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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by watwut on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:48PM (#34667600)
That sounds like a reason why an employee would go to the office. But not really something employer would care about - they don't care about employees social lifes in other contexts.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by dasil003 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:49PM (#34667611)
> "People need social connections with their peers to work together successfully"
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:54PM (#34667692)
Tens of billions of dollars in market cap of remote first orgs disagrees. You can work with colleagues without any superfluous social connection, it’s just a job, not a tribe or family. One should be both polite and effective; this does not make you friends.

The inability to support remote work signals the employer cannot manage based on performance, is power hungry, or is managing from emotion instead of data.

(have worked remote for 10+ years)

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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by watwut on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:54PM (#34670654)
Yeah, but we know that people were more productive in home. So, nah.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by ganoushoreilly on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:50PM (#34667627)
I disagree, that's exactly why an employer would want that. Team cohesion is important.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by stuckonempty on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:02PM (#34667798)
Team cohesion is important as far as being able to work collaboratively to finish a project, but it’s not clear that requires being in an office every day for 8+ hrs
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by shyn3 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:58PM (#34667750)
You can't have team cohesion and outsource so better learn to scale early.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by Gigachad on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:12PM (#34670157)
Because people will leave. I will no longer work any job which doesn't have an office. Remote work is depressing and isolating.
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