Comment on The absurdity of the return-to-office movement

philo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s actually some people from the older more entitled generation feel that their employees that had schedules adjusted to allow work from home during covid, feel that since the pandemic has ended employees must come back to office and work under direct supervision in their pretty fiefdom, AND be entitled to their employees’ unpaid time commuting even though WFH is more efficient and better for most employees. Sounds reasonable 🤣

  One of the reasons companies are pushing for return to office is simply because WFH scares middle managers because they can’t keep constant watch over everyone and see the faces of subordinates at all times. It puts them in a very precarious position to learn that most people are still productive even without their constant breathing down everyone’s necks. They want to return to a worse past because it was a setup they were just personally more comfortable with even though it comes at the expense of workers’ well-being both mental and physical.

  Also, consider the commercial real estate market! If people work from home then just think of how all those property investment portfolios will suffer; the absolute horror of it all!

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  • philo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let me guess, you got fired from McDonalds?

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    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, I work an office job.

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• pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll bite, what’s the reason you think people have to go into the office if they get their work done more efficiently not doing so?

  Do the employees somehow owe their free time to the employers? Should we kiss their boots while we’re at it?

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  • philo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you skip over the part where I said the adjustments were made so the employees could continue to work during the covid pandemic. They were TEMPORARY. Are you one of the entitled who think they don’t have to listen and do what they are told by an employer (as long as it isn’t illegal or dangerous).

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    • pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And we found that overwhelmingly employees were happier and worked more efficiently from home.

      I don’t care if they were intended to be temporary. I do not owe my employer any more than the work they pay me to do. If I do that same work from home, in less time, more efficiently, and effectively, than any employer making me go to an office can go fuck thesmelves.

      Again, you haven’t said a reason employees should have to go in. You reek of “Well I suffered so everyone else has to hur dur”

      The world changes, get with the fucking times and stop licking the boots of your corporate overlords.

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      • philo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If so, you can go fuck your job. After all, a job is a responsibility not a right as some seem to think.

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• CylustheVirus@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Congratulations on joining several thousand years worth of old farts whining about the entitled young folk. What a devastatingly original take.

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