WFH

GeneralSEOD

>hey everyone we're about to run out of jet fuel >stock market (airlines +12%) okay dude. I'm seeing COVID tier rumours that we're about to institute mandatory WFH again, Cars are about to have no fuel. Meanwhile, Uber is up. ON WHAT. Taxi Drivers not working anymore? Based, uber is now a camel hiring company

orsomeshitidk

When the national average gets above $5/gal I’m telling my hybrid job I’m fully WFH until it’s back below, unless they wanna pay milage on my commute lmao

the_real_me_2534

The US is a Net hydrocarbon exporter so while the broader economy will take a hit you're about to see a boom in crude and natural gas. People drive less now thanks to WFH so the effect will be more muted and we've also got millions of EV's on the road. Thus there won't be fuel shortages here unlike many other countries in Asia and Europe which are or will experience them. This is not great for the economy but it's not going to be Armageddon either and the US is better positioned to take this than just about any other country in the world.

Opposite_Day_9771

India imports 60% of its oil from the Gulf. They're WFH to save gas.

zuziannka

WFH is weird all I do is sleep and get paid

0H_MAMA

Gas was $4 in central texas this morning. I guess the only other time it got this high was 2022 when I wasn't driving a lot because of WFH so didn't notice. Insane.

interstellara_

WFH and a day off from school means my loved ones are all here. we chillin but i'm not telling the teen i'm scared of nukes.

wenchanger

believe it or not, many americans are siding with trump to take maximum and extreme measures. Lots of people can't afford the high fuel prices and their bosses aren't likely allowing them to WFH to save money

Slow-Information-847

Buy Oil on every DIP! This is WFH War! no one will quit until they all run out of ammos! And they have all run out of miltary targets already. Gretta's dream will come true by the time when they are done.

wenchanger

too bad my boss won't let me WFH to save on fuel

No_Current3675

Fuck it, breh. I have a retarded "lunch n learn" or whatever the fuck on Wednesday. I'm WFH today, zero fucking sense in commuting more than 1 day/week. Shit is completely fkd but I hold enough power to dictate my own schedule to my fucking employer. Cunts.

981flacht6

I'm ok with some WFH coming back. We shouldn't have pivoted away from it.

Ancient_Sun_2061

Covid era companies, WFH gonna be back lol

orsomeshitidk

My WFH Friday lunch beverage tradition today (that yall promised not to tell that bitch in HR, Tammy about) is Pendleton Rye with cream soda Dr Pepper. It’s good. Could really go hard on this on the 🅱️IG 🅱️eautiful day

orsomeshitidk

Instead of liberation day, I’m having a libation day- cause ya boy WFH today and I’m having a drink(or 2) at lunch. Don’t tell that bitch Tammy in HR. I mean it, bro pls don’t.

Total_Schedule591

New WFH Opportunity: Fly drones remotely to help war guys from your bedroom. Pay based on KD

HoneyBadger552

with WFH about to happen again, their profits should moon as people get fatter

Opposite_Day_9771

I'm hoping mandatory WFH to save gas.

Dbestinvest

WFH on WFH off….we are about to be on again..fuel rations

Neat_Weird_2240

make WFH normal again 🤡

HaikusfromBuddha

Oddly enough Oracle has been okay with WFH.

Leading_Form_8485

WFH coming back. No one is gonna go out. COVID 2

gkdjsl

Higher energy costs will pop the AI bubble this year. Other countries are already doing mandatory WFH one day per week, lights off for businesses after 9 PM, etc... This is COVID all over again, where you have some spatial and temporal buffer in the US and people are in denial about it happening here.

calm_discussion_3500

Not just green, almost +20% including dividends for S&P 500. A spectacular year. People were home jacking off literally doing nothing early months of WFH.

ChoosingUnwise

expect more WFH, commercial real estate will go from trash to super trash

interstellara_

I own a plug in hybrid. the gas can become stale if i don't use it within 6ish months, so i just try to fuel up every six months by not always plugging it in during the last month. however we WFH and I don't drive a lot, so this is super doable for me; i have to remember to use my car once a week

Salty-Bid1597

The WFH superpower. 

