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People have significant others and children at home. Even people that work remote full time will be taking a productivity hit during the COVID-19 disruptions. I fear companies are going to look at the decreased productivity and conclude that remote work isn’t viable for them.

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They should first discount the major productivity loss that's caused by people nervously refreshing news about COVID-19 all day long. That's not the fault of remote work, and will hopefully go away with the virus.

Still, many don't have the space to work distration-free with children at home when schools are closed. Open-plan offices can be noise, young children at home tend to be noisier.

My manager(people manager) has the same opinion. But in reality he is afraid that people might question what's does he do anyway if every one works from home. Companies are going to find out people managers job are really not as important.

In my companies it's the managers telling people to work from home when possible and parents asking to come in at least every other day to have some hours of distraction-free work.

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