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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
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.
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.
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This is the same for me. The endless parade of zombies asking stupid questions has stopped; now if they have a question the only option is email, to which they get responses. While the individual lawyers have figured out Zoom depositions, my office has had ONE attorney-wide zoom call in 9 months.
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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.
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I first went into the office in June, once again in July, then once again in August. The mask-free zone wasn't for me. When my boss called me out on it, over the phone, I simply told him "I'll make my own health decisions thanks." My son was in the car and said "He talks to you like you're a second-grader."
And this was before the positivity rate spiked recently.
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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.
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My son has got one more semester left in a Master's program so we'll see what happens.
