Yup, that's called outsourcing. And its far from new that companies are attracted to lower income areas. It's very common that even if your HQ is in an expensive town, that the Operations is not. In OKC, Hertz would be a perfect example of that. HQ=New Jersey. Ops=OKC.
Anyone that does business in California knows that it's best to "get outta dodge" for Ops as soon as possible. It's simply too expensive and restrictive to make a profit for regular shared services environments. And when the US markets start looking too good for the employees, well we can't have that, so overseas we go.
My wife retired from Hertz at the end of the year. Spent 43 years, 3 months and a week there. Happily retired now.
Hertz started in OKC as a reservation center. And the reason they chose OKC was due to the central location in the country and the fact that phone service charges in the early 1970's was by the line mile. That's why a lot of res centers were started in the Great Plains.
That's interesting. My department and the part of the company we belong to as a whole were 20%-30% more productive while working from home. The company surprised everybody by instating a permanent work from home option for 2 days a week.
Just anecdotally, I find there are a lot fewer interruptions and distractions at home than at the office. At home, I don't have someone interrupting me every 10 minutes (granted I don't have kids).
I work with some of the city's largest employers. We have been told that having employees in the office is definitely more beneficial. There are too many opportunities to collaborate throughout the day. What I have learned is that the companies that were transitioning to work from home before the pandemic are headed that way but most of the large office environments are planning to grow their space.
Saw a news report the other day that a lot of employees have admitted to being high or using alcohol during work time while working from home.
What a shock! In theory, working from home sounds good. But in reality, being at the workplace is probably a better idea. You can see what your employees are doing, leading to better accountability. Then, on a social front, it leads to more social interaction. I'm a believer that in coming years, we're going to learn that doing things from home such as shopping, work, etc, leading to less social interaction, is going to have some bad ramifications.
I'd be interested to know that source, because everything I have read is that companies are shedding real estate like a wildfire and keeping users remote. What they are creating is smaller collaboration space offices where people come in as-needed or for meetings, then go right back home. Basically where the entire small office is one big hotelling space. Yes there are some out there that won't ever do that, but the cube farm isn't going to look the same as people re-work their spaces. It will still be a few years before we see how all of this settles out though.
same. and i can speak from personal experience at my company that we are significantly more productive at home than we ever were in office, and we now work 4 remote and 1 day in the office, and it's very easy to see that everyone's 1 day in the office is their least productive day. As a manager of a team, i'm torn, because i use the 1 day my team is in office to get done my one-on-ones, reviews, team meetings, etc. but it is without a doubt the day we get the least amount of actual company work done.
the real question. do those same employees also admit to being the ones that would go out to their cars and get high, or have a few cocktails at lunch before going back to the office? because i know a handful of fellow employees at every place i have worked at who used to do that a few times a week, for the past 2 decades...
I've actually been working from home since COVID started. And my alcohol consumption has dramatically increased. I am currently seeking help with a counselor.
i wish you well and hope you are able to get it under control. we went full remote at the start of covid, and just recently went to being in office one day a week, and strangely, my alcohol consumption has dramatically decreased. I don't find having to get home and feel like i need a whiskey to calm down from my drive, or the frustrations of work.
and granted both of our experiences are just anecdotal. and trust me, WFH was rough on my mentally for awhile. I had to adjust how i get social interactions with others, and that took probably six months. I really do wish you are successful with the help you have seeked out.
I drank a lot more in 2020 vs 2021. Starting in 2021, I took advantage of the WFH setup to focus on my mental and physical health. That trend is continuing to 2022. I hope the best to ones struggling with it. What benefited me was focusing on a hobby/goal I wanted, which make drinking a burden to those goals.
If you want to get actual information on how WFH/Remote affects productivity, you shouldn't look into what your company indicates to you, or any other anecdotal evidence. There are pros and cons to it. It depends on what your company values which determines if they want people back in the office or allows wfh/remote.
It's amazing just how conflicted the "research" is on all of this. The reality is that anyone doing real research should just be collecting data points for later review. We can't possibly know the real ramifications of WFH.
I suspect there are a lot of factors that pay into whether WFH might be more or less constructive and whether someone's health will be better or worse working from home depending on their job situation and living situation. I mean, we have someone in my office who commutes from Tulsa on a daily basis and they're actively seeking promotion within the company as opposed to trying to find their way out. I can imagine that there is a lot about the in office culture that the individual enjoys to seemingly enjoy that commute.
Even within the same company some departments might do better WFH and others might do better in the office.
I do find the interstate employment to be the most interesting element of all this and I suspect we'll see some legislation come to light if things get crazy enough.
We've definitely picked up on the remote hires at all levels, up to C-Suite. Unless you have to physically touch paper, most people are just being hired remotely from all over the US. And partly because technology is set up in a way where you can do that securely now without working with your pants down. But there are plenty of companies out there that did get caught without proper security...just google news stories over the pandemic about security breaches. The smaller businesses just can't always pay for the extra tools needed like the larger ones can (MFA/Traffic Scanning/etc). Of course, they may not be as much of a target as a larger one either. It's a crap-shoot.
My own organization is saving money in real estate, but shipping expenses have gone through the roof. And terminations are thus more complicated. I mean when someone is terminated, they usually aren't super cooperative with returning their gear. And that has been a definite challenge to stay on top of. I think it's too early to evaluate if the savings from real estate have shown to be an overall savings for the company because of extra efforts for recovery/analysis/etc for terminated users. It's just too early to really see where this stuff will settle.
I think things have forever changed, But I personally think we're currently seeing an extreme that will settle to a hybrid model in 5 years. But that's just my crystal ball outlook.
We continue to attract in-office employers adding about 600 jobs to OKC. Liberty Dental (150) and Signify Health (200) should be opening their facilities very soon. Consumer Cellular (300) to follow shortly thereafter. There are others in the works that have yet to announce.
More or less. They are back room operations such as customer service, billing, payment processing ect. All pay well.
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