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What if Financial Times has a vested interest in the real estate industry, and therefore wants RTO mandates? Something something AI I mean.
by bradleyy 4mo ago
What if Financial Times has a vested interest in the real estate industry, and therefore wants RTO mandates? Something something AI I mean.
- aaron695 4mo ago[dead]
- jjtheblunt 4mo agoi'm glad reading your comment, because i nearly always get that feeling with FT articles, and very often with Economist patronizing subset of articles.
- throwaway2037 4mo agoCan you provide some example financial/economic newspapers and magazines that do not give you "that feeling"?
- jjtheblunt 4mo agoDeutsche Welle and usually Reuters, sometimes AP News. To your point, it _is_ somewhat random
- throwaway2037 4mo agoNone of your examples are "financial/economic newspapers and magazines". Rather, they are general news sources that occaisionally report on financial/economic topics. I was being very specific in my OP. Also, "somewhat random" reads like pure tin-foil hat nonsense to me. It sounds like: "If they agree with me, it is good; else they are a rubbish news source." I see this much too often on HN where someone claims the vast majority of major news sources cannot be trusted and only they know which news sources (and specific articles) can be trusted.
- jjtheblunt 4mo agoagreed with your general point that I'm having to look across multiple different news sources, each _not_ specialized in financial/economic news, to attempt to reconstruct viewpoints not propagandized by whomever. in my case I look across countries for their news versions, which seems useful. and, yes, "seems" is vague but that's at least an attempt.
- gedy 4mo agoYeah "work from home" largely means "work from more affordable real estate". Very very few people do I know who work from home do it for digital nomad type reasons. Everyone else is due to not being able to afford anything near the office.
- Tade0 4mo agoEach and every parent of 4+ whom I worked with lived in the middle of nowhere and would only emerge from the deep woods for an occasional workshop a few times a year. It's a lifestyle impossible if one has to show up an hour's drive away, every weekday.
- kj4211cash 4mo agoYes! I'm "only" a parent of 3 and live nowhere near my coworkers and would be happiest never going to the office. I have been told to travel across the country to HQ every 2 months for vague reasons. I wish I could better articulate to my managers the costs of this policy to my family. Usually female managers understand.
- Tade0 4mo ago> I wish I could better articulate to my managers the costs of this policy to my family. Sounds like grounds for "take your child to work day". Do people still do that? I went a few times with my mom to her place in between school years.
- Gormo 4mo agoAlong with people who don't want to waste hours of their day on unproductive commute time.
- postexitus 4mo agoWow, took me 2 mins to scroll down to first anti-RTO comment - the sentiment is certainly shifting.
- elicash 4mo agoThe FT columnist/reporter, primarily, is lifting up this paper <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638> as his newsworthy hook. But his conclusion is that "the evidence consistently shows hybrid arrangements get the best results." So I don't get the sense that he has a bias towards any specific outcome, given this kind of middle position. And given he's the chief data reporter, it doesn't surprise me that he's looking at the academic work here.
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- chopete3 4mo agoIn capitalistic economies everything will have a vested interest. Especially anything done by an entity linked to for-profit.