A New Corporate Paradigm?

[SpeareChucker]

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, think of it what you will,
has the potential for a dynamic shifting
in the way we conduct business:

Recreational Equipment Inc. is looking to sell its custom-made new headquarters and allow employees to work from home or other offices, the latest sign that the pandemic is driving companies to ditch central offices to raise cash.

The retailer, known as REI, was poised to open the new Seattle-area headquarters this summer after creating a unique building that reflected the company’s outdoorsy image and could serve as a way to recruit new employees. The property features outdoor staircases and bridges, a courtyard of native plants, and skylights to let in sunshine and air.

But the cooperative said on Wednesday it was trying to find a buyer for the property before ever moving in. Instead of a single headquarters, REI will open a number of smaller offices and allow employees to work remotely, the company said. Employees have been working from home since March.

REI’s about-face on a building that was two years in the making offers the latest example of how the coronavirus pandemic is changing daily work habits and upending the office sector.

Will a significant number of Americans be converting
that second/guest bedroom to a home office?

Would not commuting thus be a boon
to the ecology if not
the economy?

Would our workforce become more, or less productive
due to this mountain-sea change?

Anyone experiencing this?

 

[surdeep]

There goes Office Sex.

 

[SpeareChucker]

There goes Office Sex.

Yeah, but it gets replace by bored, next-door hausfrau sex...

OR

For the ladies (and a couple of the guys here),

Pool-boy sex.

Healthy!

 

[bellisarius]

But if you take up backyard farming for God's sake

don't kiss your chickens.

 

[SpeareChucker]

But if you take up backyard farming for God's sake

don't kiss your chickens.

I thought that was just plain common sense!

They dust bathe in their own poop.

Maybe just because I'm rural.



City-folk...

 

[bellisarius]

I thought that was just plain common sense!

They dust bathe in their own poop.

Maybe just because I'm rural.



City-folk...

I'd muzzle the CDC because I'm all about Darwinism. If nature doesn't cull the stupid from our ranks we'll have to eventually.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I'd muzzle the CDC because I'm all about Darwinism. If nature doesn't cull the stupid from our ranks we'll have to eventually.

You did a splendid job culling your own family herd.

 

[SpeareChucker]

With Idiocracy. Like ^^^^^^

I'd muzzle the CDC because I'm all about Darwinism. If nature doesn't cull the stupid from our ranks we'll have to eventually.

 

[Trumpedo]

You did a splendid job culling your own family herd.

*chvckles*

 

[FescueFan]

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, think of it what you will,
has the potential for a dynamic shifting
in the way we conduct business:



Will a significant number of Americans be converting
that second/guest bedroom to a home office?

Would not commuting thus be a boon
to the ecology if not
the economy?

Would our workforce become more, or less productive
due to this mountain-sea change?

Anyone experiencing this?

Yuuuuup...the Mrs. goes in only about once a week now, maybe twice.

Saves fuel/maintenance...reduced eating out, bidnizz is a boomin!

Mine is minimal until I can get to Japan for some more exotic stock.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I wonder...



Which will experience the larger gain,
Personal Savings or
FedEx and UPS?

(no way the USPS is poised to take advantage of the opportunity )