https://fortune.com/2023/04/28/jamie-dimon-says-remote-works-can-go-elsewhere/
Less than a day after the committee shared the memo and scores of workers reacted, comments were reportedly turned off.
:1984:
I don't even get it. There is literally no benefit for the major company I work for to make me go back to the office, but they're doing it anyway.
I tried to get an accommodation request from my psychiatrist to let me stay home, but it would only last 3 months and they want $75. I might just have to do it though.
Because there's massive piles of money invested in commercial buildings and offices that are just sitting there, wanting to be filled with miserable people under fluorescent lights.
They don't even own the building I work in, they're paying some landleech so they can force me to work from the office for no good reason. It would save them money to let me keep working from home.
It really is just securing the social reproduction of the PMC class, isn't it? How will all their failchildren continue the family trade if all the workers prove they don't need overseers?
I think it's at least part of the motivation, but I think even the c-suite dickheads want to see an office full of people they "control" present every day. There's some kind of self-worth invested in having peons to justify living high on the hog.
Now that I think about it, some enterprising person could probably sell a software suite that just stacks outputs of every remote employee into a screen so the managers can see mouses moving, people on their webcams, etc, but all of it on one screen so they can feel powerful
Your employers have more in common with their landlord than they have with you, and they know it.
Yeah but then you might be less miserable and have more control over your life
One theory is that they’re trying to lower employment. The fed and companies have been saying too many people are working. Forcing people to do something as insane as returning to an office when it has been proven that workers are as productive if not more productive at home means many will quit, saving you from being the bad guy who fires everyone
Three years into the return to office battle
[counts on fingers] :bean-think:
:geordi-no: COVID is over in 2023!
:geordi-yes: COVID was over in 2021!
According to this article, we should have gone back to the office when trump said it would be over by easter 2020
And people always wonder why I support more planning in the economy. :amerikkka: sucks ass, even among capitalist countries.
