People Are Revealing The 30 Actual Reasons Companies Don’t Want You To Work From Home

Agreed.

our offices in SA are gradually turning into flats. Not nationalised, but I did propose it to our government.

Noise, smells, bad coffee, waste of time, can't do chores during my break...

That's just smart. Especially these days where the employees don't want free pizza Friday and a 20cent raise. They will quit for better conditions, benefits and not being forced to chit chat with random colleagues is a huge massive bonus. I think it's unreasonable to discuss anything not work related in work. I work there, I don't need friends and I have my own family. To point out any company who mentions we are family, RUN. Most families are toxic and dysfunctional even if pleasant there's always some skeletons. I decline to have my own family or work family part of my daily activities. All i come to do is my job for the paid time and then leave, no drinks, no chit chat, no games, after work team building etc. No no no. CEO is right!

Where I work, they've divided the "work from the office crowd" in 3 groups. Group 1: those that have to work from the office (they never stopped going in), group 2: those that want to go in the office (they are planning their return) and group 3: those who don't want to go back (we may have to go in once every 2 weeks... maybe...)

Nice to have such cheap fuel, its roughly $9.68 here currently and rising.

Don’t forget public transportation in big cities. They want you to use those as well. Plus the restaurant businesses which survive with office personnel.

Our governments supporting the oil industry? You don’t say!

We should think of it as a way to screw Russia and support Ukraine. If we suddenly drop our fuel usage, we could at least temporarily ditch our dependency on Russian imports!

Hilarious idea :-D

I've been working from home for 2.5 years now. I also am dealing with spinal issues that put me in the hospital last month. If I had to go in 5 days a week, I'd have to consider going out on disability. Working from home means I can keep working full-time. Even if some days that means taking more breaks and working later to make up the time. We have been called back into the office for 8 days a month next month, I'm working with my doctor's office to get FMLA paperwork allowing me to continue working from home.

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I agree. I have a friend who works case management and be occasionally has to go to the office for meetings or some paperwork.

I’m a teacher and I can’t work from home, but I do enjoy the lighter traffic for sure. You people continue to work from home because it makes our commutes so much easier 😁

I think I have FINALLY figured out what irks me so much about these interactions. (I'm autistic, it takes me longer). It's that the bosses talk to the employees like they are parents or something. There is no sense that the interactions or of two equal adults. These so-called managers think they just have the right to issue commands and the other person has to obey. That's just not how it works in the professional world. As indicated by the other person just quitting. Wish everyone who was treated this way had the same options.

By the time you arrive at your work you could already have worked 2 hours. If everyone promised to work 5 hours per week extra for free if they could WFH, all the employers would stop pressuring people to come in.

Depressing. And the vent isn't even strong enough to hang yourself, I bet.

The only pro of an office space is that the employer has better control over the employees. That's also the only reason why those employers don't want their staff to work from home. Has got nothing to do with "team play" or "short lines of communication", it's all about control.

I so wish that I had the skills to work from home. I run a biofuel plant, and gotta be there. I like my job, but f**k I hate that place. Been out with a back injury for a week, and oddly enough it's still the best week I've had in years. Since my kids were little, at least.

Remember seeing all the wild animals walking around? That was nice.

I guess they can write off more on taxes than they can collect in rent.

Maybe they can convert them in to affordable housing!!

Congrats!!

Exactly! Remote work is now a priority when looking at a job. If my current job force a return to the office, I'll quit in an instant since there's a lot of opening in my field. For now, my boss seems to want people back for "socializing" and "team building via socializing" purpose only. I call BS, they just don't want their nice office space to be wasted with nobody in it.

I think for most people the commute is the biggest con. It sets your routine but the traffic and cost isn't worth it.

Corp. Don't want to help you orake your life easier

This in a nutshell. In a lot of cases (mine included) it's more about the senior management team not trusting their employees to do their jobs at home unsupervised. I mean no one needs a manager who specialises in micromanagement if their workforce is working from home. Our place is also now trying to introduce timesheets / metrics, it's like living through the 90s all over again

"hoes"? seriously? maybe you don't belong at work?

Everyone should attach their resignation letter to that flyer.

To be fair, presidents of the USA have all been working from home, yes? Or how does the gig with the White House work?

So it seems "grandpa" Biden is just another stupid old boomer who does not understand the 21st century. A bit better manners than the orange idiot, but still...

Also justifying the brown-nosed middle management that plague companies. There are at least 5 managers I deal with that can be substituted with email forwarding rules and outlook would do their job better.

I get what OP.is saying. But don't forget, people working at "fast food places and other services industries" have to make a living, too. I'm NOT saying it's a reason to end remote work. In fact, I, like a lot of people here, think it should be a choice. But I AM saying, don't be so dismissive of the service industry. It's how a lot of people support their families. And it's thankless enough, already.

Abelism and control. The capitalist system is an abusive one and I'm really hoping that enough people refuse to work for these parasites that this kind of thing actually changes. The loss of approx. 1 million WORKERS will do that to a country.

depends were you work, I've been at a company 20 years and some of us do socialise out of work.

See the comment on the above post.

That's the whole point. The fact that you have to spend all that money on all those things is exactly why they want you to go back.

And all of the above would be great!

And Biden's office, the West Wing, is literally in his house!

Blech.

He's right, commuting is the most dreadful thing and they don't understand the problem of employees getting to work already tired and stressed out

A policy that allows EVERYONE to work from home? Sure. Using this as a reason to NOT offer that option? GFY.

These are terrible examples. Uber does not pay their drivers a liveable wage, instead it averages out by less than 15 dollars/hour (which I am aware, might be better than other jobs in America, it is still too little to live on). Airbnbs are one of the reasons why housing is unaffordable nowadays. Amazon, again, does not pay their employees a liveable wage. Not only that, Amazon has also made it almost impossible for local bookstores (not chains) to survive. Cryptocurrency is absolutely terrible for the environment and, because of the lack of regulations, is increasingly used by human traffickers and other criminals. Remote work should not be in this list.

It almost makes me wonder if those who own office buildings have bought a lot of stocks in gas and oil....

The insane thing abt bosses STILL at this point "not trusting" their employees to work when they're at home is like... has the work not been getting done the past 2 years??? Your company didn't grind to a screeching halt, SOMEBODY's been working... I'd imagine it's your workers. Doing their work. For 2 years from home without problem. Probably doing more work because they're not wasting time commuting or uncomfortable and unable to focus in a gross office.

I hope it backfires and people quit in droves. Companies offering remote options are gobbling people up.

What do you mean, whiteness. White people didn't do s**t to you or cause this virus. Besides the capitalist isn't human at this point so no skin color necessary