DIY icon Martha Stewart had some choice words about Americans who want to continue working from home after covid-19 lockdown shut down offices. The professional homemaker said in a recent interview that people “can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely ... Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?”
Her viewpoint was met with skepticism -- after all, didn't Stewart technically make her living working from home? Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary has now chimed in with his stance on the return to office work, and you may be surprised to learn that he and Stewart don't see eye-to-eye on this particular topic.
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O'Leary skims over a few points in favor of remote work -- a wider pool of applicants to hire from, the benefits of eliminating a daily commute, and the depersonalized feeling of office work.
"The economy has changed radically," O'Leary notes. "The problem with saying everybody has to work in the office is you won't be able to hire the best talent."
"When we went out for financial services, [the best talent] in our operating company[...] told us, 'If I have to come into an office and sit in a cubicle and drive for 45 minutes each day into a war-torn city like San Francisco[...] I'm not doing it."
The rest of O'Leary's argument rests on high crime rates in large cities.
"This is another problem, safety in large cities like Chicago, San Francisco, you know, some parts of New York City, L.A. These days, nobody wants to work in these places. They're war zones."
War zones? Where were your old offices located, Kevin?!
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