COVID's impact on the future of work - Downtown 2030?

[feepa]

Originally Posted by CMD UW

Your employer makes the rules. You either like them or you don't. How you wish to deal with them is entirely up to you. If your employer has an expectation to be back in the office 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 days/week that's their call. You don't like it, deal with it. WFH is not a right, it's a privilege depending on you work for.

ease up bud. No one is claiming its a right. You come off all high and mighty, and KIA. It's definitely a perk, an incentive, a benefit.
however, I'm educated and experienced enough, and it's certainly fairly common in my sector, that I can demand it, and if I dont get it, I'll move on to somewhere that WILL offer it to me.

Some of you act like your employees are just slaves that are going to do what ever 'best serves the company' at all turns in life....

Most people are beyond that.

If you employers are wondering why your morale has lowered has you force the masses to commute in just to have the same remote teams meetings.... LOL

[itom 987]

I would prefer to have a 4 day work week instead of working from home.

[feepa]

yea I hear you on the 4 day work week...

...some employers already offer it

and do so while still WFH.

...and continue to surpass metrics established before WFH

its amazing what happens when you trust your employees and empower them to do the right thing.

[Coldrsx]

Sounds like a number of the largest Downtown employers are asking some pretty tough questions to the City, following their return to work efforts, costs, security concerns and commitment to Downtown...

Expect more to come.

[Harrison]

Here's an example:

If everyone returns to work Downtown, but everyone that does brings their own lunch, does not drive and gets a coffee maybe once a week, will all of those 'Downtown business leaders' still be satisfied?

Or is this just an exercise in having those workers going Downtown for work to just spend money Downtown?

[feepa]

Originally Posted by Harrison

Or is this just an exercise in having those workers going Downtown for work to just spend money Downtown?

and your signature...

bingo bango

gotta keep them REITs happy

Smart employers already know that to stay competitive for talent, RTO or hybrid for all roles might be just attracting the bottom of the barrel. Which is fine, if that's what you're after.

[Coldrsx]

They're back!

https://www.edmontonchamber.com/2026/01/29/publicservice-backtowork-jan26/

[Slide]

Downtown was struggling pre-covid with a dearth of retail and empty streets; in fact, for decades before covid. I was seeing open drug use in LRT entryways since 2016 when i started working downtown and I am sure it was happening long before. It is much worse now, but it wasn't good then either.

So while this will be a boon, downtown will be basically returning to status quo struggle, instead of current struggle.

Downtown desperately needs an actual strategy

[Coldrsx]

It's got strategies up the wazoo; needs action, investment and commitment.

[YegFan]

^ it needs more high paying, white collar, professional jobs in the core.

[feepa]

Originally Posted by YegFan

^ it needs more high paying, white collar, professional jobs in the core.

Those people have remote work with employers that get it. Those that don't attract the lower end talent. If that's what you want is bums in the seat...

Some of you still have the 80s mentality that Edmonton very much seems stuck in. Wonder why.

[YegFan]

Originally Posted by feepa

Those people have remote work with employers that get it. Those that don't attract the lower end talent. If that's what you want is bums in the seat...

Some of you still have the 80s mentality that Edmonton very much seems stuck in. Wonder why.

I wonder why the big techs , consulting firms, banks...around the world brought back their staff. You are one lazy employee who thinks remote or hybrid work is a right. it is privilege. Try being an employer for a week and see for yourself!

[feepa]

Originally Posted by YegFan

I wonder why the big techs , consulting firms, banks...around the world brought back their staff. You are one lazy employee who thinks remote or hybrid work is a right. it is privilege. Try being an employer for a week and see for yourself!

sorry you're out of touch with what's happening out there beyond your limited scope of view.

I don't think it's a right, but it's certainly a privilege and it's afforded to great employees, and organizations a-like that can perform as well or better. Sounds like you dont have great employees. Perhaps cause youre a soul-sucking boss that doesn't value their time.

I can find just as many 'lazy' employees milling about the office circling for stale donuts and coffee, smoke breaks, and those extended lunch breaks and all that office productivity you chime on about.

fucking boomers man.

[YegFan]

^ not a boomer by miles....

Again you are proving my point. Just a typical low performing employee who wants to hide behind a computer screen.

[feepa]

if you're not a boomer, you certainly sound like one. Perhaps get that checked out. Therapy, anger management... etc.

As for low performing employee, speak for yourself, you know fuck all about me. My career speaks for itself.

[Coldrsx]

Opinion: Edmonton’s Downtown Is Turning a Corner – Now Comes the Hard Part

https://naiopedmonton.com/edmontons-downtown-turning-a-corner/?mc_cid=770f899be3&mc_eid=bc3b7a55be

[Coldrsx]