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[–] bouh 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't buy this narrative. While it may very well be true that real estate is going down and ruining some companies and people, which makes me very happy, I doubt this is the reason why companies are pushing people to office.

IMO they're simply dumb controle freaks. When people are at the office, they can push their propaganda of corporate culture in the hope that some workers will buy it a become some kind of ambassador for their twisted model.

There probably is also the same stupid generalisation that made open space a generality: some idiot with way too much power prefered to work this way, and thus he assumed everyone would. It was turned into company policy, and because this company earned some money this year it turned into a fashion for all companies.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's a combination of both.

[–] gummybootpiloot 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do see a lot of articles targeted at ceo's on LinkedIn by real estate/office. So there is definitely a degree to it.

Micromanagement is also a factor here however a company can also install monitoring software on your laptop by company policy like mine did.

[–] bouh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can't do that without unions allowing it in France, and unions are not ready to allow it yet. Articles are good evidences though for loans.

[–] gummybootpiloot 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah France did great there, saldy no such luck in the UK and low union membership in tech

[–] new_acct_who_dis 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't think about the "ambassador" angle. It probably is harder to get employees to drink the company koolaid when they're not physically in the office.

[–] Saneless 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They probably have some tax breaks specifically around buildings and people in them

[–] Staccato 1 points 1 year ago

Tax breaks? Most companies are paying leases on their office space, minus the ones big enough to build their own campuses.