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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by jahlove on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:16AM (#33548663)
Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago:

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647

Forever is a long time...

Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by zeroonetwothree on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:39AM (#33549089)
At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by bigbillheck on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:43PM (#33552004)
It's still killing hundreds of people every day.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by prottog on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:42PM (#33553010)
A hundred and twenty people die every minute in the US. How far will you go to ensure that doesn't happen? How many civil liberties will you suspend, and how many cherished norms of life will you cast aside in your goal?
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by bigbillheck on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:57AM (#33560845)
You might be shocked to realize that we as a society have already taken drastic and far-reaching steps in the name of stopping preventable deaths.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by kridsdale2 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:56PM (#33552243)
Depending on your definitions, it is.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by TimTheTinker on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:53PM (#33552183)
Reminder that "forever", "unlimited", "never", "always", and other superlatives, when spoken by companies, only mean the limit is not yet known, not yet coherently defined, or that the definition is provided elsewhere.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by wilg on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:38PM (#33552962)
This is true even when not spoken by companies.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by phaedrus on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:39PM (#33552965)
Illustrates a case where even workers who have a good relationship with their management might benefit from a union. Management can change; then who is left to hold the new management to former promises?