Submitted 9 months ago by SuperSpaceFan@lemmy.ca to workreform@lemmy.world
Every federal worker just had to start thanks to Biden stripping the decision from individual agencies
www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/…/index.html
Republicans were the only ones asking for it tho, and obviously as soon as Biden did it, they stopped mentioning it.
There’s no reason to try and appease Republicans, because they’ll never give Dems credit, even if a moderate one does exactly what they want.
Or as we saw with the infrastructure bill
GOP: opposes bill purely for the optics
Dems: push it through anyway
GOP: “look what I did for my constituents”
So why do some bosses still feel it necessary to prolong the slow and necessary death of The Office? Beats me.
Because corporations paid for rental contracts for many years ahead, and also because a lot of local businesses depends on people buying expensive coffees and lunches to stay afloat.
This is why media is pushing for it, because the people who owns the media is also owning those restaurants and coffee places.
It seems it’s rarely brought up in these conversations, but another stupid thing about return to office is that we know that commuting is a major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and particulate pollution. So working from home would not only be an improvement in work conditions, sparing millions of individuals hours of wasted commuting time each week, it would also be an easy way to reduce pollution and mitigate global warming.
Laws should be passed that mandate employees can work from home whenever it cannot be demonstrated by the company hiring them that being on site is absolutely necessary to do the job.
Because wealthy office building owners are pushing everyone to keep using the offices.
0110010001100010@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m a cloud engineer working with a team across the US and a development team in India. My closest co-worker is my boss that brought me on-board and a quick 20 minute drive away. He’s the anomaly.
The next closest I believe would be 3 states away. If for some reason I was to be in an office, my day would literally be unchanged. It would be me working in the cloud (which isn’t location-dependent) and me on Teams/Zoom meetings with my co-workers.
If a job can be done remote, it’s dumb to require in-person work. This is doubly true if they wouldn’t see their co-workers face-to-face anyway.
1984@lemmy.today 9 months ago
I have 4 days from home and it’s heaven. I have a good salary too, although maybe I could get more if I was going for those consulting jobs where you sit at a customers office. But no way I’m ever doing that again.
I meet those consultants in team meetings and they are all dressed up, talking in a very “professional” way, acting like robots. I hope they are happy but I rather sit in my ordinary clothes at home and have a lot of free time before and after work. :)