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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The primary issue in this is that for years, both organizations and people have accepted that inside the office is the way that work has always been conducted (not true, by the way), that working in the office is an fundamental, unchangeable human nature and the only way which work can be done, and all attention to keep people happy at work is to iteratively improve by putting foosball table and catered lunches in the office.

So, when COVID showed that working from home is possible, even more efficient at times, against the perceived human nature to show that change can happen and the office isn't even NEEDED, the cynicism kicked in: to admit that work from home regularly is even possible would be to admit that the previous system was fundamentally wrong, and that having a giant office at all is ultimately a waste of money, which is why they are so desperate to revert and remove work from home to somehow justify paying for an office for all these years and that things can never change for the better, ever, and the broken system was to be always accepted.

It's a form of expression of despair, and despair often isn't logical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this the sunk cost fallacy?

For the unitiated: https://yourbias.is/the-sunk-cost-fallacy

The summary version is that you've spent so much time and money on something that you keep it around because you've spent so much time and money on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is! But I also think the reason is more than just the sunken cost fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems likely to me.

I could speculate on what that might be, but there's little value in such speculation.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] ChickenAndRice 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But playing dumb is way funnier though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t all beautiful women actually need to play dumb?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You watched the monologue part in that movie I can't promote right now, right?