Technology

Hell, no! Give me time and space to collaborate with colleagues, and I will Get. shit. Done.

Stifle that and drag me into the off, and you get exactly what you pay for - which doesn’t include emote training of any emp etc.

Yeah, I mean it totally would improve my collaboration if I, a software architect, went into a small sales office near me even though no one in my department, not even the same division of my company will be there, so I'll still be using the same communication tools.

Plus the pay cut I'll be taking by having to pay for another car, gas, and downtown parking. None of which the company will cover. And the building is only open from 7:30 to 5 Pacific Time, but all my meetings are Eastern Time, so I'll be missing morning meetings while I commute and wait for the building to open, and I sure as heck won't be bringing my laptop home, so they get that many hours out of me and no weekends.

Yep everyone benefits.

Read "Bullshit Jobs" if you haven't. Most "work" is really always been about control and enforcing a religious ideology that being subservient to someone else makes you a better person. Return to work is about the psychological domination of workers. We all know it was never about productivity but about justifying inequity through institutionalized sadism.

in no universe should that take precedent over the massive quality of life improvements WFH offers for the worker

They don’t give 1/10th of a shit about worker comfort or joy. It’s all about shareholder profits and control. And as the article was saying, about trying to dump blame. The great thing is, again, as stated in the article, that these RTO companies are severely limiting their talent pool. It will start to become clearer and clearer that companies that moved totally WFH retain employees and will see more benefits for their bottom line.

I mean, think about it for two seconds, how can renting office space and equipment and all the office supplies in every office location for one company be justified when all it gives you is a smaller talent pool, less happy workers making productivity sink and and turnover skyrocket, and an excuse when you need it?

It’s just craziness. It’s stupid bosses and rich people sacrificing the worker for…I honestly don’t know what is driving them to do this, because I can’t imagine they are getting any benefit at all.

I always ask for a hefty premium and tell that it's because its on site. Anything more than a week a quarter is on site to me too.

And the RTO demands are about intentionally lowering headcount without paying unemployment or severance so they can boost their numbers.

This is our company. Haven't met our growth goals since covid? Make everyone commute three times a week, that will fix it. We need to bring everyone together to find the missing money that leadership decided we should be making.

Smash the office, build more housing

Real estate appreciates in value, human resources appreciate in cost. Clearly that's a bad investment. /s

You’ll never get promoted that way.

"It's not a King's job to understand the concern of a Peasant" - CEOs

It's Forbes, I don't know what else they can talk about lately.