I cannot understand this obsession with physical location work for non blue collar workers unless your assets are tied to real estate speculation lol
If I was a CEO, I would be fucking delighted that my workers are choosing to use their own property to generate profit for me. I would save so much money by not having to have a giant office, parking space, consume electricity, and a bunch of electronics
It gives up one form of control but exchanges it for another. The flock of middle managers don't get to pop in and watch 20 people to make sure they're at their desks and look at their screens and give pointless little instructions for everyone else to see and haggle about the coffee maker, sure. But remote workers can also barely communicate with one another without using official, recordable company resources. This is a boon to office job union busters, they can just search for "union" in their Slack instance's private messages and channels and fire the troublemakers.
I'd like to toss an explanation on top of real estate interests and wanting control: CEOs are petty, megalomaniacal idiots that work against their own interests on a regular basis and are constantly rewarded for it by the bureaucratic structure of the company.
Other than the massive risk of long term illness or death due to covid I actually kinda like being in office. It makes it easier to complain to my coworkers about how management is risking our lives by making us come back to the office.
I kind of prefer being in my office as well, but that’s because I like my managers and coworkers. But it’s clear that so many people don’t like one or the other and these annoying CEOs want to convince people that no, you actually like the office all the time
Mental well-being wise, I personally do get cabin fever working from home. Better than covid fever but if I had my druthers I'd have neither. Commuting also sucks though. Ideally I'd work in an office 2 minutes by foot from my home in a society with no plagues. Also it would be communist.
I cannot understand this obsession with physical location work for non blue collar workers unless your assets are tied to real estate speculation lol
If I was a CEO, I would be fucking delighted that my workers are choosing to use their own property to generate profit for me. I would save so much money by not having to have a giant office, parking space, consume electricity, and a bunch of electronics
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It means giving up control and thus the ability to keep workers in line.
It gives up one form of control but exchanges it for another. The flock of middle managers don't get to pop in and watch 20 people to make sure they're at their desks and look at their screens and give pointless little instructions for everyone else to see and haggle about the coffee maker, sure. But remote workers can also barely communicate with one another without using official, recordable company resources. This is a boon to office job union busters, they can just search for "union" in their Slack instance's private messages and channels and fire the troublemakers.
I'd like to toss an explanation on top of real estate interests and wanting control: CEOs are petty, megalomaniacal idiots that work against their own interests on a regular basis and are constantly rewarded for it by the bureaucratic structure of the company.
Other than the massive risk of long term illness or death due to covid I actually kinda like being in office. It makes it easier to complain to my coworkers about how management is risking our lives by making us come back to the office.
I kind of prefer being in my office as well, but that’s because I like my managers and coworkers. But it’s clear that so many people don’t like one or the other and these annoying CEOs want to convince people that no, you actually like the office all the time
Mental well-being wise, I personally do get cabin fever working from home. Better than covid fever but if I had my druthers I'd have neither. Commuting also sucks though. Ideally I'd work in an office 2 minutes by foot from my home in a society with no plagues. Also it would be communist.
That's it, that's the entirety of it.