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Source: Opinion: How working from home gave Canadians a big pay raise – and why nobody wants to give it up
I wrote this ⬇️ while reading ⬆️:
i wonder how much of the current strikers are focusing on remote working; big issuue or small?
“The pandemic’s biggest long-term impact may be on where we work. Forced to adapt to the previously unthinkable, millions of people discovered they rather liked it. For example, though this week’s strike by more than 150,000 federal public servants is in part about pay demands, the Public Service Alliance of Canada has also said it wants the flexibility to continue working from home written into any collective agreement.”
vacancy up 4x from 2019 to 2023.
“Employers are also doing their own math. Result: Despite the Canadian economy being at full tilt, with nearly 900,000 more people working than three years ago, office vacancies have soared. In downtown Toronto, the vacancy rate in late 2019 was 4.2 per cent, according to real estate firm Altus. It’s now 19 per cent. In Vancouver it’s 14.1 per cent. In Montreal it’s 18 per cent.”
“Economists have long searched for the big productivity payoff from the internet. Maybe this is it.”
