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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
We have all seen the outcome from students having classes at home. It works for some, it has been a disaster for others. The political pressure to re-open schools, colleges and universities for in-person classes has been incredible. And what happened? They re-opened. I have directly spoken to students whose experiences with classes at home was terrible. Some quit university as a result. Hopefully, they return and this does not damage their life-long future.
But I guess students are a different species from adults in the workforce.
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A key difference is that students wanted to go back to school/university and feel they learn better that way. Plus, there's actual evidence instead of supposition that remote learning is less effective with children. That's not the case with employees in many types of roles. Simple as that.
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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Now, before everybody gets on my back again. I said that I see value in Zoom conferences and WFH to some extent, but I go back to my original comment some months ago, that I found it shocking that 48% of PS workers were still 'exclusively' working from home. Hopefully, that has since changed.
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We're seeing a paradigm shift - the pandemic probably moved us forward a decade or more on the digital workplace. As a Canadian, I'm glad that the PS will likely reap huge financial benefit from reducing office demand, freeing up resources for, you know, programs Canadians actually care about.
Anecdotally, I feel more productive, as do most who do primarily autonomous work. The exceptions are the colleagues who enjoy watercooler conversations more than they loathe commuting.
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