When Do You Think We Can All Go Back to Office Like Normal?

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    goraygo on 21/05/2020 - 19:46

    +1

    LOL.

    If you look at international news, those cheaper outsource countries are severely impacted by COVID and have their call centres shut down.

    Fully Outsourcing is now less attractive, partly outsource would be the future while you have local employees where you have better control.

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      Hybroid on 21/05/2020 - 21:20

      Ehh, the opposite has rung true for us in the Engineering space. We have thousands of resources in Manila and all across India among other countries. The initial logistics of getting everyone set up at home to work properly was a challenge but it has been a godsend for continued work and delivery helping maintain revenue generation. We would be in a much much worse off state without having outsourced design and engineering abroad. Not a single local redundancy has been required.

      Most offices will start going back to work in June with a staggered specific teams per day approach.

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    Gnostikos on 22/05/2020 - 17:53

    We're at a point now where technology is no longer a barrier

    Lol, it's Australia not South Korea or Japan.

    Our average fixed-line downstream Internet speeds are ranked 64th in the world, behind Kosovo, Montenegro and Trinidad and Tobago.

    So you live very close to your NBN POI, have a short cable run to your fibre node and live in a relatively modern home. Good for you.
    Millions of Australians don't have that luxury.

    That's saying nothing of the fact that millions of Australian can't do anything more technologically-involved than digitally fingering their smartphones to navigate idiot-proof, Fisher Price-inspired UIs, let alone troubleshooting webcam, microphone or connectivity issues during teleconferencing meetings nor have relatively modern, secure and well-maintained computing hardware at home.

    Your niche bubble, like so many others' on OzBargain, does not apply to anything close to a majority of Australian households.

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  Zachary on 21/05/2020 - 19:19

  We're at a point now where technology is no longer a barrier (e.g. crystal clear HD conferencing, no lag remote desktop).

  Not for everyone though, take me for example. I'll either get a blurry livestream that looks like 240p quality or not be able to connect at all due to "connectivity issues"

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    811b11e8 on 21/05/2020 - 21:23

    Where do you live?

    Buy a Telstra Sim with a decent mobile and tether.

    My workplace sent out 4g dongles to employees with poor NBN connections and now everyone has smooth video.

    A good internet connection is less than public transport.

    Unless your regional in valley it shouldn't be an issue.

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      Zachary on 24/05/2020 - 13:01

      Ah, if the company supplies the required internet connection, then I guess it's alright then…

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  OzzyOzbourne on 21/05/2020 - 22:57

  Back to the office within 6 months, but it won't be like normal.

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  daddydirtsurfer on 21/05/2020 - 23:30

  -4

  I wouldn't want a vaccine, it's not gonna cure you instead of trying to kill you.

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  crob on 22/05/2020 - 07:45

  never stoped going to the office… man I need a holiday

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  almck123 on 22/05/2020 - 09:57

  My workplace (a medium to large engineering consultancy) ordered us back to work three weeks ago to placate clients where we have a physical presence in.

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  Hangryuman on 22/05/2020 - 10:13

  more working from home - more casual employers taking great care to vary the hours of their zero-hours part-time casual staff so they don't fall under the aegis of the latest court decision that permanent casual staff with predictable regular hours should have paid leave as for permanent employees.

  so - more 'consultant/agent/associates' working from home on even more tenuous zero-hours contracts - while still being worked to the max like food delivery bicycles - 5 seconds to respond or miss the job !

  and insurers removing COVID from their contracts - so they don't have that risk anymore …

  and $3 an hour ? - jump for it ! $hitty job$ for you - and $hitty job$ for you

  oh sorry the director can't be contacted right now - he's on his private jet on the way to his other private island …

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  trapper on 22/05/2020 - 11:00

  +1

  It's going to be much less than six months.

  In WA and SA you can essentially go back to the office now. The other states are not far behind.

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  Trioboy on 22/05/2020 - 12:30

  lol, my work spent thousands of dollars to make an agile working environment just few months ago. Now we may have to undo everything.

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  Gnostikos on 22/05/2020 - 17:35

  I really wish NSW and VIC would stop speaking for the rest of the country and pushing their mindless one-size-fits-all recovery approach to the other states that are not the same galaxy in terms of COVID-19 threat level as they are.

  In WA we're already back in the office and "essential" workers like myself were never out-of-the-office entirely since February; at best I had 2 WFH days per week.

  Our company has basically left it up to the employee's discretion whether they want to WFH or in-office and currently we have one half of the workforce who were incredibly eager return to the office and the other half are continuing to WFH and likely will do so for the foreseeable future for whatever reason (better work-life balance, raising children, long commute times, etc.)

  I know of at least two dozen other big corporations with hundreds of staff (including big names like BHP and Rio Tinto) in the city that have made the same decision.

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  whooah1979 on 23/05/2020 - 08:26

  Back at work in June. A second wave in July. New lockdown in August.

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