[quote=sdrealtor][quote=Coronita][quote=XBoxBoy]It’s funny. We keep talking about tech workers, but the other day I called a company’s customer service and while I’m on the line with the service rep. I could hear her also telling her kid that she needed to be quiet while mom’s on the phone. I guess she could have brought her kid into work, but I suspect she was working from home. And if you think about it, she’s saving money because she doesn’t need to pay child care, and the company is able to get a low wage worker that they otherwise might not have been able to. I don’t think this work from home thing is just about high paid tech workers.[/quote]
It’s also school district employees, who called just a few days ago, and she said she’s not in the office and she’s working from home so it’s best to reach her via email….[/quote]
And it’s health care workers also. One family member meets with a therapist over zoom. Another family member just took a work from home job counseling patients with hearing issues.
Much of the mortgage industry is wfh now also. It’s a tech wave but has created many other ripples[/quote]
Telemedicine will be commonplace, I don’t think that trend will reverse. My wife’s doing it. It’s very very VERY efficient. Having bodies late and milling about an office slows things down. Obviously some issues will require physical presence, but a shocking number do not.
38x more telehealth encounters than prepandemic…but now stabilizing…
