Because the conservatives who populate the C-suite just about everywhere in the world have decided that control is more important than worker satisfaction or productivity.
Remote work is only for the owner class, not for the plebs
More like their friends own the building and they own their friends’ buildings and they’re all doing each other a favor to keep commercial real estate from declining.
I know that’s probably the right answer. But it’s also… something-something… optics and feels, or something else in the headspace of those in charge?
Why? As tenants they’re still paying for electricity, A/C, heat, insurance, security, and office staff. And all that gets replaced with a beefier VPN and Zoom/Teams/Slack subscription, which a lot of businesses already had back in 2019. So, paying the remainder of the lease and having everyone work from home would still save money. Plus, I bet it would be possible to pay a reduced amount up-front in order to break the lease (say 75% of the remaining months), just so the building owner could (potentially) rent the space to someone else and double-dip. The fact that this isn’t the math everyone is doing, just plain stinks.
Because the conservatives who populate the C-suite just about everywhere in the world have decided that control is more important than worker satisfaction or productivity.
Remote work is only for the owner class, not for the plebs
Nah, it’s that they signed multi-year leases and have to justify spending the money.
More like their friends own the building and they own their friends’ buildings and they’re all doing each other a favor to keep commercial real estate from declining.
I know that’s probably the right answer. But it’s also… something-something… optics and feels, or something else in the headspace of those in charge?
Why? As tenants they’re still paying for electricity, A/C, heat, insurance, security, and office staff. And all that gets replaced with a beefier VPN and Zoom/Teams/Slack subscription, which a lot of businesses already had back in 2019. So, paying the remainder of the lease and having everyone work from home would still save money. Plus, I bet it would be possible to pay a reduced amount up-front in order to break the lease (say 75% of the remaining months), just so the building owner could (potentially) rent the space to someone else and double-dip. The fact that this isn’t the math everyone is doing, just plain stinks.
You’re not thinking 1 quarter at a time.
Surely it must be one or the other.
For tech jobs maybe. For any office type jobs that are associated with something physical being built, in person is better for everyone.
Yeah no duh, it’s not like Zoom is targeted at eg. manufacturing jobs or that anybody is even saying remote work should be the norm for everyone
Lots of manufacturers use suppliers in different regions and countries. So zoom still makes sense for them too.
Except that’s what you said.
Really doesn’t leave much room for nuance.
“Except that’s what you said.”
You seem to have issues with either parsing or critical reading skills.
Weird hill to die on
At least their dead i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