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lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 6 days agoOut of curiosity, assuming a lot of this discussion is US-based, which I’m not, do you have the work from home options there very much? I know managers in my organization often work 4-4.5 days but a day or half a day is at home.
Others that can work most of their job from their home! Not sure what this is looking like in other countries these days (I’m in Australia). Obviously depends on the job!
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I’m in Ontario, but a lot of our customers are plants in the US or Mexico and some of our suppliers are in the US.
WFH seems quite common. all of our meetings are done over MS Teams anyways (which is a very effective format for technical reviews with multiple people presenting and sharing info). a lot of our suppliers clearly have salespeople or technical experts that are working from home (or in the case of sales people, probably travelling). it’s actually maybe slightly more rare than not that somebody turns their camera on and it’s of a meeting room with multiple people. we have customer meetings weekly for active projects and there’s anywhere from 4-20 people from the customer’s end in the call. some of them are clearly in the plant or office judging from background noise, but the office staff are sometimes WFH. it’s less common for staff at manufacturing plants though, given the nature of the job, including the office staff.
within my role (automated machine design), WFH is not super common. older managers are reluctant to hire staff who ask about remote work options, in my experience, despite themselves making use of that flexibility as appropriate (i.e. “not feeling great today and will be working from home”).
within my circle of friends family and acquaintances, I’d say maybe 25% are work from home? and the majority of those are in tech (software, IT, etc) or “boring office jobs” like non-customer facing bank staff. most of the people in a similar role to me actually work in the office, I’m the exception among my friends. obvs everyone in trades or customer service is on site, call that 60% of my circle. and then maybe the last 15% is hybrid