I guess that explains why they're going to such great lengths to convince us that talking about Game of Thrones around a water cooler is such a tremendous benefit to humankind...
And there it is. This is the reason why so many companies are insisting on RTO. The C-level bosses are being pressured by their ultra rich friends who own the land to justify their high real estate valuations and rent so they can continue to make more money. They're happy to do it too... No compromise for them... Most of them are old conservative fucks that are probably angry at all the technology disconnecting them from their ability to interrupt their workers whenever they feel like it, so they can dump their stress, anger and frustration on their subordinates by reprimanding them without just cause.
It's the same old story, rich folks screwing over the common poors for their own selfish reasons to their own self-serving ends. Progress? No problem, as long as it makes them more money, costs them less in expenses, and gives them more power over the rest of us.
Corporations: get your booty back into the office so it’s not empty
Also corporations: we’ve laid off your team in favor of AI, it was a tough but necessary choice due to costs
The empty office building: ???
when my shit gets wiped out its "a market correction". let's see if this is "a market correction" or a "crisis" that requires federal intervention (read: a bunch of your money stolen at gunpoint and given to the people who made bad investments)
It's insane that we as a society are even having the debate between pushing capital investment strategies to adapt and come into the 21st century or dragging globally-distributed workers back to the 20th century just to avoid short-term pain and costs associated with updating outdated laws, tax incentives, and capital business practices.
I work remote twice a week, which is nice, but I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.
Most of who I communicate with to do my job is not even in my location, so I'm regularly using Microsoft teams and WebEx. Also all the programs are accessible on my work laptop from home.
The thing I don't like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It's not just the office space, it's also furniture, electricity, water and so on.
While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don't get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.
If only Amazon wasn’t forcing me to go back into the office soon…
Even my manager hates the idea. Out team is split on different coasts, so we’re gonna have to be in class anyway, so why am I forced to go into the office? I went in before I was going to be forced because it was fun, but now I’m staying out until I’m forced. It’s bullshit.
I saw a puff piece about a billionaire banker complaining that remote work wasn't working to defend his decision to force people back into the office. Lying piece of shit was probably seeing the value of his portfolio dropping
times are changing, so should work.
its 2023 not 1993, WFH for the folks that do mostly desk job stuff should be encouraged
An enviromentalist/urbanist is all for this because less cars on the road means less pollution, less accidents and most of all, less stress of HAVING to drive outside of getting groceries and such.
the only disadvantage of WFH is simply the lack of unity in the populace, mostly due to how suburban developments keep us all shut off from one another, but thats another 50 gallon drum of worms in of itself.
Our interdependence as workers could redistribute capital, if we speak in unison with our wallets. It could be possible with the equipment you're holding in your hand. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I think it’s important to note here that it’s not necessarily great for everyone if the companies everybody works for lose a bunch of money. Companies will try as hard as possible not to realize that loss, and after that happens, lots of office buildings aren’t really built in a way where they can be converted to do anything useful, so they’re just gonna sit there. Normal people are probably going to end up paying for this - personnel are some of the easiest things to let go of for a balance sheet.