Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Yes telework is certainly helping. It's kept my wife employed, although she hates it and it makes her job very frustrating. Her organization's employees are pushing to go back to the office. Management is stalling, due to covid risk/liability.
She does complex work, involving many outside organizations, so the lack of meetings and personal interaction is more problematic than it would be for jobs such as data entry.
My wife has done it for six years. That said it works if you have good people and through downsizing etc they have a good team. When they first started doing it they had a guy who would be in a file (locking everyone else out by default) and go get lunch without getting out of the file. Finally he was let go during downsizing but if you have less then stellar employees as Rick says it can force you mad.