers. Eventually companies will catch on, and require people to start coming in again.