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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by codingdave on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:30PM (#37740505)
I think the resentment comes from the assumption of: "We should just return to the status quo before..."

If you look back at the history of work experiences, there were several old "status quos" that we no longer accept. We don't accept, manual labor for 60 or 80 hours a week. We don't accept an expectation of staying at one employer for your entire career and then retiring on a pension. But society evolves. Assuming that something as disruptive as COVID should just be put aside without evolving how we operate in our world is exactly where the resentment comes from.

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by cool_dude85 on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:13PM (#37741244)
>We don't accept an expectation of staying at one employer for your entire career and then retiring on a pension

I think that if private companies offered pension plans, reasonable raises and promotion paths, many people would accept it. I think the company hopping stuff is largely a response to the death of annual raises and internal promotions.

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