Originally Posted by
mngmt mole
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My employer mentioned last week that all 27k UK employees will remain work from home for a considerable time partly due to finding out the business operates just as well when home based, there are also rumours that the majority of the 16k located in London will be offered home working permanently and the company will offload several large properties. It would not be surprising to see the majority of companies doing the same in order to remove the costly real estate burden now that they have successfully experienced lengthy working from home. My employer also announced zero travel and complete change around travel in the future stating video conference will be the go to option.
This is the problem we now face...
Not just in UK, Australia is the same.... my sister told me their CEO said last week in an email, people who were all sitting in the offices tgt before the virus may never sit in the same offices with each other again. Even when ppl can go back to work, they might just run a team A and B rotation for hot desks at the office. As you said, apparently lots of businesses have realised that they can have ppl working from home, saving office rental costs etc while still actually run to a rather regular standard.
It's always the case when business management was forced to take drastic measures and realise 'oh wait, this works and cost less money?? WOW' then it would never go back to the old way that cost money....