A Petition To Restore The Work/Life Balance to Work From Home

Many have been pushed back into offices in a time where inflation has hit everyone like never before. Working from home alleviated that, plus it allowed for time for many to manage their physical and mental health with the time they saved leaving the house to commute. Additionally, many turned down other opportunities to work at companies who offered work from only for that work from home perk to be removed over some nonsensical domineering lame excuse of "cause we said so" by the bosses. Here's a petition we are hoping will have an impact. Please sign. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions...ct=psac-bc-regional-newsletter-for-may-2026&&;

Two friends work from home, one is a tech support other is supply chain manager. Both do very well, basically on call 24/7. Being in an office would make no difference in their job. I think there are a lot of jobs like that, if you are doing scheduling for service calls or tracking down orders and vendors, they can be done anywhere. My family doctor has his kid doing scheduling and book keeping for his office at home.. My accountant worked out of a home office. No commuting - a huge savings in time and money. No packing lunches or buying crap at Tim's. Work in your sweats or pyjamas, who cares. A lot of the "back to the office" bullshit comes from property managers peeing their pants over the collapse of office space value. If nobody has to be in an office why pay to rent one?

westwoody said: Two friends work from home, one is a tech support other is supply chain manager. Both do very well, basically on call 24/7. Being in an office would make no difference in their job. I think there are a lot of jobs like that, if you are doing scheduling for service calls or tracking down orders and vendors, they can be done anywhere. My family doctor has his kid doing scheduling and book keeping for his office at home.. My accountant worked out of a home office. No commuting - a huge savings in time and money. No packing lunches or buying crap at Tim's. Work in your sweats or pyjamas, who cares. A lot of the "back to the office" bullshit comes from property managers peeing their pants over the collapse of office space value. If nobody has to be in an office why pay to rent one? Click to expand... Well, part of the problem is Government owned buildings used for government employees. Taxpayers are paying both ways; wages and building costs. Empty buildings still cost $$$.

lukom said: Many have been pushed back into offices in a time where inflation has hit everyone like never before. Working from home alleviated that, plus it allowed for time for many to manage their physical and mental health with the time they saved leaving the house to commute. Additionally, many turned down other opportunities to work at companies who offered work from only for that work from home perk to be removed over some nonsensical domineering lame excuse of "cause we said so" by the bosses. Here's a petition we are hoping will have an impact. Please sign. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions...ct=psac-bc-regional-newsletter-for-may-2026&&; Click to expand... are you willing to work for less $ to stay home public sector get your ass in the office

Plus.... Many of the merchants, mostly places for lunch, suffered badly during covid in areas where they catered to the office worker. I also wonder about bosses or supervisors trust in office workers "hours of work" claimed on their time cards, when they work from home.

I support work from home for most situations. 1. many of those office buildings should be sold if owned, or terminate the lease if rented. If they are just offices then rationalize them to make better financial sense. 2. Not doing your job at home? Yeah, anyone complaining about that has never had a job. There are plenty of people who are 'employed' but don't do any work both public and private sector. 3. Rather than the government subsidizing gas prices, let gov employees work from home. 4. Like any other government situation, there will be people who rip off the system, but it's usually such a small percentage that the cost of imposing more surveillance or hiring more managers totally outweighs the tiny cost of slackers. 5. Conservatives should grow up and stop shitting their pants about everything that has little to do with them.

I doubt a petition is going to make any difference in this topic. You have an employer. And you have an employee. Job conditions are set out by the employer, and the employee either agrees to them or finds another job. If the job conditions violate the labour laws well that's a different topic. Covid times brought in a whole new set of circumstances where there was a confluence of a lot of things we had not had before. Web meetings for one. And mass "work at home" needs. Was that a more productive way of working? Did it invite time theft? Personally, I am all for work at home as long as the employee really is trusted. In some cases, changing a commute from an hour each way to a 22 second trip from kitchen to home office can offer productivity increases that are phenomenal, not just in time saved but in morale. Anyway, best of luck with this project.

