They could give me a private office or even cube instead of open plan bullshit. That would make me feel much more like I was at home than this. There’s a mental load to sitting in a big room with unfriendly eyes on you for 8 hours.
THIS. And also there’s a big mental load to actually getting to the office. IDK how the bourgeois press is this out of touch, our problem with demanding we go to the office clearly isn’t the lack of fancy furniture in the office
If I’m not being compensated for time and money spent commuting I’m being ripped off. If I must be in the office I should be paid for the time in transit because I wouldn’t be in transit if not as a condition of employment
So many days I’m excited to be off work because I wanted to, like, play a video game or watch a tv show only to finally get home and only then be too tired to do anything but scroll for 15 minutes
Don’t you think it’s more gaslighting, signalling for “the big other” that people aren’t really displeased with capitalism, it’s actually this other transitory thing. No need to look or think any more deeply!
There’s a mental load to sitting in a big room with unfriendly eyes on you for 8 hours.
That’s the point and the reason they want you there, they want you to feel watched 24/7 and pressured to work non-stop
Despite having half a decade now of studies coming out that show people work worse like that
They work worse but are less likely to act up socially or politically because we’re so exhausted and burnt out from office BS.
Every time I’m on the phone I like to leave a building, or at least room. If I’m writing something up or whatever I can’t stand it if someone’s looking over my shoulder. There’s no way I could handle an open plan office or even a cube.
Yeah because what people really love about working from home is being near their sofa and fireplace. This should completely solve it. No other benefits from working remotely at all
It is really nice to be able to keep track of your kids/elderly parents while working. It’s good peace of mind. Not to mention the time reclaimed from commuting. Workplaces aren’t going to be able to ballpit their way out of this for every worker.
I’ve changed the aesthetics of all the things that cause problems in your life, why are you still mad?
they’ve forestalled a collapse in commercial real estate for several years now. how much longer can they keep the plates spinning?
The commute is the first problem, not the aesthetics. The second problem is being able to just stop working and do life shit for a bit on a whim with no pressure or fear so long as you’re getting the work done then there’s not a problem.
Boss can’t solve the commute. They can solve the tyrants in the office making all that pressure and fear but they don’t. The pressure is the point.
we have to demolish bike lanes to shave 1.2 seconds off of car commutes but also car commutes are not enough of a problem to justify working from home
again I am left wondering why people keep going for the B&B Hotels ™ personal living room experience instead of like, a laundry service or catered food or any other dozen of services people regularly need anways that would entice them to come to the office because they’d save time. Equipping every office space with a simulacra of somewhere you’d want to be can’t come cheaper than striking a business deal with some sort of dry cleaning service 3 houses over
The issue is it’s a one time expense vs recurring expense.
Sofas for your moron employees goes on capex table, dry cleaning is opex and investors want opex as low as possible to extract money.
It’s the reason Google used the pandemic to stop offering services to employees. Austerity has hit those offices 4 times over now.
Capex sofas are the consolation prize.
Company towns enter the chat
My first thoughts as well. Next step is a little “bedroom” with rent taken out of your paycheck.
It took me longer than i care to admit to parse that word and when i did, mfw:
this back to office stuff is so deranged. they desperately need some stooge looming over you to make sure the boss feels he’s getting his money’s worth.
the looney toons imagery is apt. these people are crazy. like yeah, just turn my office into my shitty living room and I’ll be tricked into wanting to come and hang out there, instead of my real one in my house.
they think of us as the most simplistic prey in a 1960s cartoon.
So are they hiring for in-office positions then?
They’re hiring, right?
that’s what the company i work for just finished doing
the business roundtable really does just dictate what all these companies do don’t they?
I swear major companies cannot be this invested in commercial real estate, and that surely a substantial number would rather not have the significant cost of renting commercial real estate, but here we are
Hold up. How do they know what my place looks like?