AgtDALLAS

Think the UK is already requesting people WFH.

orsomeshitidk

Anyway it’s my Friday WFH tradition to have a Modelo chelada lime y sal at lunch so I’m gonna get to it. Don’t tell that bitch Tammy in HR about my ritual bro, pls

chiswis

can we WFH now?

dljmonkeyboiz

Factories shutting down, lines at gas stations, limiting ability to drive vehicles and WFH … no shortage of oil here. it’s all good guys.

HandsomeTod11

I WFH 👨🏽‍💻

HandsomeTod11

WFH gang feeling like a king seeing these gas prices

ScarletHarpy93

The first waves of layoffs in the end of 2022, beginning of 2023, were about pulling back from WFH, eliminating low performers en masse, and testing to see which functions broke and which were necessary for continued functioning of the businesses. The second waves of layoffs in the end of 2023, beginning of 2024, were about consolidation and elimination of WFH completely and forcing people back into office real estate whose pricing threatened to become an albatross on corporate balance sheets due to changes in US GAAP in 2022 to bring it in line with practices in EU GAAP-equivalents. This third wave of hiring is targeted attrition at bad bets made in the last decade which haven't played out. Most of Meta's cuts are in the Meta piece, with some trimming of remaining fat in social. Amazon cut places like Devices, Games, drones, etc. that were either supposed to be expansions for their AWS money maker, or cost savings for their online store. Similar stories in the rest of big tech. A lot of these bad bets are being closed to free up revenue to pay for massive commitments in CAPEX towards AI infrastructure. None of these cuts are AI driven yet. If you're in big tech, you're probably watching dozens of small pilot programs internally to automate jobs away, but very few of those have had a full year to run yet. You can fully expect that if any of them show real returns in scaling up productivity or reducing the need for people, that those will be reflected in ongoing cuts throughout the next two years.

Independent-Tree-985

its remote work, not WFH. Theyre being retarded headline baiters. A FPV drone is a remote work

ConstantAd1

>Iran’s attacks force US troops to work remotely - NYT. can you WFH in a war?

No_Current3675

Sausage & peppers for lunch. I love WFH.

WarmCan3034

WFH 🥰

AlaskanSnowDragon

1. Its crazy for you to think someone would hold through a 15% drop and several circuit breakers. Even during covid didn't drop that much in a single day. 2. Which is also why I said in another comment you dont have options positions if you're not able to monitor them constantly. I WFH and always have the markets/news up. 3. Given their only weeklies it give plenty of space to roll if decided. You're talking like the most widely traded liquid markets would suddenly go illiquid. 4. The first circuit breaker is 7%...not 20% Nothing is without risks. But if you're going to let something that happens "typically less than 0.1% based on historical frequency" drive your investing/trading then you should just be all in on bonds.

Technical-Emu-32

Ok boomer. We call it remote work. Or WFH. Or work from Mexico

1098duc_w_the_termi

Vibe trading while WFH and playing Dramatic Girl by Baby Keem in the background. It’s gonna be a good Friday

Antique_Cabinet8416

can gas hit 10/gallon so we can go back to full time WFH for those of us who are still employed? xo

RoyalFail6

Thankful that we have WFH still widely supported to minimize the impact inflation has on our abundant incomes 😼