Pumped said: I support work from home for most situations. 1. many of those office buildings should be sold if owned, or terminate the lease if rented. If they are just offices then rationalize them to make better financial sense. 2. Not doing your job at home? Yeah, anyone complaining about that has never had a job. There are plenty of people who are 'employed' but don't do any work both public and private sector. 3. Rather than the government subsidizing gas prices, let gov employees work from home. 4. Like any other government situation, there will be people who rip off the system, but it's usually such a small percentage that the cost of imposing more surveillance or hiring more managers totally outweighs the tiny cost of slackers. 5. Conservatives should grow up and stop shitting their pants about everything that has little to do with them. Click to expand... Nothing to do with the tax payers Really What this country needs to do is quit subsidizibg people and busnessies and let the chips fall where they will. Instead of catering to every public sector whim Get back to the office Or take less pay

I never liked working from home. Going to the office gives opportunities to interact with your coworkers face to face, instead of doing so over chat. Another small benefit is being able to stop by your favorite MP or SP after work 😄 The ability to occasionally work from home when needed (waiting for cable guys, plumbers etc) is great.

asf_post said: I never liked working from home. Going to the office gives opportunities to interact with your coworkers face to face, instead of doing so over chat. Another small benefit is being able to stop by your favorite MP or SP after work 😄 The ability to occasionally work from home when needed (waiting for cable guys, plumbers etc) is great. Click to expand... I like the option of both.

Should have really added this to my previous post and that is when coming into the office a guy does get to meet the women co-workers. All points of not fucking in your backyard etc are well taken, but by god I sure wish I had banged my secretary back in the day. One of my real regrets!

Ok guys, major clean up on this thread and two folks are taking a couple of days off to learn to play nice with others. Can the insults and the sniping back and forth, or it's getting locked down.

Forum mod said: (snip) Can the insults and the sniping back and forth, or it's getting locked down. Click to expand... Can it? Man, I haven't heard that in a good minute. I'm guessing we're around the same age. 😉

westwoody said: Two friends work from home, one is a tech support other is supply chain manager. Both do very well, basically on call 24/7. Being in an office would make no difference in their job. I think there are a lot of jobs like that, if you are doing scheduling for service calls or tracking down orders and vendors, they can be done anywhere. My family doctor has his kid doing scheduling and book keeping for his office at home.. My accountant worked out of a home office. No commuting - a huge savings in time and money. No packing lunches or buying crap at Tim's. Work in your sweats or pyjamas, who cares. A lot of the "back to the office" bullshit comes from property managers peeing their pants over the collapse of office space value. If nobody has to be in an office why pay to rent one? Click to expand... I do think their is need for a "office" if not to work there, but to connect to others in person in the same office. Mechanics will always have to go into the garage to fix and do maintenance. Office workers do need to do things at the office, but if it is on the computer, remote operation is a possibility, as long as its in the same city. You need to put a distance on your leash. What prevents a IT worker from working in Mexico, but suddenly he needs to go in and work on the main computer or server?? This is why you need limits. People working from home are actually getting paid more. They don't have to commute into the office compared to people that do need to come in. So prices should adjust accordingly. I like Timmies... I think I'll go there now..

The cottage industry. An idea from the 60s where every one worked from home... With todays technology it can be done. Its funny that unions were brought into being due to bad work conditions and safety of the people working. In the last 40 years there has been a big push to get rid of unions, if so does that mean we lose "Labour Day" in September... Sick leave, doctors appointments, the right to go vote on a working day, overtime, working conditions, harassment, accumulation of sick days, Holiday pay, double/triple pay on holidays, paid leave, lunch breaks and coffee breaks, safety. So much has been earned by unions in the past... now being slowly erroded by bean-counter trying to save the company money and increase profits.

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I much prefer an in office situation. Great for spir of the moment collaboration. I find that taking us out of the town square as it were, makes it easier to separate and isolate us from each other and thus easier to control and manipulate.

The best ideas, most creative solutions and most efficient use of time have all been done in collaboration. Sometimes it was just bullshitting in the lunch room, but it always happened because of working around others. Working from home was a luxury, and for a lot of people, they have no discipline to work alone. I would never employ anyone who demanded to work from home. Start a petition? Welcome to unemployment.

Commuting distance really needs balancing. Wouldn't think about working from home if only a five minute drive to meet colleagues. For communities up the Fraser Valley I thing the problem looks as simple as having proper width sidewalks on both sides of every street.

I allow WFH where most of my competitors all require employees to be in the office. The advantage to me is I get to pay a lower salary, have lower office costs, and dont have to deal with people getting stuck in traffic or being unable to show up to work due to weather. My employees also work harder knowing they want to WFH and if they screw things up that opportunity is gone.