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Office management companies are worried. In the UK they, as well as commuting companies like Daily Mail Group, and overpriced sandwich shops like Pret, have rea

by iso947 6y ago

Office management companies are worried. In the UK they, as well as commuting companies like Daily Mail Group, and overpriced sandwich shops like Pret, have realised their entire company is reliant on millions of sheep trudging 2 hours a day to an office block with no space to fight for a desk to have a day’s worth of meetings on skype. A large anti WFH campaign run by the people behind brexit and linked to trumps campaign is set to start next month in the UK (the feelers you’re judge public mood have already gone out)

lbotos 6y ago
link to info for this campaign?
- evgen 6y ago
  Info on the government campaign to get people back to offices? See any UK newspaper for past week or BBC. The controversy regarding the hypocrisy of government agencies telling people to go back to offices (under pressure from biz groups who represent the various chains that survive off these commuters) while their own workers are WFH? Look to any newspaper from past three or four days for that one. Contra the earlier claim the Daily Mail group is not among those pushing for a return to regular commuting, other than their desire to parrot the Tory party line; in fact, they had one of the more pointed push-backs by showing that the same ministry that was telling companies to return workers to offices had less than 10% of its own employees working in the office (feels somewhat dirty posting a daily mail link, but it does reveal a bit of the controversy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-work...)
  - davidgerard 6y ago
    safe link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.daily... There's a bit of politics there - the Daily Mail are still right-wing xenophobes, but the present editor doesn't like the Johnson/Cummings team at all, and takes shots at them whenever he can.
- techer 6y ago
  'Go back to work or risk losing your job': Major drive launched to get people returning to the office Ministers warn that continuing to work from home could make staff ‘vulnerable’ to being sacked
  - Normille 6y ago
    I had to laugh when I saw this report [0] “Clearly people should be going back to work because it is safe to do so. There are already problems with workers’ mental health. It’s not just about hard-nosed economics,” the report said, citing a Cabinet minister. The idea that this is not a purely economics-driven initiative and that the government gives a flying fuck about the mental health of the working population is so beyond farce as to be an insult. How stupid do they think we are? [0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-job/johnson-to-launch-drive-to-get-britain-back-to-the-office-telegraph-idUKKBN25N34M https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
    - davidgerard 6y ago
      basically, (a) no actual office worker believes the government line on this (b) the employers - who are actually paying people to work from home - don't believe the government line either
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - bluntfang 6y ago
      >How stupid do they think we are? what's the phrase? "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it"?
ethanbond 6y ago
No need to call anyone sheep for having jobs to feed themselves and their families.
- slap_shot 6y ago
  The fact that people are feeding themselves and their families is irrelevant. They're still doing something in a flock like a flock of sheep.
  - op00to 6y ago
    Is voting acting like a flock of sheep? Would sitting on a Jury be similar? Your view is terribly offensive.
    - dontcarethrow2 6y ago
      To us or the flock? We are animals, analogies using other animals shouldn't be taken so heavy? Bring any herder to the city and see if he finds a difference.
    - onionisafruit 6y ago
      "Flock to the polls" is a common phrase in headlines. So that’s some evidence that others see voting as flock behavior. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “flock to the jury boxes” though. For whatever reason when I see a “flock to” headline I think of birds, not sheep. Specifically I think of flamingos.
- danjac 6y ago
  The wording is maybe a bit off, but the point about a media campaign is spot on. To quote Karl Marx: "The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent." For example: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlejohn-work-from-home-covid-19-the-daily-mail-1-6813025 https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlej...
noir_lord 6y ago
It is a shame that your message got lost in the tone. It's pretty clear that they are pushing in the media for people to return to work and quite often that is not going to be to the benefit of the people they are pushing back. I on the other hand deliberately switched jobs to a role that was 100% remote forever because it is what is in my best interest.
papito 6y ago
I really hate conspiracies, but this global cabal of ultra-rich, herding the sheep to slaughter for gigantic short-term profits while burning the world down, is beginning to get on my nerves. But don't look there! Tom Hanks and Oprah are pedophile cannibals, and they need to be stopped at ALL costs!

by iso947 6y ago

lbotos 6y ago

link to info for this campaign?

evgen 6y ago
Info on the government campaign to get people back to offices? See any UK newspaper for past week or BBC. The controversy regarding the hypocrisy of government agencies telling people to go back to offices (under pressure from biz groups who represent the various chains that survive off these commuters) while their own workers are WFH? Look to any newspaper from past three or four days for that one. Contra the earlier claim the Daily Mail group is not among those pushing for a return to regular commuting, other than their desire to parrot the Tory party line; in fact, they had one of the more pointed push-backs by showing that the same ministry that was telling companies to return workers to offices had less than 10% of its own employees working in the office (feels somewhat dirty posting a daily mail link, but it does reveal a bit of the controversy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-work...)
- davidgerard 6y ago
  safe link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.daily... There's a bit of politics there - the Daily Mail are still right-wing xenophobes, but the present editor doesn't like the Johnson/Cummings team at all, and takes shots at them whenever he can.
techer 6y ago
'Go back to work or risk losing your job': Major drive launched to get people returning to the office Ministers warn that continuing to work from home could make staff ‘vulnerable’ to being sacked
- Normille 6y ago
  I had to laugh when I saw this report [0] “Clearly people should be going back to work because it is safe to do so. There are already problems with workers’ mental health. It’s not just about hard-nosed economics,” the report said, citing a Cabinet minister. The idea that this is not a purely economics-driven initiative and that the government gives a flying fuck about the mental health of the working population is so beyond farce as to be an insult. How stupid do they think we are? [0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-job/johnson-to-launch-drive-to-get-britain-back-to-the-office-telegraph-idUKKBN25N34M https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
  - davidgerard 6y ago
    basically, (a) no actual office worker believes the government line on this (b) the employers - who are actually paying people to work from home - don't believe the government line either
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - bluntfang 6y ago
    >How stupid do they think we are? what's the phrase? "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it"?

ethanbond 6y ago

No need to call anyone sheep for having jobs to feed themselves and their families.

slap_shot 6y ago
The fact that people are feeding themselves and their families is irrelevant. They're still doing something in a flock like a flock of sheep.
- op00to 6y ago
  Is voting acting like a flock of sheep? Would sitting on a Jury be similar? Your view is terribly offensive.
  - dontcarethrow2 6y ago
    To us or the flock? We are animals, analogies using other animals shouldn't be taken so heavy? Bring any herder to the city and see if he finds a difference.
  - onionisafruit 6y ago
    "Flock to the polls" is a common phrase in headlines. So that’s some evidence that others see voting as flock behavior. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “flock to the jury boxes” though. For whatever reason when I see a “flock to” headline I think of birds, not sheep. Specifically I think of flamingos.
danjac 6y ago
The wording is maybe a bit off, but the point about a media campaign is spot on. To quote Karl Marx: "The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent." For example: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlejohn-work-from-home-covid-19-the-daily-mail-1-6813025 https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlej...

noir_lord 6y ago

It is a shame that your message got lost in the tone. It's pretty clear that they are pushing in the media for people to return to work and quite often that is not going to be to the benefit of the people they are pushing back. I on the other hand deliberately switched jobs to a role that was 100% remote forever because it is what is in my best interest.

papito 6y ago

I really hate conspiracies, but this global cabal of ultra-rich, herding the sheep to slaughter for gigantic short-term profits while burning the world down, is beginning to get on my nerves. But don't look there! Tom Hanks and Oprah are pedophile cannibals, and they need to be stopped at ALL costs!