I feel like helping local economy is the only valid reason against work from home.
But, you know. Not like better city planning wouldn’t help this.
Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Exactly how my office is doing things. All of us are tracked by our phones to ensure commutes and then by IP address pulled from Entra ID and company-wide VPN. They cross reference it with our seat booking system.
We were 100% remote for all employees since March 2019. Managers now encourage us to go out and buy food at the restaurants nearby (some even “jokingly” ask for receipts which some people keep).
It’s more important to hold up the economy than lower emissions and improve morale, employee happiness, and productivity.
AbsoluteAggressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
You should have a local economy where you live…
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My city of 3000 people certainly appreciates us buying locally. Some other city that’s 100x the size? They’re gonna be fine. Is the real estate price really so important business would rather make us buy goods from nearby places?
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Companies have heavy commercial real estate bags. They are justifying their investments by forcing RTO
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Imagine reading in a national newspaper that a government official wanted workers back downtown to fix the downtown economy and then learning 3 days later that you must start showing up to an office to sit on Teams calls with your nationally dispersed team.
Banzai51@midwest.social 7 months ago
Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.
giloronfoo@beehaw.org 7 months ago
As much as I hate to admit it, the conversations that happen because I overheard another conversation a couple cubes over do have value.
letsgo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If they have value to the company then how about sharing the costs of commuting? A 50-50 split seems reasonable to me. The company gets the value of those conversations, and the plebs get some help with all that fuel they now have to buy, at ridiculous prices due to high oil prices.
dandi8@kbin.social 7 months ago
Jesus, that sounds like hell.