Remote Work in 2025 and Beyond

[eDJ_]

If you work remotely for a company are you expecting to be shifted into RTO ? (Remote to Office) I don't know if there any Van Dwelling Federal Employees here or not but there is slated to be crack down on Remote Work for them and private sector employers are wanting to return remote workers to their offices. Will you be effected ?

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"Looking to 2025, I believe remote work will evolve into a more balanced hybrid approach," he says. "While some companies may push for a full return to office, the ongoing demand from employees for flexibility will likely ensure that hybrid models remain dominant.

Still there are a lot of businesses who cannot find employable personnel living close by. It may owe to the cost of housing. Then if people have to drive to work some distances they may want to look at the pay being offered and the cost of tires for their vehicle and other operating expenses. (have you checked the prices for new tires lately ? They ain't cheap. A new set could cost more than a weeks pay and possibly a months. So many tires are made in China and tariffs won't help matters if you need replacements)

 

[twomountainlions]

They had been cracking down on remote to appease interests of commercial real estate and other business owners. Literal slavery. Public servants, however, should not work remotely, they often use it to literally hide from the public they should serve.

 

[maki2]

There is a huge difference between actual slavery and the social construct of being a “wage slave”. Watch out because words actually do have meanings and sometimes modifying words do need to precede them.

 

[Cy_5th]

I am in the private sector, oil and gas. It is such a big company that there has to be remote work depending on your job duties. It's cheaper that way for this company. They had been closing pencil pushing offices for example in CA because of the cost rent and gives the employee a choice to move out of state to their new HQ or work remote (depending on job duties) or get laid off.

I have not heard about going back to 4-5 day work weeks where I am at which is on site. I think this hybrid schedule will continue. Like I mentioned it has been going on way before the pandemic with this company. It was only a fully remote when the pandemic happened.

In the Federal though there probably so much overhead they will just cut the job outright.

 

[eDJ_]

When high profile business people like Elon Musk begin to make broad statements regarding the work week hours that have become accepted practice, a lot of other small businesses may allow them their interest to be swayed by it too. Notice the first five words (a cop out in my own opinion) in the quote below. It can open a new avenue to micro managing. When workers begin to realize the cost of living/commuting to work against the pay scale being offered they may look closely at employers, going into debt on 30+% credit cards, and even remaining single opposed to trying to form a family in these austere times. If your commute time is over two hours a day, that's two hours of your own free time you aren't compensated for. An "opportunity cost" to have the present job. (is it really worth it if you are struggling to break even.....your employer wouldn't operate his/her business like that) Many of us are here living the Nomad lifestyle or studying it for some of these reasons.

“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week,” SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in 2018

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An image from a tenement building in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1920's. ( Back when America was so Great....we hear so much about today) Less affluent workers worked long hours at low pay before the 40 hour work week was established in 1940 with The Fair Labor Standards Act. (which mandated time over 40 hours a week must be paid over time wages)

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[maki2]

Economist theorize what the future might look like. Why not go back to the 1960s business predictions and read those theories for what business models might look like today.? You might be very amused at what you see