stfn, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl "Puritanical feelings apparently beat facts" can be applied to oh so many areas of life.

18+ Frances_Larina, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl

Maybe it's more about subjugating workers (& proto-workers aka students) than it is about reaching peak efficiency.

paintedsky, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl that post is 3+ years old, and we have made absolutely zero progress in the interim 🥲

MasterMischief, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl Not puritanical feelings, but coorporate greed.

raptor85, 5 months ago

@MasterMischief @Jedigirl not really, if it was purely greed they wouldn't be losing so much productivity from their workers and forcing things like "back to the office" for positions that don't need it at all. (tons of companies pulling people back in to...sit at a desk in teams meetings all day). No reason for it other than letting middle management have a purpose and "because that's how it's always been done"

beeoproblem, 5 months ago

@MasterMischief @Jedigirl If it was purely greed companies would be looking for ways to break their leases to reduce overhead further. Empty office space is expensive, occupied office space is even more expensive.

jens, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl And then the rest of the world follows, because it's done in other places.

PixelJones, 5 months ago

@Jedigirl Worse, how the CEO of my large, 99% IT-based company which transitioned to all remote during COVID for 2 years with narry a hiccup then declared 100% back-to-office & when asked why said (dead seriously), "If Elon Musk thinks it's time to go BTO then it must be the right thing to do."

Uh, sure, man but to paraphrase every exasperated parent ever, "So, if all your tech bro, man-child billionaire friends decided to jump off a $40 billion bridge in their Teslas would you do that, too?"