Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees Want Only WFH: Survey

Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by dbetteridge on Saturday March 19, 2022 @03:01AM (#30731788)

I would imagine in Europe compared to the USA there are a lot more people in very small apartments or share houses in the cities, they do not lend themselves well to home working.

Additionally thats one company, maybe you just have a particularly social group of swes who like each other and a good office environment

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by jokethrowaway on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:35AM (#30732415)

This, I have been working remotely long before COVID and even if I could stay at home I was going to the office to see friends / have lunch / hit the gym / grab a beer.

Nothing productive was getting done during those office days but they definitely made the job more tolerable and contributed to me not job hopping earlier.

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by stkdump on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:06AM (#30732076)

Hm, average apartment size in this city: 790 sq ft, average USA: 880 sq ft. Average household size my country: 1.99 ppl, average USA: 2.5 ppl. I guess we just have better working conditions in the office than average or in the USA.

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by react_burger38 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:52AM (#30733695)

A better comparison would be median single family home size in US, which is around 2,300 sq ft [1]. Over 60% of housing units in US are single family homes [2].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/456925/median-size-of-si... [2]: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data/interactive...

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by jokethrowaway on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:36AM (#30732419)

USA houses are massive.

Space is ridiculously expensive in Europe and nobody is used to it, so the market rarely offer that.

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by gota on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:07PM (#30735491)

Can most of you walk or bike to work?

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Re:Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees ... by stkdump on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:56PM (#30736608)

I guess ~15 people bike to work, the rest uses cars or public transport. I don't think anyone walks to work.

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