BellacosePlayer

WFH went away? news to me

OscarF2P

>What even is the play. They should raise rates to 8%. They should have done this long ago. They should be asking office workers to go back to a hybrid/WFH while the straight is closed. They should be pushing EVs. They should eliminate environmental regulations and open up 5 new government owned oil refineries to refine the oil we pull out of the ground & not foreign oil. Make them part of the strategic oil reserve. We should make exporting our oil illegal again. We should build oil pipelines to bypass the straight. We should eliminate solar panel tariffs. Offer 0% loans for solar on your roof. Get rid of solar & wind farm zoning permitting. Get 30 day turn around for grid approval for solar & wind farms. We should quit going to war in the middle east. Close our bases. Let them kill each other. Quit giving isreal $. We should build high speed rail between major cities. We should drastically raise taxes on non-owner occupied homes. We should get rid of the ethanol mandate to help lower food prices. Get rid of the tariffs and create a tax system like clear air credits except for manufacturing. You want to sell shoes like nike? You better have some manufacturing shoes credits. You can sell all the shoes under $60 you want. Low priced stuff isn't included. Start making good long term decisions.

svezia

Companies pay billions in office space with zero proven benefits vs WFH

Vlookup_reddit

Let's not pretend corporates believe in academia when in comes to labor. We know WFH is good for productivity, so do no stack ranking, 4 days work week, affordable housing. And here we are, in the year of 2026, with RTO mandates going around like there is no tomorrow, stack ranking, 996, company town making a comeback.

nostrademons

The structural damage is actually a positive. I bet sales of EVs, batteries, and solar panels are going to skyrocket when we’re faced with $20/gallon gas. We might even get WFH, like they’re doing in many Asian crises in response to this. And the chip shortage will prick the AI bubble and allow that capital to be deployed toward more productive uses, which will also lessen the pressure on electricity demand. Who knew that Trump would herald in the green revolution through his inept foreign policy? That and hand leadership over to more competent folks over in China. America first! Fuck yeah!

endofworldandnobeer

WFH anyone?

AdamJensensCoat

I was running DSL in my SF apartment up until the pandemic. The only other option was Comcast and that’s basically like signing a contract with satan. When WFH started I had no choice but to give in.

NonsensicalWorries

Turns out vehemently demanding WFH made companies realize they can just hire cheaper workers from anywhere else in the fucking world. Millenials pulling up the ladder just like their predecessors.

orsomeshitidk

If gas gets above $5 here, where it was like $2.30 a couple weeks ago, I’m not going into the office I’m WFH until it’s back down dog. I’m not paying European gas prices without European healthcare and vacation time, you fuckin kidding me?

Shot-Welcome-2822

They about to come out and push the WFH model next week

mmmpiecrust

Having a PHEV myself and a sample size of 1, I plug mine in twice a day if I’m doing a ton of off highway driving. Otherwise it’s nightly for my commute. Gas on highway, EV on surface streets. Odometer after 5 years has me at 88mpg (rip WFH, had that bad boy at 112mpg a few years back!) I love PHEVs and wish there were more of them to choose from. If the range was 50-75miles I’d buy a new one today

L0ng_St03Ger

We should all just go back to mandatory WFH. it'll crash prices back down for a bit  Hell, Elmo could come out again taking about how Tesla is making cars that run off his ego and pull will crash to near zero again.  Remember 2017 anyone?

Potential_zero

Looks like WFH is bavk on the menu whether uoutmr employer like it or not.

Fineous40

I hope this means I get to WFH again

orsomeshitidk

I am going to insist to be fully WFH if gas gets above $5 for however long that lasts lol tf you think this is, Europe?

dont_downvote_SPECIL

Thankfully still WFH

furnace9monkey

I WFH and don't use my car a whole lot. I paid $2.69 a few weeks back and went back to the same station on Sunday and paid $3.29. my wife filled up her car yesterday at the same station and paid $3.59 😠

Concerned_Fanboy

had to look up what WFH stood for

Bam2458

Uhh why doesn’t everyone in the world just WFH and drive an EV? Are they stupid?

Extreme_Green_1708

Shout out to everyone who goes into a job that isn’t paying worth the shit and now having to pay more for gas money. Hopefully this spike doesn’t last long for you guys. CEOs who hate their wife and kids will do anything but let people WFH.

