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[–] Frogster8@lemmy.world 120 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Must be the most pointless thing in the world, and terrible for the environment, have everyone travel in separate cars to work in the exact same way as they could at home.

Add in the fact there's always 1 person not there or with a client/customer based elsewhere, so all your calls and meetings are still done through video.

[–] 1984 63 points 8 months ago

Yeah but think about the property prices... Rich people losing money. What a tragedy.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 36 points 8 months ago

I love going into the office my one day a week. It's a new, less comfortable place to sit on Teams meetings! /s

[–] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago (3 children)

All unions should be taking up the issue of the right to remote work.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Don't most union workers currently work in jobs that don't make sense to be remote like manufacturing? I wish there was a tech workers union that could push for this. I'm no union expert though

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

All tech workers should join a union first .. but yes, agreed.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

That would require that office workers unionize. Which, while hopefully being more common nowadays, is still seen as antithetical to most office workers.

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have a friend who works in the R* office in Massachusetts. The whole fucking company sounds like an abject nightmare to work for. Between the Stasi-esque HR lady that wanders around making notes of who is at their desks, to the legions of indoctrinated kool-aid drinkers, onto the just bizarre behind the scenes decisions and poor management.

He's been dreading this announcement for a while now, and it may just be the one thing that will rip the scales off the otherwise creepily loyal workers.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Corporate America can absolutely be a cult. I've jumped around a fair bit, but you can always tell who the lifers are. Think the company is their savior, love the CEO even though they only met them once, go to all the functions, it's sad to me. Most of those lifers were making much less than me because I jumped around to bump my salary, they are constantly passed over for promotions because "now just isn't the time", and usually they ignore their home life and never take PTO.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Not just corporate America, corporations around the world have it.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This will always be about power and useless managers feeling they aren't important.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 34 points 8 months ago

Or it's a layoff without actually doing the layoff process because they don't want to pay severance, and it would look bad in the headlines when they just announced GTA6.

[–] waybackguy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The article also links to another interesting article that begins by summarizing the disadvantages some employees experienced when the initial switch to working from home happened.

  1. Balancing work and kids at home;
  2. Finding space for a home office and learning new tools;
  3. Workdays at home alone;
  4. The line between work and life blurred.

Number 1 & 2 should not be an issue for most people now. Number 3 & 4 are personal and should not be used as an excuse to implement a company wide policy on everybody.

What does this say to the employee who disagrees with the company return to office "culture"? It says to them they aren''t welcome here. Imagine turning on your computer and being locked out. That's what happened during the Twitter X Corp takeover.

[–] waybackguy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Everyone working a desk job with a computer in a physical office space together is just about as practical as a large group meeting where one or two people speak with no input from others.

Some people may need to be in an office/meeting sometimes but most do not usually and it's a waste of time for the employee and a waste of money for the company. Just my opinion. ;)

It's also basically a pay cut and a huge loss of benefits. What does Rockstar have to say about that?

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

are they just trying to get some people to quit before they do expensive layoffs