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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Return to the office? These workers quit instead. (news.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/workreform

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And buried in the middle of the article:

"He and his colleagues believe that the company's move was the result of workers' decision to unionize."

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[–] severien 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This argument never made sense to me. Why would greedy companies voluntarily pay for something they don't need just to support some "greater good" of keeping the economy afloat? It means reduced profits yet the "contribution" of each individual company is just drop in the bucket.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would make sense if the executives making the order to return to the office also have commercial real estate portfolios.

[–] severien 5 points 1 year ago

Then it would be just moving profits from one pocket to another.

IMHO it can't explain the industry trend.

[–] camelCaseGuy 8 points 1 year ago

It doesn't make sense because it's some conspiracy theory level bullshit. It would imply that big CEOs or board members either:

Possess a big percentage of the current real estate properties (and I mean, huge, like 50%)
Big part of their assets are in real estate (again, more than 30%)

And, that of course, they are all colluding. Meaning, there is a kind of Illuminati kind of society of all the CEOs that get together with pie charts and excels to see how to maximize their profits.

It's a delusion that people with a low grasp of reality are using to cope with the fact that:

Economy is shit
There are people that, because of connection and money, are unscathed by the economic shitinnes we live in
Because the economy is shit, companies are grasping to get out of red numbers
Because we have had mediocre to sheerly bad managers in almost every industry for most of the last three decades thanks to some economic bonanzas, the only way they see they can improve the margins is by doing stupid things like back to office

I like Hanlon's razor for these cases: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I this, I feel, is indeed that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It’s complicated but mostly made up argument.

It varies company to company. An old company I worked at we got a tax break for how many employees we had in the office. (Pre-Covid)the idea was to encourage us to move employees from other officers into the downtown office.

If everyone is working remotely, you don’t get those tax benefits.

The main reason I’ve seen is habit. We have been going to an office for a long time and it’s about control. They want to watch their workers.

Now what interesting is people are suing because they’re working from home. It’s increased their cost and they want the employer to pay it.

[–] jayemecee 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Hence government intervention needed, unfortunately