Why are corps so insistent on workers back in the office. I could see them wanting certain employees back in the office, but why all the blanket policies?
this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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Fkd up real estate investments, or long term rentals, and to make useless managers feel that they are local kings, and make them look like if they are needed (but not at all, these arr the bullshit jobs).
My productivity is definitely lower if im working from office, also i feel much worse, by the look and feel of the office, and the things around it, but especially the +3 hours of commute (preparations, actual commute) on each office day.
At my company 2 wfo days are mandatory now (1 year ago it was 1, and until 2023 spring i worked full remotely since i joined to company in fall of 2021), now i avoid some wfo days telling real, or not so real sicknesses, but if they raise the wfo days count, i'll definitely update my linkedin profile advertising, that im looking for new "adventures", pointing out that i dont want to work from office (and for morgen slanty to GTFO, dont even call me 🤣)
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.
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
For them happiness equals unexploited potential. Only when workers are depressed and hate their job do execs know for certain there is not much more extract. In other words they‘d rather actively decrease productivity and revenue than let people be happy while not knowing for certain if they‘re fully exploited already. Because if they are, then why would they be so damn happy?
The ironic part is I know people who want to return to the office but can't due to other reasons.
Because they get huge tax breaks from the government for keeping a minimum occupancy in their buildings. The government wants all that sales tax from lunches, toll fees, parking fees, speeding tickets, and all of the other income that it receives at your expense. They are colluding with the government to profit from you.