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Millions more workers have been called back to the office, even at traditionally remote companies such as Zoom and Amazon

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These people are adults. You can trust them to do their jobs, and if for some reason you don't want to, there are hundreds of metrics you can track to see if people are getting their work done.

Just let people work where they are happiest.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

These people are laborers setting the terms and conditions of their labor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, just put software on all the machines that tracks mouse clicks or keyboard presses every 20 seconds. Watch hardware devices for mouse jigglers. You can track every time they take a shit.

Plus you get to layoff employees without calling it layoffs. Wall street loves that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I mean, you could do that. Or you could just track the work they are doing by seeing it show up in whatever business tracking software you're already using to keep track of whatever KPMs you've deemed important.

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

Just let people work where they are happiest.

Happy people stick up for themselves, know their worth, and buy less products to compensate for misery. porky-scared

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article sounds like it was written by a corporate boot licker. They can write whatever nonsense they want. Come Monday I'll be working from a couch with a laptop and maybe clothes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Narrator Voice: It was, in fact, written by a corporate bootlicker.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then why does the boss only shows up in meeting via teams?

This is bs

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

There’s a good chance those who complain the loudest are among the underperformers anyway, so losing them will not affect productivity.

At first, I thought this was bullshit. But then I realized it’s probably true. Because the most talented performers, when pressed to RTO, don’t complain at all - they just quit and live off their dividends.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i bet this guy goes in 9-5 every day to write his shitty column

[–] Kecessa 23 points 1 year ago

It's frustrating when you realise that all the people who write these opinion pieces have been working from home for a very long time before the pandemic. The hypocrisy is too real...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently people who own companies and people who own commercial real estate are the same people.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

"US-based columnist for the Globe & Mail"

So, definitely showing up to those local Canadian offices daily.

Eat shit and die, Gus, ya corporate toad. As if the PostMedia Group wasn't capable of being a big enough shill for billionaire interests on its own.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Lol fuck no eat shit scumlord

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to grow up

The most immature adults I've ever known, consistently, are the ones that are preoccupied with some performative pretense of maturity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Grow up = do what I want

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Fuck the Globe and Mail.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"grow up and get back to mines"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My god, they seriously wrote that WFH is bad because ... cough cough ... most of the work is done by a select few. They really believe in-office work makes that problem any better? And anyway, if the bosses are relying on performance metrics that are easy to game, of course people will do so, regardless of where they are.

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

There’s a good chance those who complain the loudest are among the underperformers anyway, so losing them will not affect productivity.

So Jamie Dimon, then.

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

Left Chase in February and even though it was terrible, literally evil, and run by the devil Jamie Dimon, I fucking wish I had that paycheck right about now. 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Millions of white-collar workers grumbled their way back to offices this week under various on-site attendance mandates, lamenting the fact that Mr. Hyde, not his softer alter ego, is alive and well and setting HR strategy at their companies.

In their backpacks and totes, they lugged with them a sense of entitlement and activism that has shaped workplaces since before the pandemic enabled widespread remote work, often putting them at odds with leaders and begging the question: Who’s in charge?

Remote-work boosters counter that productivity among the work-at-home set is higher because they work longer hours and can maintain a better work-life balance, though many of the studies supporting this claim are based on self-reporting.

At the same time, many companies have become soft – even cowardly – fearful that mandating in-office work or saying no to their employees will exacerbate an already tight talent market.

These happy places have quiet spaces for contemplation, collaboration stations, sitting and lounging areas, food courts – basically, replicas of home environments that effectively separate a worker’s nose from any grindstone.

In an effort to attract and retain young, creative talent, the corporate suits created office environments that were more playgrounds than workspaces.


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[–] PizzasDontWearCapes 3 points 1 year ago

Calling companies "soft" lamenting employee perks (that were actually meant to keep people at the office longer than just 8hrs a day), and using Jamie Dimon (bailout king) as an expert reference - this is all tough guy corporate bullshit

[–] SeeingWhereThisGoes 2 points 1 year ago

It's time to quarter-ass it in office and tank that productivity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The word "entitlement" is do over-used and abused, it needs to be stricken from the language.

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

I want to believe this article is satire… At least that’s how I read it.

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

that seems like a good coping mechanism tbh. i might do that to save my blood pressure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Globe and Mail is a terrible name from someone not very creative.