Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Mike, and
this is Cup of Traverse City for the
12/16/2025.
And we're getting a little break in the
weather here, so that's good.
Yeah, today a slight chance of snow showers
between one and three, then a slight chance
of rain showers after three. You don't hear
rain in December all that often.
Anyway, mostly cloudy
with high near 36. South wind is 10
to 15 miles per hour with gust as
high as 35,
so still a little breezy out there.
A chance of precipitation
is 20%.
Tonight, a 10% chance of showers before 7PM,
mostly cloudy with a steady temperature around 35.
Southwest winds
10 to 15 miles an hour with gust
as high as 35, still breezy.
And
for Wednesday,
partly sunny.
Oh, sun? What is that? Haven't seen that
in a while. Anyway, partly sunny with the
temperature falling to around 31
by 5PM, west wind five to 10 miles
per hour becoming southwest
in the afternoon, hence the warm up.
So that's,
that's actually rather good.
We've got a little more of a regional
story here.
The headline reads, remote work is here to
stay, new local study says. But it says
43%
of the regional
workforce would prefer to work remotely full time.
So it says a newly published study from
Networks Northwest.
The study includes data from the 10 county,
Traverse
Region. I don't know what 10 counties, but,
all around here,
of course. But,
yeah, it, it
it says that, you know, about 23%
of the local 10 county workforce force works
remotely in some way, shape, or form, and
about half of them
are full time.
And a good portion of them started before
COVID
working remote. You know, a lot of people
think that working remotely was just kind of
a COVID thing,
and I've been working fully remote full time
since 2015.
And, you know, so don't plan on going
back to any offices,
although we do get to travel a little
bit.
But it's interesting. I
I wouldn't have thought it was that many.
I mean, looking at the the traffic around
here even in the off season. I mean,
it's not super heavy traffic, but a lot
of people are moving around on rush hour
and including me sometimes because I always tend
to have to do something right after work.
You know? But,
yeah, I
I think that's
a a good a good,
take on it. You know?
It's here to stay, and, it's gonna,
you know, it's just gonna be the way
things are for
a lot of workers. I mean, there's a
lot of stuff that can be done from
home now. A lot of banks.
A lot of their, banking people are working
remotely.
A lot of,
you know, utility companies, you know, people that
are on the phone all the time. Well,
what the difference does it make whether they're
in the phone at the office or on
the phone at home?
You know, with what I do, I spend
a lot of time, you know, on the
phone, on the computer,
talking to people, definitely on Zoom a lot.
You know, some days I have Zoom meetings
stacked up
and call it death by Zoom day, but
I
I I wouldn't have it any other way
if I could help it. You know, this
is this is a much better lifestyle
for, you know, as they say, work life
balance.
You know, there is a little bit of
a danger
with working from home where you spend all
your time, you know, half looking at work,
even if you're not on the clock and,
you know,
I'm pretty strict about it. I do, you
know, check-in,
but, you know, I'm more of in a
management
management position, so I do sorta have to
keep an eye on what's going on.
But I don't
you know, there there's times where I don't
look at anything,
you know, from 05:00 until 08:00 the next
morning.
You know, I just
it it's not it's not hard to do
that,
especially now the way I've got it set
up. I have a a office studio
in my backyard that's separated from the house,
you know. So I've got a 30 foot
commute. Sometimes I gotta shovel my way in
here, but
it's separated
from all the activities
and and whatnot at the house and
still
at home. You know, if I need to
do something in the house, I go in
the house and do something. You know?
And and it's a much
more
laid back and but I think, you know,
overall, I work
a little harder because I can do it
from here. I don't have to plan for
a commute. I don't have to warm up
the vehicle and scrape ice off the windows
if I don't want to. You know?
It it's the way to do it. But,
anyway, check out that, study.
I read it in the ticker, but there's,
other
places that it is around the web.
And, I will have that in the show
notes over at cupoftraverscity.com.
Everybody have a great day. We'll see you
tomorrow.