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Re:Working from home is powering productivity by ajuc on Saturday October 12, 2024 @07:58AM (#41818471)
> Unfortunately this can be a race to the bottom

This works as an argument against 8h work day and 5-day work week too.

Ultimately if something is better for the society (and WFH obviously is - commute time, carbon footprint, land prices, housing crisis - it helps with almost everything) - we should just force companies to use it by regulation, so that there's no "race" in that regard cause the conditions are the same for everybody.

The exact regulation is tricky, but sth in the spirit of "if your job can be WFH you should have an option of WFH" is a good starting point.

Re:Working from home is powering productivity by abustamam on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:27AM (#41819314)
I agree that WFH is better for society, but anecdotally, it probably caused more of a housing crisis here in CA. Folks took their bay area salaries and moved to cheaper suburbs and totally wrecked the RE market. And I have read stories of similar things happening in other places that techies flocked to, like Austin, though I don't think it's necessarily fair to blame that on remote work because there were other factors in play there (politics for example)
Re:Working from home is powering productivity by ajuc on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:37AM (#41819390)
> Folks took their bay area salaries and moved to cheaper suburbs and totally wrecked the RE market.

Isn't that what we want? Land prices averaging out? Then we can build where it's cheaper so more people have homes (with access to good jobs).

It probably won't be limited to suburbs, if you can WFH from the same state - you can WFH from another state.

Re:Working from home is powering productivity by rescbr on Saturday October 12, 2024 @01:33PM (#41820861)
Land prices averaged up, but local salaries aren’t doing the same.
Re:Working from home is powering productivity by CalRobert on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:35PM (#41822326)
Isn’t that improving the housing shortage in the bay?
Re:Working from home is powering productivity by zeroonetwothree on Saturday October 12, 2024 @11:43AM (#41819916)
And many high performing companies famously expect employees to work more than 8h/day and/or weekends.
Re:Working from home is powering productivity by ajuc on Saturday October 12, 2024 @01:16PM (#41820723)
Some people steal, does not mean stealing is fine or that we shouldn't ban it.