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>Unless they were hired in areas far away. I think you have a lot to learn about the average commute. Why would people, whose employer made record profits duri
by wildrhythms 3y ago
>Unless they were hired in areas far away.
I think you have a lot to learn about the average commute. Why would people, whose employer made record profits during COVID/WFH, want to spend often hours of their day doing unpaid commuting to an office where the work is exactly the same as it is at their home?
- Gigachad 3y agoI'm not talking about what they want or what is most convenient. I'm responding to the claim that the workers were "forced to quit". Unless they lived in another city, they aren't being forced to quit, they are being forced to work in the office. They might _want_ to quit, but that's their choice.
- Spooky23 3y agoGive me a break. They started union activity, and suddenly the work rules change. Unions generally don’t take a strong position on WFH… it weakens the negotiation position, as if you can work at your apartment across town, you can also work from the Philippines or India.
- danaris 3y agoWhen people talk about being "forced to quit", no one means they've got a gun to their heads. No one means they're having their hands moved to type a resignation letter. They mean that conditions are being deliberately degraded in order to make it harder to feel OK working there. You may enjoy the taste of boot, but not all of us do, and some of us recognize that valuing workers as human beings is more important than just blindly obeying every single dictate that comes down from On High. "Human needs" are more than just the things we absolutely have to have for survival; even the somewhat-creaky Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs has over half the height of the pyramid being non-basic needs.