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Which was highly successful, allowed for more productivity (the human species, like others, has performance gains when in comfortable and safe environments not
by drannex 2y ago
Which was highly successful, allowed for more productivity (the human species, like others, has performance gains when in comfortable and safe environments not befouled by exaggerated social animosities and fake niceties), aided those in marginalized (GSM, disabled) communities to complete work at the same level of interaction with others, and showed that most in-the-office activities are useless and hurts workers emotionally/physically.
The problem for them? They can't spy on and control your employees, which is what they want. They don't want their workers to have freedom, they want them to be slaves both in mentality and time, the most valuable aspects of our limited lives. This, with the added benefit, that anyone who doesn't "tow-the-line" will quit, reducing severance packages, etc. It's a harassment tactic to not pay out and force others to quit.
Perhaps those two should be required to be in a single office, all day, every day. Oh - that's right! They won't because it's a fucking nightmare and a waste of time, they are both paranoid messes and want to ensure they can track everything and everyone at all times. Must be great to be at the top to stifle the bottom.
tl;dr: They just want to spy on and control their employees, they know that remote working is highly effective, as they and their executive teams all do it, they just don't want others to have what used to be 'their special executive privilege'.
- bdangubic 2y agotl;dr: They just want to spy on and control their employees, guessing you are not a govie but EVERYTHING we do is fully controlled, including keystroke capture software and every other imaginable software you can think of that can tell exactly what you are doing every single second of the work day (or night)... it is even easier to spy and control remote workers than at-office workers - I have to do EVERYTHING now on the computer while at the office I can go to the breakroom and shit on Vivek and Must for hours :)
- drannex 2y agoTrust me, the kind of surveillance they do on a corporate level, in office, is far more intrusive than you would ever believe. There should be laws to protect workers like this, but this won't happen as it hurts the corporations in charge.
- bdangubic 2y agonot sure what they can do extra at the office other than put cameras in the bathroom :) our lives and work are mostly digital so honestly I don’t think surveillance is that much more prevalent in the office.
- magic_smoke_ee 2y agoThere are additional, multiple, overlapping and competing pressures: - Commercial real-estate owners pressure on tenant corporations to utilize buildings, which then pass it on to their employees - Pressure to use their owned real-estate - Investor and peer pressure for corporate management to do what everyone else is doing - Control through compliance
- qbxk 2y agoi think it's "toe the line" ie, put your foot right where they told you to, follow rules rigidly
- drannex 2y agoYou would be correct - I would blame autocorrect to save face here, but that would be a total lie. I had never really thought (and perhaps ever said that) before, so learned something new. Sometimes the most obvious is what sneaks past.