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Re:Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees wo... by EvilEy3 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:55AM (#26978171)
How much cost they will endure when their employees start getting insane from all the zoom meetings and working with a monitor instead of a real person?
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Re:Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees wo... by jjav on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:06AM (#26978546)
> working with a monitor instead of a real person

Pre and post pandemic I'm still communicating with coworkers via email and slack, on the monitor. No difference at all.

Well, one difference is I used be able to hear them munch on their snacks a couple cubicles over, but I can do without that part.

Also, erasing the two hour commute, total win.

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Re:Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees wo... by LightG on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:46AM (#26978772)
We both win with WFH.

I have a co-worker (generally a lovely person) who is about ready to explode when she hears someone crunching on an apple.

WFH, I can now eat an apple without self-consciously slow-crunching.

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