We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office

Re:We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office by AHOHA on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:18PM (#36181801)

Don’t forget too you will go the office to have video calls meetings just like if you were at home.

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Re:We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office by andrei_says_ on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:21PM (#36182103)

I can just open my laptop at home… oh you say I need to drive for an hour first. Should I drive in a circle? To a certain location? Oh, and it’s one hour before I open the laptop and then another hour after I close it. For free. In my own car. While endangering my life and paying for gas. Oh and it’s at certain hours.

What exactly is the benefit of this?

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Re:We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office by hn_version_0023 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:39PM (#36182541)

You get to pump up the ego of a man who holds you in contempt because you’re not a sociopath like him.

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Re:We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office by musicale on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:29PM (#36189279)

It's harder to maintain the workplace status/dominance hierarchy remotely.

A corner office is a useless status symbol when subordinates aren't visibly toiling away in their awful open plan office spaces.

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Re:We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office by erik_seaberg on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:09AM (#36184675)

To be fair, Googlers did this even before COVID, because crossing the Mountain View campus was a hassle and room-to-room video worked really well.

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