Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Telecommuting was a reward for a few exceptionally skilled worker such as trusted programmers or software engineers.
Now for many major corporations and Universities, a major shift has occurred, at least in the North American Cities, where working from home and conferencing by Skype, Zoom and the like is now the norm.
There are huge benefits: less road traffic, less time wasted traveling and parking and decrease in stress.
My wife runs outreach education programs for the Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and normally 250 attend. Now regularly audiences are over 50” and the individuals on a panel and any videos are always much more clearly visualized compared to sitting in a large auditorium!
However, other folk suffer. City restaurants have almost zero customers lunch time and for after work.
Buildings are under utilized and tenants don’t need to rent so much space.
In the UK, too,this is realizedto be a huge and dangerous existential threat to City Centers!
But Trade Unions still want folk to work from home! In fact some say forcing workers to show up is “illegal”!
“Sir David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge, said that the change in age profile in infections was “quite extraordinary”. He said that the age shift was “affected by testing availability, but also a shift in who is infected”. He added: “The elderly and frail seem to be far better protected than they were at the start of the epidemic, but they need to be able to get their freedom back.”
There is mounting concern in government about the economic damage being caused to city centres by the increase in working from home as a result of the coronavirus crisis.”
Asher
Now for many major corporations and Universities, a major shift has occurred, at least in the North American Cities, where working from home and conferencing by Skype, Zoom and the like is now the norm.
There are huge benefits: less road traffic, less time wasted traveling and parking and decrease in stress.
My wife runs outreach education programs for the Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and normally 250 attend. Now regularly audiences are over 50” and the individuals on a panel and any videos are always much more clearly visualized compared to sitting in a large auditorium!
However, other folk suffer. City restaurants have almost zero customers lunch time and for after work.
Buildings are under utilized and tenants don’t need to rent so much space.
In the UK, too,this is realizedto be a huge and dangerous existential threat to City Centers!
But Trade Unions still want folk to work from home! In fact some say forcing workers to show up is “illegal”!
“Sir David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge, said that the change in age profile in infections was “quite extraordinary”. He said that the age shift was “affected by testing availability, but also a shift in who is infected”. He added: “The elderly and frail seem to be far better protected than they were at the start of the epidemic, but they need to be able to get their freedom back.”
There is mounting concern in government about the economic damage being caused to city centres by the increase in working from home as a result of the coronavirus crisis.”
Asher