WFH is dead and buried. Right to WFH bill is pointless

You fail to remember it is the job of companies to remain profitable for their owners and shareholders, otherwise it is not sustainable. As regards their employees, it is not their job to " allow for families to have more children and reduce child care costs", as you put it, end of quote. Productivity of their employees is their number one concern, because in the competitive international marketplace their aim must be to be as profitable as possible, because if they do not have that aim their competitors will, and will put them out of business. Few businesses in the world would welcome an increased amount of children running around under their employees legs when they are working.

Hushed hybrid has been around for as long as I remember, decades. Usually under the term "local arrangement".

It's can be gone in an instant though if local management changes.

Trump is just making noise, it’s already been pointed out that it’s not enforceable and unions have told workers to continue working from home.

You cant create a law that says private companies must allow staff to WFH 2 days per week and not expect those companies to up and leave the country.

The employer pays you, not the govt.

If the company wants you in the office and thats what is in your contract, then thats what you do; the exact same as all the generations before us.

How about Coffee Badging.

Listen, if you only know someone's working by where they are. Then thats an admission you don't have productivity and output metrics. Because if you did you probably don't care where they are, because you know they are working. Those metrics will probably show who ever is taking the roll doesn't actually do much themselves. Which is probably why they don't have metrics.

There's not much minding in a 10 year old unless his child has special needs

I wish someone here would call out the people who have second jobs while wfh.

Fire ahead and provide us with the evidence of this statement my good man.

Never, ever, ever cite a claim made by Donald Trump in support of an argument that you are advancing. This gives the strong impresion that you have no credible evidence to support your argument — if you did, you would hardly be citing the likes of Trump. And if yoru argument has no credible evidence to support it, you probably don't want to draw attention to that fact.

You would be surprised. I am quite familiar, through a relation who works there, of a US multinational who had Irish people here wfh 4 years ago, but when the multinational saw that they could get other people in the far east who would do the same work more efficiently, they quietly let go a whole section of people in Ireland. Was cheaper just to get rid of them.

Trump has recalled US federal employees back to the office. Many if not most of the managers and shareholders in the US are Trump supporters. No big outcry in the States because everyone knows many if not most Federal employees there were not productive at home. Many double jobbing, playing golf and tennis, watching tv etc.

A good friend of mine lost her job in a US multinational because the work she and her colleagues were doing wfh was transfered abroad. So not a myth for her and her colleagues.

Ignore Trump and the US government if you want, no skin off my nose. However he has ordered all Federal employees back to the office saying they were only working 10% of the time while wfh.

That would be fine if my wage covered that cost specifically stated but since it does not no. That be like me been paid more if I am farther away or drive a car and someone else less as they do not have a car or work closer

Or some would say employees who look after a few toddlers or kids at home while wfh should take a pay cut to reflect the savings they make on childcare, to maintain cohesion amongst other employees who work in the office?

This return to office wave really seems to be an own goal. I work for a deep tech company and mainly work with India and West US colleages. That means that you catch people first thing in the morning and after 4pm our time. What is the actual point of myself being in the office? Our company is now going to 4 days in the office. The thing is the vast majority of our teams also work with India/west-US teams all day, every day. This is all from corporate in the US but the Irish boys have to follow. I had the foresight to negotiate a full remote contract when I joined which protects myself, but for how long? Like the frog in a boiling pot of water. Its not much good if I try to move company. I have been remote working since around March 2020. At first the novelty was great but I just fell into the routine very fast. I genuinely work more being at home. If I went into the office you can be sure I will not be taking calls at 7pm from the Americans.

So no actual evidence, just your opinions, thanks.

Again can you please provide a source for your double jobbing statement?

Not a US Trump said this source, a valid source that show's people are double jobbing while WFH in Ireland.

Would you define someone minding toddlers or kids at home as double jobbing?

We know Trump said said many of his Federal employees were playing tennis and golf while wfh. No big public outcry as everyone knows it goes on. Come on, people are not stupid.