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Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your company CEOs golf buddies from the real estate business are complaining that they are losing money because rental office space value is dropping. It's the only reason.

At some point they'll cook up some funded research to show that remote working is detrimental in various ways and soon the 1% will demand the end of remote working, due to looming economic Armageddon. However bs science takes time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your company CEOs golf buddies from the real estate business are complaining that they are losing money because rental office space value is dropping. It’s the only reason.

That's a cynical view thinking that's the only reason. /s

Another reason may be that the company received generous tax breaks from the municipality or state to have workers working in a specific place, and now all those workers are spread out to different cities, counties, or even states, the tax man is getting angry and threatening to take the company pay up. So bosses are forcing workers back into office even though it is more costly to workers and makes them less productive.

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

Yeah I heard a city mayor on NPR the other day talking about ways to get people back downtown to support businesses. They need to just stop already. That's not leadership. If people don't want to be downtown give them a good reason. Build housing and grocery stores or something. Don't Force people to commute.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Forcing a huge portion of the population to move to a particular area every day and then vacate it is becoming outdated, and it caused a shitload of problems anyways. Time to move on to more decentralized urban planning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Still, they're not passing on their savings / profits / ill gotten gains to the workers they're trying to force to commute.

And they've shown they'd totally fuck the workers over if cheap (defective) robots were available tomorrow, as per their gladness to replace workers with generative AI while the tech is still sloppy.

So, they've established the worker‐capitalist relationship as antagonistic and strictly transactional.