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Certainly what it felt like. A Fortune 500 company (sounds like IBM), 1 sales team anecdote, fear mongering over job loss for the remote’ers, and a very narrow

• spacemadness 4y ago
  It’s fascinating, as well as disheartening, watching the massive pushback to labor advances in real-time by corporate owned news media and by their helpers on social media. The layoffs seem to be a catalyst to claw back power, even if it is a side effect and not the sole reason for occuring.
  • dogman144 4y ago
    Ya I don’t think there’s something actively coordinated by some central party but definitely seems a bit close to manufacturing consent by a group of similarly incentivized parties. I never really bought into that mindset until seeing the remote work play out. Like NYT of all places, historically banging the gong for equality and progressive initiatives around the workplace, health , and environment, now covering zero of how remote helps all those.
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