Why are bosses so intent on getting you back to the office?? Some people said that it's because they rent office space which they want to use, but that seems too simple an explanation.
I think it's just about being able to control you and they feel you can't slack off at work, but it also seems weird. Idk why they fixate on office presence so much.
Also it's just backwards. We're not in the 50s anymore and proof that will make sense to a boss is that management styles have changed drastically. In the 50s you had a college educated boss barking orders at you. Nowadays, they kindly ask you to do something and ask for your input.
When workers say they're actually more productive when working from home, maybe you should listen to them??
I think commercial real estate interests invested heavily into all of the magazines that rich people read and they're too dumb to notice they're being played.
Consistent with my CEOs back to office orders containing an accidental admission that we've never been more successful or efficient than during WFH.
i think that is a key thing which is easy to overlook. rents in "hot" zoned commercial spaces are wild. add in parking infrastructure rentiers and the landlords of those captive situations in office parks where some landlord can command an insane price point for the one smoothie place or coffee joint that serves the workers on breaks and lunches, and you've got a group of people with a fuckload of passive money existentially threatened by a shift to WFH.
I posted this elsewhere but it’s because they know when you WFH you can get one over on them. Instead of wasting downtime pretending to work you can now use that time to do things you find fulfilling. They hate that they have to pay you to take walks or work in your garden. It’s purely a control thing.
I currently work 3 jobs, 1 of which is wfh and done entirely during the downtime of my weekend / evening job. As a result I'm able to pull a middle class income.
This is purely about the structure and justification of management. WFH removes the ability of management to monitor a human in a room, which is basically their whole job. Middle and upper management seek to justify their jobs.
In addition to the psychology here, the ability to monitor a workforce is also the ability to discipline it. How do you keep tabs on who's trying to form a union? How do you keep people distracted from real wage cuts with pizza parties and shit? In-person interaction with a petty dictator is perceived as having a moderating effect and the ability to steer the "culture" and "direction" of the company. Filling up a company with middle managers is a fairly common anti-union technique in France.
Everyone knows it is against the immediate bottom line, they just care about these other things more and capitalism gives them feudal lord powers over their little fiefdom.
Absolitely. And if it's retail or food service or similar, they also have to do basically the same work as everyone else but take all of the flak for scheduling that was actually determined 3 levels up.
Why are bosses so intent on getting you back to the office?? Some people said that it's because they rent office space which they want to use, but that seems too simple an explanation.
I think it's just about being able to control you and they feel you can't slack off at work, but it also seems weird. Idk why they fixate on office presence so much.
Also it's just backwards. We're not in the 50s anymore and proof that will make sense to a boss is that management styles have changed drastically. In the 50s you had a college educated boss barking orders at you. Nowadays, they kindly ask you to do something and ask for your input.
When workers say they're actually more productive when working from home, maybe you should listen to them??
I think commercial real estate interests invested heavily into all of the magazines that rich people read and they're too dumb to notice they're being played.
Consistent with my CEOs back to office orders containing an accidental admission that we've never been more successful or efficient than during WFH.
They always retreat back to “we’re not innovating”
Meanwhile points at record earnings scoreboard
i think that is a key thing which is easy to overlook. rents in "hot" zoned commercial spaces are wild. add in parking infrastructure rentiers and the landlords of those captive situations in office parks where some landlord can command an insane price point for the one smoothie place or coffee joint that serves the workers on breaks and lunches, and you've got a group of people with a fuckload of passive money existentially threatened by a shift to WFH.
I posted this elsewhere but it’s because they know when you WFH you can get one over on them. Instead of wasting downtime pretending to work you can now use that time to do things you find fulfilling. They hate that they have to pay you to take walks or work in your garden. It’s purely a control thing.
They want full control over the labor power they're buying; if your workers can WFH what's to stop them from drawing multiple paychecks??
Edit: :porky-scared-flipped:
Did I mention I hate this shit (real)
Very good point, somehow this hadn’t occurred to me
I currently work 3 jobs, 1 of which is wfh and done entirely during the downtime of my weekend / evening job. As a result I'm able to pull a middle class income.
obviously not ideal, but still based. fuck'em X3
This is purely about the structure and justification of management. WFH removes the ability of management to monitor a human in a room, which is basically their whole job. Middle and upper management seek to justify their jobs.
In addition to the psychology here, the ability to monitor a workforce is also the ability to discipline it. How do you keep tabs on who's trying to form a union? How do you keep people distracted from real wage cuts with pizza parties and shit? In-person interaction with a petty dictator is perceived as having a moderating effect and the ability to steer the "culture" and "direction" of the company. Filling up a company with middle managers is a fairly common anti-union technique in France.
Everyone knows it is against the immediate bottom line, they just care about these other things more and capitalism gives them feudal lord powers over their little fiefdom.
And in America. Every retail store I've worked at has been 1/3rd managers who make a dollar or two more but aren't in the bargaining unit.
Absolitely. And if it's retail or food service or similar, they also have to do basically the same work as everyone else but take all of the flak for scheduling that was actually determined 3 levels up.
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Because they're also landlords and they need number to go up.
Subconscious knowledge that if your workers are comfortable, you can’t use misery as a leverage e.g. reserve army for labor