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Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw to c/business

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[–] sudo42 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, but what is the mechanism? The CEOs are getting leaned on by somebody. Does Dell own lots of real-estate that they need filled? Seems WFH would save them money. No office to rent, worker pays internet, power, RE, A/C. Those costs add up.
Work doesn’t even provide cube walls anymore to save money. Why not save more? Heck, rent a 20x20 office and let the managers hang out in an all-day meeting with themselves if they miss meetings so much.

[–] jasep 1 points 7 months ago

Does Dell own lots of real-estate that they need filled? I mean, I don't have the inside scoop with Dell or anyone else, but probably. If workers stay home then surrounding businesses like restaurants et al suffer which brings down the surrounding area value. Real estate values on major properties are a drop in the bucket compared to utility costs.

Then there's the worker > middle management > upper management hierarchy that others have mentioned in the thread and summarized better than I can that gets messed up.

If any of this sounds corpo apologetic it's not meant to. Unions and WFH FTW