Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy About It

Re:Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy A... by lafar6503 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:20PM (#37285271)

I think once a privilege has been given (to employees) it's impossible to take it away without a fight. Suddenly something that was a non-issue became a life or death matter. So you're right, now people would expect to be paid extra for working in the office, even if they did that for free two years ago.

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Re:Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy A... by pg_1234 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:41PM (#37285436)

It's a bit rich to call not having someone dictate where you go most days a "privilege".

A more accurate wording might be "once you stop imposing a hardship" ... it's hard to convince people to let you re-impose it (for free).

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Re:Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy A... by lafar6503 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:01PM (#37285607)

Work is a voluntary contract for both sides and the terms are agreed before signing it, not dictated afterwards . And the standard so far was that the work is done at location specified by the employer. So it's not something that's suddenly been invented to oppress the employees.

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Re:Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy A... by johnnyanmac on Sunday August 27, 2023 @09:05PM (#37288447)

I mean, it is a privilege. One many industry are physically unable to do even if they wanted to. We shouldn't forget that tech really is in a special situation for a lot of these factors that are being treated as novel in the 2020's.

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