Al Czervik

Excargodog

I’m sure differing companies will find differing amounts of success with telecommuting and replacing business travel with teleconferencing. That ought to surprise no one.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreal.../#13eab8f616c6

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/10/cover-remote-work

https://medium.com/mit-initiative-on...s-6f8fdfd692b6

Al Czervik

The theory is great.

303flyboy

So is yours though.

senecacaptain

binary pilot thinking again

A= "teleworking is not effective" is assumed to mean that

"business travel via airline" reverses (A)

it may not.

tallpilot

No surprise at all.

"Training new employees is hard." Yes, because your formal training program consists of 2 days of HR anti-discrimination training followed by assigning tasks the employee doesn't know how to do and expecting him to gain tribal knowledge by pestering coworkers. Fix the training program and build your intranet to provide all the work instructions a new employee needs.

Some companies will embrace this and thrive, others will resist and get steamrolled by progress.

Nothing about any of this is binary. You are correct, things are going to change. But don't worry the next three posts will let us know it will all be ok and we're being Cassandras.

Al Czervik

https://www.politico.com/newsletters...rk-myth-490100

RhinoPherret

Nope. I disagree from personal experience and observations from within DoD and its agencies, other Fed agencies, and interactions with private enterprise. Telework is now even the new accepted norm for all of DoD as an example and will remain so even after COVID passes, to a lesser degree, but still far more prevalent than anyone could have imagined prior to COVID. When even the Marine Corps goes full tilt on telework for now and beyond with written plans and directives for years to come beyond COVID, you know it has arrived! Private enterprise was already way ahead on telework and now that includes so many business and their staff that could not have been imagined prior to this pandemic. If you think airline travel by (think private business, meetings, DoD, Fed agencies) is not going to be effected by telework (remote work), then you are really kidding yourself.

Al Czervik

You just shot the messenger.

bradthepilot

There are also those who proclaim that not only has the sky fallen, but also that it will never rise again. In the mean time, those with no real experience can’t decide who to listen to and those with experience across multiple industries simply ignore them both.