“Could be?”
We know it is. I don’t wish for Covid again, but remember when all the waterways started clearing up (didn’t dolphins show up in Venice at some point?) and the smog cleared in places that haven’t seen a blue sky in decades?
Who cares about the environment when we could be hoarding more money. Can anybody please think about those poor CEOs? :(
CEOs can make more money by offloading office costs to the employee - if your work force is remote, you don’t need to pay for an office space.
This increases your profit, because your expenses are lower.
But you can’t invest all that stolen money in inflated office building real estate prices either.
Never, never, never, will I spend 1h the morning and 1h the evening in traffic jam to do 15 miles, never again.
EDIT: in winter snow storm it was 2-3h !!!
Amen.
I was one day a week in the office during the pandemic. We had assets which required a physical presence, but with a rotating shift of 1-2 people in the office each day, we could keep the required coverage. Then my workplace started bringing us back to the office in 2022. It started with 3 days a week and we started hearing rumors of a full return to office. It was well know that upper management was hostile to remote work. So, I flipped my LinkedIn profile to “looking” (or whatever the setting was called, it’s been a while). And I started both actively applying and responding to recruiters. I eventually got a message from a reciter who led with “REMOTE WORK OPPORTUNITY”, yes the message started in ALL CAPS, though the rest was normal and hit all the points I was interested in. I figured, what the hell, can’t hurt to talk. That was just shy of two years ago, I have been into an office since late 2022. It’s going to have to be a hell of a bad situation for me to deal with commuting again.
I’ve been forced back to the office. I hate it. I hate the commute. I hate the cubicle. I hate the forced small talk interaction with coworkers.
I’m more productive when I worked remote. Less hassled. Less tired from not having to commute.
It makes me not want to work here any longer.
Sooooo… quit?
When my org announced RTO, I started looking for another job. A month later I had a new gig and a nice pay bump. Nobody’s gonna look out for you but you, my friend.
For some reason I read that as, “co-workers” and imagined two cows drinking coffee by the water machine chit chatting about nothing.
Could be? It absolutely is! That would be an extra 50 miles I would have to drive every weekday. They have entire global organizations meeting together to figure out where to set goals for cutting emissions, but these easily-avoidable emissions are fine apparently. The so-called “leaders” aren’t taking the problem seriously.
Already is.
My commute is already about 10% longer thanks to the extra traffic. People fled the city and moved to the burbs after covid, then RTO hit and now a bunch of them are on the roads. Easily added a measurable amount of time to my drive, and I’ve been doing the same commute for a decade.
“Could be?” Like the way falling on your head from 5 stories up “could be” unhealthy?
It’s terrible for everyone except billionaire property investors.
You mean the same companies responsible for our current climate may not care about what RTO does to their workers or the world?
: shocked Pikachu:
Yeah but it’ll make a bunch of fuckbrains feel good, tho.
Could be? Seriously?
The people who care about this stuff never bothered to gain any wealth or power so it doesn’t really matter
“Sounds good to us!” – CEOs of the world.
And really some jobs can be totally done at home. Like planning an other administrative stuff. Everything else where you need to be there at the job site should be the only thing coming back. Like builders, engineering, hair styling, receptionist, etc, those jobs need to be done at the job site, we all get it. But everything else, we just need a good org chart and teams…or something better…plz could some software company create a teams software where you can share a power point in full screen? It’s hilarious when you try Sharing a PowerPoint on teams and you get like a whole 1/4 of the screen to show the PPT. Then you gotta go a little known menu here to remove the people, so the PPT gets a little bigger, then another setting to go “full screen” and you get another 3 extra pixels, then go to view some such to get another 5 pixels. It’s ridiculous! But it’s what limits the people who can work at home. Just need better collaboration software. Anything is better than Microsoft.
Like any of you teenagers actually have jobs anyway
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yeah…
You sully my boy Téodor’s good name with your poor trolling.
