[throw8932894]

My country has new rule about minimal square space per employee. Capacity of our office is now reduced to 20%. 80% employees have to work from home, they do not fit into our office.

If this rule is permanent, companies may not be able to afford office space. WFH may become "new normal" bcos it is only thing company can afford.

In old days, flu spread in office like wild fire. Companies outsourced negative externalities (sick leave and sick holidays) to their employees. Now we have way more transmissible viruses and probably new regulations.

[djrogers]

> Now we have way more transmissible viruses and probably new regulations.

That’s incorrect and largely irrelevant. We have one virus that’s more dangerous, but not necessarily more transmissible than the flu, measles, or the common cold (and demonstrably less transmissible than many viruses).

Unless you are of the irrational belief that we have somehow reached a point in history when serial deadly pandemics are the norm instead of the exception, then there’s no reason that we can’t go back to a world where we can work in person again...

Wether we want to or not is the relevant question.

[throw8932894]

I think we are way past rationality. I do not see how we can go back to normal.

Hygiene rules will change, and companies have to adapt.

[xornox]

High enough human population leads to continuous pandemics. It is law of nature and can not be changed.