“If you don’t care for dog farts, just wear a face mask!”
First, I’ve always been the guy who works sick. I get respiratory syndromes that last for weeks, and I promise I have shed them to others.
Second, I have become the guy who is expert at not getting respiratory syndromes that last for weeks – this as a years’-long project.
There’s a lot I could talk about, but the big secret is this: Stay away from sick people.
There are a lot of good reasons for killing the beehive office complex, but the fact that you can’t kill me with your cooties if we only interact electronically seems hugely persuasive to me.
Housing Wire: Yun: fewer people will work from home after pandemic. My take: Hide and watch.
Redfin: Housing Market Update: Home Prices Up 15%, Pending Sales Rose 31%. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.
Housing Wire: Mortgage interest rates hold steady at record lows.
The Federalist: Congress Is On A Chaotic December Spend-A-Thon With The Nation’s Next 50 Years Of Money.
City Journal: State Election, National Effects: The Georgia Senate runoffs will have implications from coast to coast.
David Harsanyi: How the media covered up the Hunter Biden story — until after the election.
The American Spectator: The Texas Election Challenge and Its Discontents.
Margot Cleveland: 6 Things To Know About Texas’s Supreme Court Petition Over 2020’s Messed-Up Election.
Watts Up With That?: Essential Facts About Covid-19.
The American Spectator: Fox News’ Media Suicide.
Brian Brady says:
I really want to have a dialogue about the first link but, before we do, I will comment on two linked stories
1- Fox is F-xxed (buy whichever vowel seems appropriate).
2- Federalism’s SCOTUS stand is worthy, if only to re-assert the process for appointing Electors). I hope we can watch Senator Cruz say “to quell the passions of the populace” in his argument.
I don’t think Yun is wrong but I do think he’s overly optimistic. You have heard me screech “But what about the children?” a lot and I will admit that I am obsessed with demographic trends. The simple fact is that younger workers NEED the office environment. I offer 3 links:
https://envoy.com/blog/how-to-make-employees-feel-safe-at-work-during-covid-19/
https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/new-survey-return-to-the-office/
https://hbr.org/2020/06/what-your-youngest-employees-need-most-right-now
The “beehive” is not dead.. I go into my common office a few days a week and we have many new members who don’t have the space to work at home. They started coming in in the last few months. Their eyes were glued to their screens and ears were stuffed with earbuds.
Around Thanksgiving, they started talking to the (older) members who have been in this common office for more than a year. Man oh man, they are anxious! They worry about job security, getting trained, mentoring, competing with c0workers, and not having benchmarks to measure their performance. Mostly, they crave human interaction.
The office is going to be a different animal than what it has traditionally been– think hub and spoke with “hot desks” and more common workspaces. “Mad Men” and “Google Campus” will be extinct but there will be bees in the beehive. After all, everyone wants access to the queen bee
December 11, 2020 — 9:20 am
Greg Swann says:
Your office doesn’t count: Very open and spacious. Well people living in well families coming together is not a problem: No one is sick, so no one is carrying sickness home.
Now stack up 19 more of your offices on top of what you have and add elevators. Now well people are interacting with sick people all the time and everyone is carrying illness home.
There are all kinds of other reasons to keep working from home – the savings on space will be huge over time – but I expect no one but you will care about young people being left out of a corporate scene that will not be returning in any case.
That argues that what you want is a business, a Kumon for adult strivers. Or a TV show, like Dr. Phil: “The Boss Whisperer: What really happened at work today?”
December 12, 2020 — 8:14 am