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Employees are part of the market dynamics. We choose where to work, and we vote with our employers.

• ausbah 3y ago
  this assumes there's always an alternative employer who offers remote work as an option. tech is pretty privileged as a field bc demand > supply for a very long time affording many benefits other fields don't have. now that demand has decreased, companies can affront more control. could easily see remote work become incredibly scared as middle / small companies following signals of larger companies mandating rto
  • gnicholas 3y ago
    It seems that there's a paradox here: if remote work is good for companies, then why would there not be other companies offering it as an option? It seems like at least one of these statements has to be false. My guess is that remote work is not actually good for all companies, which is leading some of them to call for RTO. Other companies will keep it, but perhaps not as many as employees would like. The same could be said for many aspects of work, like free lunches/dinners/massages, which are also disappearing as the supply/demand equilibrium is shifting as you describe.
• toxik 3y ago
  In theory yes, in practice, the market produces ugly effects all the time. Child labor, for example. But I suppose you vote with your wallet or something.