LostandConfused2024

Time to WFH until the war is over boys

oddlogic

Look - you’re: 1) an actual human, interested in his sole position 2) agentic, yourself 3) leading a junior grade effort at intel gathering at a research desk as an intern, posing as an antagonist and thick witted Redditor. In any case, it doesn’t really matter to me. I’m a single data node that you’ll collect along the way, and I don’t care to give my opinion freely. I’ve been an RPA dev for a decade now, starting with AutoIT and selenium, and graduating through various products, IDP programs, and shaking fists at enough consultants to keep my heart going well enough, I suppose. But the fact is that when I look out across beat up software names, as an amateur investor with a few hundred thousand in the market to play with at any given time, UiPath would be a trade. Only. They are not going into a long term portfolio. Service Now? Yes. Buy it. Salesforce? Absolutely. CRWD? Are you kidding? Like they haven’t had AI and security on their lips for 5 years already? But UiPath? Why would I ever? Maybe they get a sympathetic bounce here. They may even make it into the next decade - but if they do, it won’t be doing what they are now. They have to pivot completely and make AI the marketable commodity, or die. And their current business model makes no room for that. As someone who has sat with UiPath reps for small ($500k licenses per year) with my old company, I can tell you - they were not impressed with the cost, the scaling ability, the meaningful reduction in head count. It was a buzz word to kick off the exit of Covid, in our time of WFH efficiency seeking. They didn’t like it where I came from (global energy), and saw it as parasitic, at best, and they don’t like it where I am now (leading US healthcare insurance) This company will implode.

_bessica_

We always only get half a tank. We both WFH and don't drive much right now so it's just cost effective. Tuesday my husband had to drive a little for work and said he was filling it up. Prices went up Wednesday.

fratticus_maximus

Having a chill job while WFH feels like the GOAT. It's not as stressful as running your own business. You get consistent pay and can enjoy your life more in between work. During the work day, I have to stay near the laptop but I spend free time on my hobbies in between work. It's great.

DirtyTacoKid

Move all possible US jobs overseas Economy collpases. Who could have seen this coming? It really accelerated during Covid. "Oh your job can be WFH? I think you mean work from India! Bye!"

Salty-Bid1597

Everyone knows this. The people who write those studies also WFH and don't want it to stop.

internetf1fan

As someone who WFH half the week, I have to laugh at all the studies claiming WFH is more productive. I pretty much just sleep in and play games while at home... who else does the same?

legible_print

This is all just a reminder to fully embrace WFH culture

Pereise1

> She also said the US president monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago and will continue to do so with his national security team. LOL we really got a WFH war monger

PapiGoneGamer

WFH

ServeValuable6460

I enjoy hybrid WFH but I miss the days I’d go to the office and play with my coworkers tits after everyone else left for the day

UberBrah12

"You are a ##-year-old man with the heart of a kid and the brain of a forensic expert. That is a lethal combination. **How about we leave it there for tonight?** Break your fast, get some rest, and enjoy the WFH silence tomorrow." few are better hype men than AI

AirportMaterial5917

Blizzard WFH will be good for the markets right

Graevus15

Playing it on their phones while living in the park I figure. It's the Tent Works Lifestyle Change: its like going camping forever!!! Bonus points if you camp out behind the Wendy's.. Its a work/life balance thing. Low commute is always good, but WFH is not an option when your work is cheap BJ's... Respect the dumpster.

