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thommyjo said:
I think it’s the nature of the work. If outcomes and success are easily tracked, or individual contributions are easily seen on company success, then it’s easier to be remote. But larger orgs and more bureaucracy help bad employees hide. Being in office at least forces them to hate their job if they’re going to be lazy.
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100% this. There are certain types of jobs that translate well to WFH, and others that don't. I know in my particular field, I actually get better productivity out of my WFH employees because they are more likely to put in extra time on the job (time that they would have spent commuting!).
 
Gus Haynes said:
100% this. There are certain types of jobs that translate well to WFH, and others that don't. I know in my particular field, I actually get better productivity out of my WFH employees because they are more likely to put in extra time on the job (time that they would have spent commuting!).
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Ehhh. A lot of workers just really benefit in terms of productivity from being left alone, and being in an environment that is actually tailored to work rather than one which is tailored to excessive levels of supervision.
 
IanO said:
For me it's about the heart of your city argument, what WE want to communicate to investors, how we welcome tourists and what we desire to become as a city.
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Ian, we do a mediocre job at best of welcoming tourists or even newcomers to our city. We don’t even have a tourist information office downtown anymore because money saved was going to be spent on more online campaigns to attract more tourists. But that at a starting point is a failure of inviting people over and having your front door locked when they arrive.
 
Gus Haynes said:
Well, that too. There are really a lot of reasons why home environments are better than office ones: better nutrition, better bathroom access, fewer distractions (arguable, I acknowledge!), in addition to the massive time savings, of course.
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Yeah, and when it comes to those time savings, you're going to be benefitting from that whether they use that time for more work or not (I would definitely always discourage anyone under me from getting into the habit of using that commute time to do more work). If your people have more time to take care of their lives, sleep, eat right, get some exercise, and they're not as stressed, they're going to give more in the hours when they are producing.

(Edit: Though in my case for one of the projects I've been working on, my client would've admittedly burned at least a work day in limited productivity travel time on their dime to have me come to their admittedly very cool office/lab/nerd farm, in addition to a bunch of other logistics.)
 
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YEG imagineer said:
Ian, we do a mediocre job at best of welcoming tourists or even newcomers to our city. We don’t even have a tourist information office downtown anymore because money saved was going to be spent on more online campaigns to attract more tourists. But that at a starting point is a failure of inviting people over and having your front door locked when they arrive.
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... and our far away train station and no direct transit to the airport from downtown and so on. Yes, our city is very consistent in this poor job of welcoming tourists. They are at best an afterthought.
 
Edmonton has long been the red headed stepchild totally ignored by the rest of the country. It is time for Edmontonians to let everyone know we are important and we matter. No more timidity or deference to some other region. We should always be first in line.
How is that for a pep talk?
 
whattheheck said:
Edmonton is its own worst enemy. We talk a big talk, but the actions and follow through are lacking.
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I don't think Edmonton talks a big talk. Actually, as a recent-ish arrival, I think the way Edmontonians are constantly putting down Edmonton is off-putting on a personal level and works against its interests economically. Heck, even the Chamber of Commerce can't say much more than "Hey, At Least We're Affordable!"
 
constance_chlore said:
I don't think Edmonton talks a big talk. Actually, as a recent-ish arrival, I think the way Edmontonians are constantly putting down Edmonton is off-putting on a personal level and works against its interests economically. Heck, even the Chamber of Commerce can't say much more than "Hey, At Least We're Affordable!"
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Yeah the amount of people in this city who constantly go "oh why choose Edmonton, Edmonton sucks, Deadmonton" is ridiculously annoying. It has to take outsiders to say "your city isn't that bad" to get some of it to stop.
 
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To convert an existing office building to a Residential Use building in the form of a 344 Dwelling Multi-unit Housing, reference dev pre-app #631566307-001
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constance_chlore said:
Actually, as a recent-ish arrival, I think the way Edmontonians are constantly putting down Edmonton is off-putting
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I agree 100% -- even when some become aware of their negative tone they keep on bashing or at best offer back-hand complements comparing Edmonton to how great other places are in alignment. "Off-putting" to put it mildly.
 
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