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Re:The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity by chaostheory on Monday September 23, 2024 @03:13AM (#41623213)
There are also tax incentives. Cities like big company offices because in theory their workers would become customers of local businesses, which would not be possible with remote work. Maybe cities have been threatening to take away the tax breaks unless leadership did a RTO?

It's also highly likely that this is a soft layoff, trying to delay the real layoffs in 2025

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Re:The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity by red-iron-pine on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:29PM (#41630153)
yeah this isn't mentioned enough. cities desperate need the tax revenue and are pressing larger business -- doubly so if they're places like Texas, who offered sweetheart tax deals to businesses to attract them into the state.
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