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My experience is that it is roughly a wash.  I save about 30 minutes each way on commute (door to desk). I also save time not going to and from meetings (about 5-10 minutes of travel time depending on which building the meeting is in).  On the flip side, I'm interrupted more frequently. I find that I get easily distracted in meetings that are not face to face, and the whole mute/unmute thing leads to a less natural conversation.  Lastly, the challenges of informal consultation with colleagues nearby "Has anyone seen X before?" is annoying.  Maybe that could be mitigated if we had a team active on slack (or the google equivalent, hangouts), but people don't seem to use it except as an alternative to texting.

Even once we are cleared from the SiP order, I expect my company would revert to either "work from home is recommended" or "work from home if you want to".  It already was fairly permissive in terms of remote work, and I would guess half my colleagues worked from home on Fridays.

I expect the trend towards "open office plans" to revert rather quickly.  That's our setup, and I could see the company going back to assigned desks and cubes and/or offices.

This will be a big boon to telehealth, which has been slow to being adopted.  Obviously, not all visits can be converted to telehealth, but a lot can, and I expect they will.

BC

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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/14/212...eal-estate

She predicts that 30 percent of people will work from home multiple days per week within a couple of years. Lister added that there has been pent-up demand by employees for greater work-life flexibility, and that the coronavirus has made their employers see the light, especially as they themselves have had to work from home.

Before COVID-19 "only about 4 percent of the US workforce working from home at least half the time."

BC

[BostonCard]

My experience is that it is roughly a wash.  I save about 30 minutes each way on commute (door to desk). I also save time not going to and from meetings (about 5-10 minutes of travel time depending on which building the meeting is in).  On the flip side, I'm interrupted more frequently. I find that I get easily distracted in meetings that are not face to face, and the whole mute/unmute thing leads to a less natural conversation.  Lastly, the challenges of informal consultation with colleagues nearby "Has anyone seen X before?" is annoying.  Maybe that could be mitigated if we had a team active on slack (or the google equivalent, hangouts), but people don't seem to use it except as an alternative to texting.

Even once we are cleared from the SiP order, I expect my company would revert to either "work from home is recommended" or "work from home if you want to".  It already was fairly permissive in terms of remote work, and I would guess half my colleagues worked from home on Fridays.

I expect the trend towards "open office plans" to revert rather quickly.  That's our setup, and I could see the company going back to assigned desks and cubes and/or offices.

This will be a big boon to telehealth, which has been slow to being adopted.  Obviously, not all visits can be converted to telehealth, but a lot can, and I expect they will.

BC

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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/14/212...eal-estate

She predicts that 30 percent of people will work from home multiple days per week within a couple of years. Lister added that there has been pent-up demand by employees for greater work-life flexibility, and that the coronavirus has made their employers see the light, especially as they themselves have had to work from home.

Before COVID-19 "only about 4 percent of the US workforce working from home at least half the time."

BC