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Re:The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity by close04 on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:05AM (#41623562)
I think we're looking for the unified theory of "return to office". Soft power is definitely one of them. But every company and group of people have their own mix of reasons.

I'd bet Amazon's exercise is a hidden layoff process. Other companies probably want to get their money's worth from the office buildings. The management of others wants to see the army of smiling minions that report to them. Others want to see people in the office for control (make sure they're not enjoying too long breaks, or working from the beach, or working double jobs in parallel, etc.). Or a mix of this even between managers from the same company.

I don't see why there would be one reason to rule them all.

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Re:The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity by BriggyDwiggs42 on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:03PM (#41630529)
I’d think the reason would be relatively unified among a specific class of similar people, i.e. management everywhere probably wants roughly the same thing when they call for RTO and journalists probably want a different same thing when they trash remote work.
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