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Wouldn't it be nice if all jobs could be done from home?
The amazing part is lots can, and that would instantly decongest infrastructure so that those who did have to go in would have an easier time about it.
Only people who work in the relatively few jobs that cam be done from home believe most jobs can be done from home. Y'all are in a white collar bubble.
Seriously this only works for like white collar office work and even then not really. Anyone working with inventory or warehouse and all the jobs that are food service and other onsite management go where?
They don't want to admit it but it really does not work for more than a specific group of office jobs.
I looked into it and there's a LOT more of those useless office jobs than I thought. Something like at least a third of all jobs can be done fully remote. I'm jealous as fuck.
I would be jealous, if sitting at a desk didn't make me wanna hang myself with an ethernet cable. I'm a process engineer in a steel mill and holy sweet fuck did I wanna die when I was WFH as a desk engineer. Bored out of my mind and feeling like I'll never progress because I couldn't even network well with managers/engineers like you can in a mill/in person office.
That's when I learned at this point in my career, heavily WFH is not for me. I need challenged and I need hands on, 1 of those I very much cannot get at home
A lot of jobs can be done from home.