Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking

• 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?

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  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Companies have heavy commercial real estate bags. They are justifying their investments by forcing RTO

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    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I genuinely refuse to believe it is more profitable for them to pay for AC, water and electricity that RTO would hike. There has to be something else I am missing.

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      • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.

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      • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s like buying a very expensive pool, even though it costs money to run and service, you already bought it and will invite people to come and swim in it to justify the purchase, even though it’s a giant money sink.

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