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It's just the corporation friendly mass media trying to combat calls for better worker treatment/compensation. This is just the next single from the album that
by dfxm12 4y ago
It's just the corporation friendly mass media trying to combat calls for better worker treatment/compensation. This is just the next single from the album that brought us "quiet quitting", "the great resignation", "millennials are lazy", etc. It's important for the backers of these media outlets to float these stories out there, lest anyone become sympathetic to workers in light of the facts that minimum wage hasn't kept up with either inflation or productivity, that corporations are engaging in profit inflation, that the fed is intentionally raising rates to wrest back some power from workers, and so on.
- ryanwaggoner 4y agoAlso the cries for returning to the office
- spacemadness 4y agoI guess it’s helpful to own all the media when you need to spread your propaganda around.
- JJMcJ 4y agoYes, this is "proof" that remote work is less productive.
- dougmwne 4y agoLiterally one of these on the front page of the NYT today, fully of chirpy anecdotes about people ditching the sweatpants and silly comments about how much our dogs will miss us when we go back to "real work". You may kindly shove it, NYT. I'm not going back. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/return-to-office-employee-satisfaction.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/return-to-offi...
- Nathanba 4y agoreally a bit hard to believe that these kinds of articles aren't paid for by some industry group
- Test0129 4y agoDo you believe they aren't for some reason? It's not like they release whose buying ads if you ask.
- codalan 4y agoIt is. The NYT Real Estate section is a pretty sickening read for most of the 99% who aren't totally disconnected from reality and don't have a million plus in cash to toss away on a second home. Every time I've read that section, it felt like product placement for luxury home realtors and commercial property owners.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoYears ago the NYT was great. Now it's so cringy that half the time you wonder if it was hacked / hijacked by TMZ. Sadly, in terms of trust and credibility TMZ wins. It's never anything less or more than it promises to be. If only other media outlets were as honest and had as much integrity.
- sethd 4y agoI agree but I’d say it’s become more like something that resembles Huffington Post than TMZ.
- randycupertino 4y agoI mean, NYT also is telling us that lace is in style for men right now sooo if you have to ditch the sweatpants for the office maybe consider a lace overcoat? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/style/mens-wear-lace-fashion-trend.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/style/mens-wear-lace-fash...
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- makosdv 4y agoYeah, this "new" trend of "quiet quitting" sounds so silly. People have been behaving like that for a very long time and they've probably always done it.
- jointpdf 4y agoIt’s worse than silly. I had to ragequit this (https://hbr.org/2022/09/when-quiet-quitting-is-worse-than-the-real-thing https://hbr.org/2022/09/when-quiet-quitting-is-worse-than-th...) article from HBR on “quiet quitting” after reading: > Quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known as citizenship behaviors: no more staying late, showing up early, or attending non-mandatory meetings. Yes, we should all bereave the withering of classical virtues—like sacrificing our health and time with loved ones in order to provide free labor.
- gausswho 4y agoSuch nerve. Instead of the talking about the downsides of increased surveillance and quantification of worker performance, blame the worker for not going above and beyond. As an employeee in this new landscape, of course you'll save powder for your official requirements, that's OKRs and KPIs working as designed.
- w1nst0nsm1th 4y ago> that the fed is intentionally raising rates to wrest back some power from workers The fed is increasing interest rates to keep dollars attractive as a world currency and allows the US governments to keep increase national debt whithout sending interest rate of through the roof. It may seem counter-intuitive, but letting inflation going out of control would have a major negative impact on demand of debt issued in dollar or, to make it short, US government debt. The only alternative would be to fund government spending with government revenues. Which means, increase taxes for categories of revenues which amount the most in national revenues.
- r00fus 4y agoJust remember who owns the WaPo and it makes a lot more sense.