To continue to work remotely or go back to the office – that is the question

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Dude, I don’t care if you are working at home, PUT ON SOME PANTS!!!
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To continue to work remotely or go back to the office – that is the question.

Actually, there is not much to question even if Hamlet never attended a Zoom meeting.

When surveyed, three thousand workers at roughly forty-five companies preferred to continue working remotely even if offered a $30,000 raise to return to working at the office.

Unclear, however, is how many of these working remotely workers were both working at home as well as had children who were learning remotely.

Reasons why varied as well as tended to vary by age.  Even so, most of the reasons ultimately revolved around not carrying to deal with others or nonsense at the office. 

Granted, while many appear to miss their work friends, such did not overcome the usual sorts of office crap or the time wasted by others that keep them from getting their work done.

Work – the course of the Drinking Class!
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After all, study after study over the years have found that the actual time spent working during an eight-hour workday ran around five hours and thus eliminating distractions at the office could free up all sorts of time even before factoring in time wasted commuting.

Even so, Quincy Quincy suspects a little disingenuousness in the responses as there was no mention of how working remotely facilitated day drinking whereas the office water cooler only offers water and office gossip.

That and how an earlier study claims to have found an all but opposite desire to return to the office.

In other words, the grass is always greener at someone else’s remote workplace.

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