Is work from home here to stay?

There's been alot of talk about the technological advances made throughout the COVID19 pandemic as workers around the world were thrust into a new way of doing things. No longer were people crammed onto trains, stuck in their cars or sleep depraved. Many got extra sleep, spent more time with their families and developed a better work like balance.

Companies spent millions upgrading their tech to enable workers to work from home. For a brief moment there the blending of life, work and home time seemed to flow well. Just as we quickly ran off to work from home our bosses were worried we would slack off. Sleep throughout the day and not get anything done. But time and time again the results proved inconsistent with what bosses were saying. The results clearly showed that workers were more productive at Home

In a blink of an eye work place bullying, sexual harassment, fatigue disappeared. Well there were still some guys that got their junk out on web came. Can save em all ey?

But a new stoush has arisen between workers, employers and investors around work from home and it will he the battle of our current time.

On 13 April JP Morgan stated that the majority of its staff would be working from home or remotely and many other businesses said the same thing. JP morgan even put letter out to its board members to say the change.

It was beneficial to everyone, workplace balance and happy staff. But 5 days ago JP Morgan issued a statement stating that they will require all their staff back in JULY

Now we can only speculate on the reasons why and this is not from their mouth and only an opinion. But I am guessing the reason why the back foot is all to do with investment and wealth.

Since the lock downs people left the city in droves which has caused a regional real estate Boom. I mean who would have thought? People don't want to live in tiny shoe boxes in the city. You mean humans want open space, grass, trees and a life. Were not actually after seedy alcohol fueled weekends spurred by sex and violence? Who would have thought!

The regional town boom is bad for all those baby boomers that put their money and investments into city apartments, investments and nest eggs. Cafes are down, housing is down its all spiralling out of control as millions of people expose the over inflation of the housing market in the CBD and inner suburbs opting for that better quality of life.

We've long been advocating that men don't play enough of a role in families and child rearing. I have never been more hands on with my kids and I love it. See most of us will spend the majority of our lives at work. We will spend more time with people in the office than our own families.

This might be good when your young but once you get older, have kids or just settle down. The people that matter most aren't at work. Long commutes impact family time, having to get up early to incorporate travel your kids miss out, you miss out. Soccer practice and all those sporting events build up.

You're lied to by baby boomers who tell you that they had to do all that too. Except they don't tell you the whole story. Their commute was only 15 - 20 minutes. They've stopped business office expansion to ensure it is close to their homes so they don't struggle while you HAVE to move further out.

Oh YOU have to come into the city to spend money to support THEIR lifestyle. You're a cash cow. Your young, fit, healthy and have many years of work left in you. Boomers do not and if your not forced to go in capitalism will re emerge and shift wealth to where it is. With you and not them.

The market dictates, it always does just at the moment it is being controlled by an entire generation. Big CEOs and companies can make whatever rules they like but at the end of the day it is the people that decide when they apply.

The inaction of companies and their stance on undoing what has been done will only serve to cause them more losses than gains. Eventually all those skills from those companies will open up competition companies in the burbs. We've all seen Wolf of Wall St?

He who controls the wealth makes the rules, where a centralised financial institution currently dominates it is on its last legs as generational change emerges.

People have had a taste of freedom and what work life balance is. It won't be easy taking that back without firm industrial action.

Majority rules, always does and always will.

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