Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home::There is a large and growing divide in terms of who gets to work from home. Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more education. Managers should be aware of this divide, as it has the potential to create toxic dynamics within teams and to sap morale.
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That’s it!? That’s the entire article? The list of authors is longer than the text! Did they write one sentence each and call it done?
Click each authors tag line to expand. But even then it’s fairly useless as it does not account for customer facing jobs. It kinda sucks but it’s kinda hard to wfh at a front counter interacting with people directly.
Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more education.
Those with leverage can use it to get better benefits. Shocking.
Also, knowledge workers have a higher average salary than laborers. No guesses for which one is better suited to working from home.
Yep.
Can’t exactly dig a ditch from home.
And I say this as someone who’s: dug ditches (septic actually, even worse), pumped gas, serviced cars, built homes, plumbed homes, installed AC, delivered home construction materials, remodeled houses, been a line cook, waiter, deployed hardware, setup access control, alarm monitoring, surveillance systems, restaurant manager, and several other jobs.
None which could be done from home, except part of the security stuff.
So us “gray collars” still have plenty of hands-on work. Always will.
Just another bit of manufactured outrage.
Are we going to clutch our pearls over work-from-home inequality while we ignore the even greater inequality of pay differences?
Jobs are different. Pay is different. Those who can work from home should have an option to; this will help them, and the environment, and those who do have to travel to work. If I have a job that requires me to travel, such as physical maintenance, working in retail, etc, I welcome a smooth commute because half the people are working from home.
The “you will all submit to RTO and like it” machine has finally found a way to package this message in a way that wide eyed internet activists will support. Congratulations to them, I guess.
Ahh yes the divide and conquer argument. People can’t work remotely because the other chumps have to come in! Get outta here corporate!
My company is attempting to try this bullshit and I’m curious what the HR will say to me when I tell them that’s discriminatory.
Edit: btw I’m not customer facing or a laborer unlike the handful of unimaginative comments assume the article’s talking about. This is an issue in all fields that can be remote. Sadly, an issue enough now that there’s at least one article about it. Wfh shouldn’t be something only egos get. If your job can be done from home, it should be.
I get what you’re saying - from the article and your comment I couldn’t name the group of people that it discrimates against though.
Perhaps that’s a different legal blah blah but where I’m from you can only discrimate against a protected group of people (race, religion, disability, gender are the ones I am aware of).
Discrimination would be a tough sell - and a “you’re creating a divide” would likely be met with a “well discuss that with your supervisor, this is a decision based on individual and team circumstances” - which leads then to the issues described in the OP.
I would be delighted if someone could bring more efficient HR confronting arguments!
I would be delighted if someone could bring more efficient HR confronting arguments!
How about the well-rested bonus you can bring to the workplace because you don’t have to commute. It’s one of the rare cases where it’s actually a good idea to argue with employee efficiency as giving them even 10% of the overall gains benefits them and they might even think you’re a brainless worker drone really doing it for the company.
In my experience as a programmer, entry roles don’t do well as remote. At the start of their career, it’s important to learn enough to become independent enough to work from home.
