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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
To put the two last posts together, my place doesn't want to let go.
They need to see faces (when they are there -- it doesn't matter if you are in and working when no one else is) that's why you have to send multiple "all lawyers" emails if you're in on a Sunday. Not because everyone needs to know if you've forgotten the copier code, because the bosses need to see you standing on your hind legs for peanuts.
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I'm actually super curious on how this pans out in a year or so. I'm infinitely more productive here with barking dogs and my husband vacuu-sealing stuff in the kitchen and the distraction of a million things in my house than I ever was at the office.
One of the admins outside my door and an eggshell neighbor made it so I was always worried there about the noise I made. Here, none whatsoever. If I blare RATM while I'm going through documents, my husband is happy to hear it in the next room. I have more time to get work shit done because I'm not commuting or having to deal with small talk or even moving from meeting a to meeting b. Everyone has figured out WebEx, and while the number of meetings is up, we're getting better at getting to the point quickly and getting out asap. I'm super-siloed in my practice, and I don't need to walk down the hall to bounce ideas off a colleague's head.
From late September until this week, we were going in once a week on a staggered basis for some unclear reason. I was ok with it because there was no one else in the building and I could get some affidavits notarized, but I didn't see the point in it. Numbers are up again, and we're at home for the foreseeable future. A good hunk of the employees at work will be in the front of the line for the vaccine, but I'm happy to wait here.
I suspect that there will be a lot of moving once this is over. Some employers won't be able to let go of how it was done before. Some employees will never be able to go back.
I don't have kids. I have a job that I can do this. My situation is different than tons of other people who need/want the structure of the old way of doing things. I work in a fairly traditional place, and I'm really interested in whether or not the changes will be permanent. I suspect some of them will be for some people. For others, not at all.
Employment lawyers are going to have an interesting few years ahead of them.
