Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by ToucanLoucan on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:43PM (#37740745)

It goes much deeper than that though. It isn't just "they wanted it and couldn't have it, then they got it and now they want to keep it:" A lot of people, myself included, did not understand even if we wanted work from home, how life changing it would be. How it's better for us as people, better for us as workers, better for our pocketbooks, better for our planet, better for our lives, just... better. It's ALL better.

Literally the only people losing in this arrangement are the same parasites who win at literally every other juncture in our society and just, I'm sick to DEATH of it. I will DIE on this hill. I hope the commercial real estate market fucking craters. I hope every company doing this RTO shit dies on the vine. I hope it sucks for every single person in the parasite class who loses more than 2 dollars on everything. I hope it crashes the price of real estate in big cities and makes them affordable again. I hope it makes my home worth less because homes shouldn't be a fucking investment vehicle in the first place.

To borrow the bugs bunny meme, I wish every landlord a very happy get a real job.

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by ck425 on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:39PM (#37741682)

There are a lot of us normal workers who dislike WFH and we're not parasites. It's perfectly valid to prefer WFH but it's also valid to prefer the office.

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by ToucanLoucan on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:44PM (#37741754)

Nobody is talking about workers who prefer work from home.

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by layer8 on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:58PM (#37741960)

I have a nice office at work, where I have less distractions than at home. I find that face-to-face meetings allow for better discussions and whiteboarding than video conferencing. I can commute by bike on a lovely route, thus getting regular exercise and fresh air. I can better compartmentalize work from leisure. I don’t have to spend my whole day within the same walls. I get to see other people and have random encounters with interesting technical and non-technical discussions at work.

So it depends on circumstances and preferences. Both modes should be possible.

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