Character_Set3454

Demand is like energy though, it's displaced, not destroyed. I also think there's this belief that somehow every company is going to be the CEO/owner and 40,000 chatbots  I don't see it working like that.  At the end of the day, like I said, maybe 10-20% reduction in workforce, which is still a massive number. One of the key issues that automation has always had to contend with is insurance.    You can't simply replace massive elements of most businesses with AI and hope to maintain your insurance. There has to be liability in the system, someone to blame.    I was talking to someone in medical fields who was really nervous about AI and detection of cancers and the like.. but you are still going to need a human being overseeing it. Not because the human may be superior to the system. Often that's not the case, but because liability and insurance requires it. There has to be someone to blame if things go sideways, you can't simply shrug your shoulders and say "lol, oops, it was the machine LOL, sucks to suck I guess". There's lots of places where employment persists because courts exist. Not only that but there's this idea that once workers lose their job, that's it, they will never be employed again. But unemployed losers who don't want to work have a career now, the "influencer". Its shiny and new, and all kinds of worthless bottom feeders with nothing of real value to offer anywhere else have joined this exciting new avenue of being a clown on the internet because you completely lack self respect.  Every technology that has ever existed has displaced people, and despite that somehow, with more people than we have ever had in human history, the vast majority of them still, in fact, have jobs.  There's nothing I see on the horizon within the next decade that leads me to believe that we will be rounding up "the Poor's" and will just be feeding them feet first into the soylet green machine.  I think that there is a path forward that will fundamentally shift society forever in a way that has not existed since before the industrial revolution. That being AR for corporate use. Where you get the benefits of WFH with the benefits of "in-person" collaboration in that it will allow companies to leave the large corporate buildings, and their obscene costs, allow merit based hiring, instead of hiring only thr best that's willing to relocate, or already in the area, reduce overall energy waste, and allow workers more free time because they don't have to commute, and they can live anywhere they want.. which will allow people to leave shithole cities with their high costs, endless issues, endless cost increases.     That shift will shake the foundation of society as we know it, removing the power of the big city, which might see them collapse due to gross mismanagement and an inability to adapt due to corruption and incompetence.  I think that's the most efficient path forward, but, it's also a long way off, there's a lot of tech that needs to be created and fine tuned before we go that route, if we do. TL:DR; I don't think the doomer future where 70% of jobs are 100% AI will ever materialize. Corporations dislike liability and risk far too much. If you can get 20-30% more productivity out of an AI+human while still maintaining controls that limit liability and satisfies the insurance requirements... Then that's probably as good as it gets. For a while anyways, probably longer than my expected lifetime. 

Gigi_Langostino

>Not sure why this time would be any different than 2008. For starters these weren't high-risk loans; no one expected a global pandemic that would force people to work from home for months/years, and then return to the office only part time, or use WFH/blended working as a point of negotiation on job offers. Anyway, time to go back to the office now, or RFK will throw you in autism camp.

Substantial_Cable169

Lots of people are either conveniently forgetting or ignoring the fact that we had cheap RAM/Flash storage prices, specifically dropped at around 2023/2024 because people were buying electronics like crazy at the beginning of covid and in 2021/2022. Because of that companies like samsung micron etc anticipated more demand and increased supply, only for the covid restrictions to be loosened or removed worldwide starting 2023/2024. So people stopped caring about electronics and started going out doing stuff instead, WFH was being phased out, all that dramatically increased the supply of RAM and other electronics thus the significantly cheap memory prices. Fast forward to 2025, Flash memory manufacturers anticipated dramatic drop in demand due to no covid restrictions, no wfh, and reduced the supply. Then suddenly, AI datacenters started hoarding all the RAM and storage and GPUs, so they ran out of supply earlier than the normally would. This tells us that the flash storage manufacturing is either a very complex business where the margins are razor thin so they have to try very hard to maintain the balance between supply or demand, or the executives working at these manufacturing companies are COMPLETE FUCKING MORONS LIVING IN OPPOSITE LAND and we will see dramatic increase in supply in the next two years, and then AI bubble will pop and the same thing will happen again.

mtnrnnr802

I have my own business and WFH 😂

biotribe

I translate as ‘SaaS is dead, long live Agentics’ and ‘WFH = Office Obsolescence’. Cue the rotation… More curious however: do you personally know anyone, job or position that has been fully replaced by AI?

No_Current3675

Kids at school while the wife and I are WFH. Just got the green light to fuck later. **BULLISH**.

EvolvingDior

None of them are WFH, so they can all go pound sand.

jacknifetoaswan

I mean, I guess, but I'm stuck in a VHCOL area. I'm maxing my 401k, but after that, everything goes to rent and living expenses. With WFH ending for a lot of industries, the days of living in a VLCOL area and making high salaries may be over. Couple that with the fact that most people don't want to live in VLCOL areas because they're generally shitty, and that the price of consumer goods and food are up 25% or more, year over year, and, well...here we are.

