Originally Posted by
Duffman
This really depends on where you work. My wife's department is cutting their lease on an entire floor of office space and everyone will permanently be working from home 4 days/week. Everyone I know with a white collar job will be permanently working from home much more after COVID.
REI in Seattle SOLD A NEW HEADQUARTERS they had not even moved into. The new headquarters is GONE. Working there is no longer even an option for REI:
Now I’m not pretending any of us at this point can accurately predict the extent to which work at home will replace office work - even management experts are debating that -
-or that Zoom will replace travel, but it is probably likely that at least to SOME degree and for SOME duration there WILL be an effect.
And yes, Rick, while it is indeed not impossible that this will “be good for us,” that sound a little bit like the kid digging through the manure pile hoping to find a pony. Not impossible, certainly, but clearly on the optimistic side..
