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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was no work life balance before 2020. We were all exhausted and stressed to the brink with the madness of commuting. And now life is much harder and more expensive. And it’s 2025…we are going backwards for no reason. Bring back telework for anyone who has a job that can telework. It’s good for everyone. For society as a whole.[/quote]

there was tons of work life balance pre -2020. I would think you have to go back to pre 1990 at earliest to have no work life balance Most people under 60 have never worked a real work week in their life. It was horrible at work in the 1970s and 1980s. Most have never seen it pre computers and automation where you were processing massive amount of work by being at work 12-13 hours a day with no breaks with people cursing and blowing smoke in your fact in a suit and tie or business suit with pantyhose.

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I started working in 1991. So yeah I remember all the no work life balance. It was and is brutal and unnecessary to not have it. Even after Sept 11, there was no work life balance for me. I’ve been in federal government for almost 10 years and it was only when I started that I got 1 telework day per week, then four, and now nothing. Anyone that had work life before 2020 was supremely lucky. It’s relatively new and we need to get it back. I don’t want what’s happening currently to affect my kids or professionals that I respect.[/quote]

I grew up in Long Beach, California. My mom went to work for a PR company that was doing the 1984 Olympics; their office was in downtown LA. She was a new mom and they told her that she had to drive into DTLA for the first four months. If you know Southern California, you know this is a brutal commute.

The agreement with the PR firm was that if she did well and could be trusted, they would give her a new IBM screen-based desktop word processing machine and she could work from home.

She did her four months and they gave her the IBM and Xerox's new desktop small copy machine. She would basically be on the phone all day doing stenography for the firms' principals and Olympic committee, then turning those into written press releases and other marketing collateral for the Olympics. She would also have to help with event planning for the Olympic committee (fundraisers, events leading up to the Games). Couriers would stop by our house 2-3 times per week to pick up her work or she'd bring it in if she was heading into the office for something important (1-2x per month).

According to this article from 1987, 1.5M Americans were "telecommuting" primarily with private sector companies:
https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0608/ftelly.html

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