this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2024
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Yeah because what people really love about working from home is being near their sofa and fireplace. This should completely solve it. No other benefits from working remotely at all
The commute is the first problem, not the aesthetics. The second problem is being able to just stop working and do life shit for a bit on a whim with no pressure or fear so long as you're getting the work done then there's not a problem.
Boss can't solve the commute. They can solve the tyrants in the office making all that pressure and fear but they don't. The pressure is the point.
we have to demolish bike lanes to shave 1.2 seconds off of car commutes but also car commutes are not enough of a problem to justify working from home
It is really nice to be able to keep track of your kids/elderly parents while working. It's good peace of mind. Not to mention the time reclaimed from commuting. Workplaces aren't going to be able to ballpit their way out of this for every worker.
I've changed the aesthetics of all the things that cause problems in your life, why are you still mad?
they've forestalled a collapse in commercial real estate for several years now. how much longer can they keep the plates spinning?
again I am left wondering why people keep going for the B&B Hotels (TM) personal living room experience instead of like, a laundry service or catered food or any other dozen of services people regularly need anways that would entice them to come to the office because they'd save time. Equipping every office space with a simulacra of somewhere you'd want to be can't come cheaper than striking a business deal with some sort of dry cleaning service 3 houses over
Company towns enter the chat
My first thoughts as well. Next step is a little “bedroom” with rent taken out of your paycheck.
The workhouses are coming back.
The issue is it's a one time expense vs recurring expense.
Sofas for your moron employees goes on capex table, dry cleaning is opex and investors want opex as low as possible to extract money.
It's the reason Google used the pandemic to stop offering services to employees. Austerity has hit those offices 4 times over now.
Capex sofas are the consolation prize.
the looney toons imagery is apt. these people are crazy. like yeah, just turn my office into my shitty living room and I'll be tricked into wanting to come and hang out there, instead of my real one in my house.
they think of us as the most simplistic prey in a 1960s cartoon.
It took me longer than i care to admit to parse that word and when i did, mfw:
this back to office stuff is so deranged. they desperately need some stooge looming over you to make sure the boss feels he's getting his money's worth.
The same stooges Elmo claims are lazy.
Edit; it’s a difficult one cause probably most of them are, but I don’t want to agree with Elmo.
So are they hiring for in-office positions then? 
They’re hiring, right? 
that's what the company i work for just finished doing
the business roundtable really does just dictate what all these companies do don't they?
I swear major companies cannot be this invested in commercial real estate, and that surely a substantial number would rather not have the significant cost of renting commercial real estate, but here we are
Hold up. How do they know what my place looks like?