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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  • 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