Pandemic Remote Work
This cluster focuses on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on remote work, debating whether pandemic-era WFH signals a permanent shift to remote or hybrid models, its acceleration of trends, and distinctions from normal remote work.
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hasnt the pandemic been a much bigger shock than remote work ?
Is that still true in the work from home post covid era?
I believe the GP is referring to the pandemic causing most people to work from home and the likelihood that this will cause long-term changes in the way people work. Less teams sharing office space (concentration), and more collaboration from people working remotely.
Ask HN: do you make any distinction between "working from home" and "working from home during a pandemic"? I see a lot of people arguing that WFH is the new normal, citing long reopening timelines, their own preferences, increased productivity, Twitter's policy change, etc.But just a few years ago, IBM and Yahoo radically curtailed their WFH policies, and they made (what seemed to me to be) pretty credible arguments that the policies were being abused (WFH employees n
Might be a side-effect of working remotely because of covid
COVID related work from home adjustments is my guess.
I think many were checked out already, Covid just accelerated it. The separation between home and work was blurred unexpectedly, during an extremely stressful time. People were forced into remote work. Many thought this to go on for a few months, not years.I also feel there are more meetings now than pre pandemic.
Covid WFH took me further - I would never work again if I can help it
COVID didn't create WFH, it merely accelerated its spread.
It's not that i think anything is wrong, but isn't it strange there's no jump I see in WFH comments during the pandemic when everyone was doing it