Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?

DarkMessiah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not just the corporations renting those offices, it’s the politicians of downtown areas that fear a downturn in tax revenue due to more empty offices and less people getting their daily coffee/lunch/after work drinks.

  And of course, if everyone’s working remotely, this means it’s a lot easier to find a better job without even needing to leave the house to interview, which gives employees a better bargaining position (downside is that employers will start looking at employees in lower paying countries as well).

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  • Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    downside is that employers will start looking at employees in lower paying countries as well).

    Tale as old as time

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  • Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All of this is happening with my company as we speak. I actually did a remote interview today while on my lunch hour. And the company has just rolled out plans for “clerical help” based out of India. I’m in the U.S.

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  • Yearly1845@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The city of Seattle was literally crumbling before most of the major tech giants RTO.

      Im not sure Republicans have had much control there in a few decades.

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Republicans did a shitty job of planning New York City? When did this happen?

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh, all those cities are Democrat run. Economically they’re essentially the same.

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• Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find it real fascinating how many people are blindsided by the fact that the people who own things that focus on making a profit skew the information they put out to benefit themselves. Did they think they were impartial or something? I mean they claim their neutral they don’t ever show that they’re neutral.

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• gornar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the proven financial benefit of having people work from home must not be as profitable as corporate real estate, or companies wouldn’t be requiring in-office work again!

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