https://fortune.com/2023/04/28/jamie-dimon-says-remote-works-can-go-elsewhere/

Less than a day after the committee shared the memo and scores of workers reacted, comments were reportedly turned off.

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  • edge [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't even get it. There is literally no benefit for the major company I work for to make me go back to the office, but they're doing it anyway.

    I tried to get an accommodation request from my psychiatrist to let me stay home, but it would only last 3 months and they want $75. I might just have to do it though.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Because there's massive piles of money invested in commercial buildings and offices that are just sitting there, wanting to be filled with miserable people under fluorescent lights.

      • edge [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They don't even own the building I work in, they're paying some landleech so they can force me to work from the office for no good reason. It would save them money to let me keep working from home.

          • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            It really is just securing the social reproduction of the PMC class, isn't it? How will all their failchildren continue the family trade if all the workers prove they don't need overseers?

            • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I think it's at least part of the motivation, but I think even the c-suite dickheads want to see an office full of people they "control" present every day. There's some kind of self-worth invested in having peons to justify living high on the hog.

              Now that I think about it, some enterprising person could probably sell a software suite that just stacks outputs of every remote employee into a screen so the managers can see mouses moving, people on their webcams, etc, but all of it on one screen so they can feel powerful

        • rubpoll [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Your employers have more in common with their landlord than they have with you, and they know it.

        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah but then you might be less miserable and have more control over your life

    • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      One theory is that they’re trying to lower employment. The fed and companies have been saying too many people are working. Forcing people to do something as insane as returning to an office when it has been proven that workers are as productive if not more productive at home means many will quit, saving you from being the bad guy who fires everyone