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Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

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Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

#41

Don’t people miss social interaction? I don’t understand how these articles are written. As a single man living on my own, this lockdown has made it pretty lonely.

Time for a lifestyle change I suppose.

Or time to not make the lifestyle change to work from home. It's not for everyone. Definitely not for me either.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

#42

Don’t people miss social interaction? I don’t understand how these articles are written. As a single man living on my own, this lockdown has made it pretty lonely.

Time for a lifestyle change I suppose.

I have friends and hobbies outside of work, but I still miss my "work friends". If you're going to be somewhere for ~8 hours a day, I find it's nice to have some company.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

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post #6

Who are these people? I've been working from home and I've noticed a steep dip in my productivity.

People who stretch their budget to live in the best school district they can afford, which usually comes at the cost of spending their life in a car (or train or bus) commuting as far as possible.

I think those people are more likely to want to work from home given their long commutes.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

#46
post #6

Who are these people? I've been working from home and I've noticed a steep dip in my productivity.

Same here, I have been struggling organising my time more then usual and since my company works as hourly I'm getting lots of anxiety, never knowing if I'm working enough or not.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

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post #19

No wonder given that the daily commute is both mentally and physically taxing for most. I've been working remotely since 2015 and have already decided to settle in a perhaps less attractive, but definitely cheaper neighbourhood so that I could have some office space in the house. In the long run it's probably going to cost as much as the sum total of fuel and vehicles used over the years, but the main benefit is not…

The big problem I've run into being remote is that while I can live anywhere and would totally fine living farther away from the bigish city I live near, my partner works in a field that determines that we live close to a major university and I'd feel like an ass for having 0 commute while she has to drive 45 minutes just because we could get more house/land/whatever farther away from the city.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

#48

Don’t people miss social interaction? I don’t understand how these articles are written. As a single man living on my own, this lockdown has made it pretty lonely.

I feel exactly the same way, and I'm not single and not living on my own. I haven't beent his lonely for more than a decade.

Re: Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll

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post #16

> Half of all Americans want to continue working from home following the coronavirus That is a VERY rough (actually false) sentance, considering they have only surveyed ~500 Americans out of 205'950'000+ population at working age. > We surveyed over 500 Americans...

Well, a survey usually tries to extrapolate numbers from a sample smaller than the total. They do this by trying to get a representative sample. Also if you were to ask each and every American about their stance on remote work I think that would be called a vote and not a survey.
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