Project into the future a few years and deduce the long term business effect of the Covid induced "work from home edict". Will the urban population suddenly or eventually realize the do not need to live in clusters in the city environment, then migrate to small towns and rural areas, while still producing work product and being paid for it?
Or, will companies simply hire and outsource workers from foreign countries at a much cheaper labor rate, cut their costs, and continue business via "remote work"? Thoughts on how this will trend? Labor market has been gutted for more than two decades now with near slave labor in third world countries. Will "brain power labor" be next to die from outsourcing? Or, has it already, and we are too numbed and dumbed down to realize it? When the rich American workers no longer work, who buys the product from cheap third world labor? Is this a "business cycle" and is there a profit opportunity laying somewhere to be found? On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:01 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > That and when they’ve griped about work paying for their Internet access, > the counter is, “So you wouldn’t have it if you didn’t need to work at > home?” > > This is nickel and dime stuff by people who just want to gripe, in my > opinion. When someone sits down with them and crunches the numbers, as a > couple of managers have had to do, suddenly working from home looks far > more attractive. > > -D > > > On Dec 5, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > > > >> We’ve heard some griping from employees about this, but that’s > >> countered with, “So how much money have you saved this year not having > >> to commute, buy lunch or work clothing?” > > > > I suppose that is what the argument would be. Your commute is now > > virtual, like everything else. Commuting expenses have never been > > deductible either, though when I worked as a consultant we were allowed > > to turn in travel expenses that were "over and above" our normal home > > office commute, when we were at a client site. > > > > Allan > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
