{"id":341853,"date":"2021-09-20T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/workers-need-to-start-getting-real-about-returning-to-the-office\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:01:36","slug":"workers-need-to-start-getting-real-about-returning-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/workers-need-to-start-getting-real-about-returning-to-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"#Workers need to start getting real about returning to the office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Workers need to start getting real about returning to the office<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Cuozzo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here\u2019s some gentle advice I\u2019m tempted to give my millions of work-from-home peers who won\u2019t go back to their offices because they say they\u2019re afraid of COVID-19: Get off your lazy butts and go back to the office! <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re collecting 100 percent of your salary. You are obliged to perform 100 percent of the work. Not 50 percent, with the remaining time devoted to your kids, your cat, and the latest 88-part Hulu or Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t that simple, of course. In less cranky moments, I get that WFH isn\u2019t just about the joys of a laptop-and-kambucha lifestyle. It has legitimate advantages \u2014 like saving hours every day on commuting, which (at least in theory) lets us be more productive. I was surprised at just how much more time I had to work in the months before I returned to our Midtown office from the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p>If I <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciated the extra daily 90 minutes afforded by skipping a short subway <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, and by not having to dress up, imagine how liberating to anyone faced with a daily two-or-more-hour schlep on commuter trains or on the road! To say nothing of the ease of picking up beer for the weekend and the kids after school.<\/p>\n<p>Companies say they won\u2019t order their workforce back to their desks until it\u2019s safe from COVID-19. But for some employees, as for teachers\u2019 union loudmouths, it will never be safe enough.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get real. Offices \u2014 especially where staff is vaccinated and safety \u201cprotocols\u201d are in place \u2014 are much less crowded, and tons safer, than subways, restaurants, theaters and stores.<\/p>\n<p>For the record: The actual risk of a vaccinated New Yorker contracting the virus on any given day is between one in 5,000 and one in 10,000. A lightning strike offers a greater chance of killing them than does COVID-19. The risk is surely even less inside an office where there are more rules than in the fine print of a Lotto card.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/work-home.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Student works at home.\" class=\"wp-image-19517383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/work-home.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/work-home.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/work-home.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>You\u2019re collecting 100 percent of your salary, and you are obliged to perform 100 percent of the work.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If work-from-homers truly feared getting sick on the job, they would even more assiduously avoid densely packed restaurants where unmasked strangers breathe in their faces.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d skip nightclubs, mask-free parties and events, like the recent ones for Fashion Week and the Metropolitan Museum of Art gala, which made it seem that the roaring 1990s were back.<\/p>\n<p>Yet they do not steer clear of such gatherings. The proof that nobody\u2019s really worried about office safety is that our restaurants fill up earlier in the evening than in the past. Guess why?<\/p>\n<p>Duh \u2014 it\u2019s easier and more natural to eat at 6 or 7 than at 8 or 9 when you\u2019re not coming from the office. Almost no one I know who eats out early and often has been to their desks or cubicles much since March 2020. Some WFH-ers swear they can\u2019t wait to go back to the office. How they miss the comradery, the shared intensity, the desirable co-workers they\u2019re not allowed to flirt with anymore!<\/p>\n<p>But if they were truly desperate to get out of the house, they\u2019d be clamoring for their bosses to bring them back.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>No such clamor has been detected.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated bosses know the quality of work has fallen way off. But they\u2019re either limited by corporate bean-counters whose goal is to unload space and cut costs, or simply afraid to have an honest conversation with the troops about why they drag their heels on wanting to come back.<\/p>\n<p>Memo to those who say, \u201cI don\u2019t care if I never go back to the office,\u201d and to companies that say, \u201cWe\u2019ll get there when we get there\u201d: The issue is bigger than you.<\/p>\n<p>Indefinitely empty office buildings will doom this city. Without the fortune in tax revenue that the buildings generate, our $98.6 billion annual budget won\u2019t be carried by parking-violation and unleashed-dog fines.<\/p>\n<p>Tenants need to engage their employees on these issues more than they have. Or we\u2019ll see an endless cycle of office-return postponements until companies say enough! Let\u2019s keep everyone home for good. Should that happen, and strip the value off thousands of office towers with a half-billion square feet and wreck the economy, don\u2019t blame the banks. Don\u2019t blame Trump, Biden, Dr. Fauci or China.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all on us for not tackling the problem head-on, no matter how uncomfortable it might be.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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