Rearender29

Slept through the rally on my WFH day ),:

Blankcarbon

Don’t forget the absolute terrible RTO plan and removing WFH from Amazon. Just a complete shitshow that is paying for their practices.

YoungXanto

WFH expands the talent pool, much in the same way that off-shoring does. It's not necessarily a location-specific problem but a logistical one. Off-shoring means moving entire departments away from the leadership and into different cultural regimes. It certainly can work, but its quite different than having a team scattered across the US that reports to a director in NY that works alongside the rest of the senior management in a given company. We work with teams across the US anyway, so 3 hour time differences arent a huge deal. On the other hand, 12 hour time differences would be more likely to be problematic (though not necessarily deal breakers). We're currently going through a hiring cycle after moving to an on-site presence. The number of applications has dropped by orders of magnitude and the resumes that have been picked for interviews probably wouldn't have made the cut previously. Tl;Dr: comparing off-shoring to remote work is specious

Perfect_Painter_7863

Who also stares at reddit all day while WFH

FidgetyHerbalism

Kind of, I WFH and all I have to do is meet my metrics & occasionally be active on my primary and secondary monitors (there's a screenshot tracker). So I get to kick around Reddit a fair bit. And you know what irks me most on Reddit? People who've never read a BLS report in their fucking life (which *I* do professionally) making up shitty conspiracy theories about the agency which make the left look like morons who can't even understand the basic concept of forced time off work screwing with deadlines. Nothing worse than seeing people politically aligned with you making absolutely terrible arguments.

PaperHandsTheDip

They don't really have a large moat and their growth got rekt. During covid when everyone was WFH it popped off, then it just kinda died when things went back to normal. Was priced for massive growth, market dominance, etc, etc. Never came to fruitation and they've been struggling there

Schumpeter50

brutal feedback: don't do this. just put your money in an s&p index fund. you don't have any real comparative advantage here, and even professional hedge fund managers on average don't beat the index. i don't think this is gonna go well for you. put your money in an index fund, then take this extra time you have and spend it earning labor income somehow in the labor market, maybe via a remote WFH job. good luck.

dudeondacouch

it would be tough to pull off if you can't WFH or are retired. that's really the only issue with recommending it to others.

Power_Grumpus

Wait, I also work at the JPM Plano campus. If you just select the WFH - health reason option, they can't deny it. The roads are completely iced over. On the topic of this post, I'm very very much struggling with the same FIRE decisions you're facing, but with much less (about half) your net worth but still haven't. I need to find something to keep me engaged and challenged and although I hate JPM and the people here, it does provide that.

cryptohorn

I WFH so yea

Prune-Butter

Change fields to one in demand. There is a massive shortage of staff in the medical field. No one I work with in mine makes under $50.00 per hour and we’ve been short for years with people quitting and becoming a traveler for $90-$115.00 per hour. 100% match 401k, 10% discount on the company stock purchase plan, etc…and we still can’t get enough people. Everyone wants WFH jobs.

cryptohorn

One of my coworkers who WFH already lost power and nothings falling yet 😂

corundum9

exact same experience. bought an oz when it was clear covid was gonna keep me WFH for over a year. smoked once after an 8 year hiatus and it wasn't fun anymore. some people just mature and become alcoholics haha

neverending_light_

> telling employees they could move further away from the office given the new WFH policies during covid. surely this is some sort of constructive dismissal case?

tinyfred

As someone who worked there for over 4 years. Good. I have many friends who are still there and they announced yesterday mandatory 5 days back a week at the office, after specifically, on paper, telling employees they could move further away from the office given the new WFH policies during covid. Many moved over 1h away from the Montreal office, and now theyre forcing them back 5 days a week. All those employees are 100% going to quit. You'll also see some major layoffs. Company is going to absolute shit.