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I work for a non profit. After two years or letting everyone at home, this month they're forcing people to come to office at least twice a week. Not only that,
by akudha 4y ago
I work for a non profit. After two years or letting everyone at home, this month they're forcing people to come to office at least twice a week. Not only that, anyone going to work has to book a desk in advance, otherwise they'll be sitting on the floor with their computer on their laps.
This makes no difference to me personally, as I am a thousand miles away in another state, so I lucked out. I am still working from home.
None of this makes any sense whatsoever. I am totally expecting people to leave, just because they are forced to commute.
This is one of the nicer places I have worked. I dread to image what it would be like, in some of the shittier jobs I have had.
In my opinion, anyone who can work from home should do so. It frees up the traffic, makes office space more affordable for those businesses who do need space (dentist, restaurant etc) and in general win-win for everyone. All this talk of making "human connections" at work is just bullshit. Offices are just noisy, leads to office politics and meaningless meetings, cubicles are shitty, open office plans are shittier...
Either that, or make sensible but much, much harder changes to housing, transporation etc. Since nobody seems ready to take on that work, the easier solution is to just let people work from home. It won't solve all problems, but it is a good start
- giancarlostoro 4y ago> otherwise they'll be sitting on the floor with their computer on their laps. Why bother showing up at that point.
- falcolas 4y agoA one-sided sense of loyalty.
- albatross13 4y agoProbably the same reason the people who still work at twitter show up, it's either some weird sense of loyalty or perhaps it helps them feel like part of the "those who grind" clique. I dunno man, people are weird.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoAll that plus interviewing is broken as shit. Then just the thought of changing jobs is stressful enough, but looking for work while Elmo is breathing down your neck has to be some next level stress. I can see where they would be paralyzed into staying a while.
- pro_zac 4y agoI sympathize the Twitter workers that are on work visas. Much harder for them to jump ship. They have to tolerate the nonsense or relocate back to their home country. Especially difficult if you own a home and/or have a family.
- 0xGod 4y agoBecause they have no power and need the income to eat, and their despotic bosses know this. What is happening right now with remote work is that we are seeing very clearly who actually does any work and who doesn’t. The people who don’t do any work are the ones who demand you be in an office hybrid setting or full return to office.
- malermeister 4y ago> leads to office politics That's exactly what they miss. Those people became powerful by playing that game of office politics and now have nowhere to do that anymore.