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https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/wfh-favours-urban-high-earners-5901004/

I'm not surprised in the least. Perks for me but not for thee!
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That seems backwards, as most people moved to high cost cities in the first place to find work. Working from home means they can move to cheaper areas, and they arent going to cut your pay if you move, so they should be making city wages while living elsewhere.
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PraetorXyn posted...
That seems backwards, as most people moved to high cost cities in the first place to find work. Working from home means they can move to cheaper areas, and they arent going to fit your pay if you move, so they should be making city wages while living elsewhere.

Your assuming they're is a reason their moving to rural areas instead of you're average town.
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why is linkedin doing a "study" ?
That's Canada tho
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PraetorXyn posted...
That seems backwards, as most people moved to high cost cities in the first place to find work. Working from home means they can move to cheaper areas, and they arent going to fit your pay if you move, so they should be making city wages while living elsewhere.

Eh not necessarily. I feel like I saw that quite a few companies started doing geographic pay ranges when remote work was big during and immediately after Covid.
Hmm...
PraetorXyn posted...
That seems backwards, as most people moved to high cost cities in the first place to find work. Working from home means they can move to cheaper areas, and they arent going to cut your pay if you move, so they should be making city wages while living elsewhere.
in theory yes, but in practicality this is not what happens. econometrically, of course.

i'm not surprised that management, senior engineers/analysts, and c-suite take advantage of WFH more than the juniors, the coordinators, the """specialists""" (a bullshit job title that effectively means, peon).
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WingsOfGood posted...
why is linkedin doing a "study" ?
read the article.
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ArkhamOrigins posted...
Your assuming they're is a reason their moving to rural areas instead of you're average town.

I dont know if it saddens me more if this is on purpose or a series of accidents.
Naysaspace posted...
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/wfh-favours-urban-high-earners-5901004/

I'm not surprised in the least. Perks for me but not for thee!
Unless everyone can benefit, no one should benefit?
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Naysaspace posted...
read the article.

Link directly to the article next time instead of random Linkedin posts about the article.

https://shorturl.at/htMNP

Reads like a corpo desperately trying to spin WFH as a bad thing.
PraetorXyn posted...
That seems backwards, as most people moved to high cost cities in the first place to find work. Working from home means they can move to cheaper areas, and they arent going to cut your pay if you move, so they should be making city wages while living elsewhere.
It makes perfect sense once you consider that this bs study didn't control the causational factor. People in cities are more likely to have office jobs period. The study essentially says "Work from home benefits people with jobs that can be worked from home more than those with jobs that can't be worked from home."

The article is bullshit, trying to trick people into turning against the objective good WFH trend.
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Yeah, that definitely applies to me. A big portion of network engineering already involved designing things so that you can work from anywhere in the world. The covid lockdowns just proved our work in that regard, imo. There have been parts of the company I work for who have to go back into the office, but productivity in the network engineering teams didn't drop at all. So, at least for now, they're fine with us working remotely.
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Yeah because most people who get to work from home are paid well. People doing lower pay jobs still gotta go in.
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CableZL posted...
Yeah, that definitely applies to me. A big portion of network engineering already involved designing things so that you can work from anywhere in the world. The covid lockdowns just proved our work in that regard, imo. There have been parts of the company I work for who have to go back into the office, but productivity in the network engineering teams didn't drop at all. So, at least for now, they're fine with us working remotely.
Productivity didnt drop for anywhere or anyone. The push to get people back into offices is all about commercial real estate prices. They spent a fortune buying / leasing office space, and they dont want it to become worthless because its empty.
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PraetorXyn posted...
Productivity didnt drop for anywhere or anyone. The push to get people back into offices is all about commercial real estate prices. They spent a fortune buying / leasing office space, and they dont want it to become worthless because its empty.

I dont think its fair to say that absolutely nobody was less productive as a result of working from home. Some people definitely were, either because of individuals or because of the job roles not being suitable for it.

However, youre largely right that commercial property investment is a huge motivator.
Glob posted...
I dont think its fair to say that absolutely nobody was less productive as a result of working from home. Some people definitely were, either because of individuals or because of the job roles not being suitable for it.

However, youre largely right that commercial property investment is a huge motivator.
I meant as a trend. Revenue is up and all that. The work got done for 3 years of everyone working from home. If slacking off was some rampant problem, that wouldnt be the case.
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Yeah, I apologize, I should have worded that better. I didn't mean to suggest that productivity generally dropped, but I'm running on fumes after a rough night of work.
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Glob posted...
I dont think its fair to say that absolutely nobody was less productive as a result of working from home. Some people definitely were, either because of individuals or because of the job roles not being suitable for it.

However, youre largely right that commercial property investment is a huge motivator.
Maybe some individuals , but no actual demographic . If a job can be worked from home, it's objectively better to have the option for full remote.
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Glob posted...
I dont know if it saddens me more if this is on purpose or a series of accidents.
Its impressive either way.
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Looks like interwebuser was wrong as usual. Thankfully don't have him around anymore.
DarkChozoGhost posted...
Maybe some individuals , but no actual demographic . If a job can be worked from home, it's objectively better to have the option for full remote.

I generally agree with that, although, as Ive said, some job roles were disastrous for those that tried to do it. Teaching, for example.

But yeah, a huge number of jobs are workable without going into the office, or certainly going into the office far less frequently.
CableZL posted...
Yeah, I apologize, I should have worded that better. I didn't mean to suggest that productivity generally dropped, but I'm running on fumes after a rough night of work.
I didnt take it that way, no worries. I was just piling into what you said by saying productivity was steady if not up across the board.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
It makes perfect sense once you consider that this bs study didn't control the causational factor. People in cities are more likely to have office jobs period. The study essentially says "Work from home benefits people with jobs that can be worked from home more than those with jobs that can't be worked from home."

The article is bullshit, trying to trick people into turning against the objective good WFH trend.
Bingo.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
It makes perfect sense once you consider that this bs study didn't control the causational factor. People in cities are more likely to have office jobs period. The study essentially says "Work from home benefits people with jobs that can be worked from home more than those with jobs that can't be worked from home."

The article is bullshit, trying to trick people into turning against the objective good WFH trend.

This.

And I'd assume most of those people that do WFH had these jobs pre-pandemic that required them to live in/near the city to begin with.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
It makes perfect sense once you consider that this bs study didn't control the causational factor. People in cities are more likely to have office jobs period. The study essentially says "Work from home benefits people with jobs that can be worked from home more than those with jobs that can't be worked from home."

The article is bullshit, trying to trick people into turning against the objective good WFH trend.
Then you run into the issue of the people making the least have to spend the most just to get by. It would be strange to say they have to go to the office because the people on the floor can't wfh. But, in a way, you could say it will further class divide.
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Well yeah, fast food and retail grunts can't exactly "work from home"
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