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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by robertlagrant on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:49PM (#37614364)
> Why isn’t this practice that workers clearly love, and are willing to leave companies to keep, seen as a great step in the progress of labor?

It's better to think of people as individuals, and not as "labor" or "not-labor". I think remote working is great for this, much better than top-down mandates on cars and congestion zones, although those swell the tax coffers nicely, but I don't think it's a great victory. Lots of people (particularly those who do actual physical labour, such as builders and shopkeepers) have to go to a workplace. It's not a victory for them, because lumping people into tribes means category errors abound.

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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by lotsofpulp on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:52PM (#37614391)
Why is it not a victory for them? Less congestion on the roads, higher prices for their labor since WFH work is more attractive.
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by ghaff on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:02PM (#37614536)
For the shopkeepers and others who provided services for the office workers… fewer jobs.
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by lotsofpulp on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:03PM (#37614555)
If society wants to make jobs, there is tons of trash to pickup. And infrastructure to maintain/build.
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by ghaff on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:58PM (#37615354)
Oh I’m not saying people should go back into an office because of the retail and restaurant workers. It’s just this isn’t good for those workers as an upstream comment seemed to suggest.
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by robertlagrant on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:25PM (#37624693)
Are you thinking that picking up trash and building infrastructure are examples of labour that is victorious with working from home?
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s... by pc86 on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:20PM (#37614802)
Good luck getting people to drop the "labor"/"not labor" schtick when you literally have people here using Marxist language to describe working from home vs. commuting into an office like it's the 1800s.
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