Work Reform

As soon as we created highspeed telecommunications possible across vast distances and that we are making them faster all the time .... making people travel to a work station makes less and less sense.

What does it make in a modern city? Let's make tens of thousands of people wake up at 6am and all travel to work at the exact same time every day. Let's make them all travel simultaneously at roughly the same two hour time slot every morning in the same direction.

Then at the end of the day, let's make them all make the return trip between 4pm and 6pm.

All because we want a captive group of workers to perform menial tasks they could perform in a couple of hours at home but instead they get to work and wander around and waste as much time as possible to justify why they are at work.

Too bad the folks in charge don't care about your happiness.

WFH enabled so many Americans who are disabled to actually hold a job, a job they wanted, and this is a direct attack on disabled employees and disabled people. WFH is inherently more accessible so you end up with more disabled employees, which cost your work sponsored health insurance to go up, which they do not want, so they erect this barrier of being in the office to prevent people who need to work from home from being employed there. Disallowing WFH is explicitly to get around the ADA

RTO is ableism

Why don't they add in shit employers care about like it makes everyone work 10x better only fools return to office. Shit like that. Shit people can use. The ghouls don't give a flying fuck if we are happy or not, eat better, sleep better. They want metrics that show if workers can produce more or not for same wages and same hours. Period.

Who is this study even for, who commissioned it.

We as a species had the opportunity to build a leisure society many times over the decades. We just prefer torturing each other with meaningless busy theater.

Much as I agree with the headline, this site appears to be entirely AI generated slop.

In other news, the sky is blue and water makes you wet.

LOL I just got one of those “all the data shows we’re Better Together, so we’re increasing in-office days. No, we’re not going to share any of the data.” emails.

This whole thing is just garbage and should probably be taken down -

• The writing quality is low and looks AI generated
• It doesn't actually link to a study that agrees with its conclusions
• The one study that was linked shows the following results:
  • More sleep (+27 minutes)
  • Less physical exercise (-50 minutes)
  • Worse diet (reduced amount of calories from protein)
  • Higher alcohol consumption (increased amount of calories from alcohol)
  • "no changes in weight or wellbeing"
  • "however, their impact on health and wellbeing may accumulate over time."

I don't think it's even out of the question that the study actually supports the opposite conclusion, but all of this of course doesn't matter since there was a massive confounding variable involved in that there was a global pandemic going on during the study.

My friend just lost a dream job they barely had for a week because the company went full RTO and they wanted him to relocate and he couldn't.

Fuck RTO.

Software engineer in New England here. I love love my by hybrid setup.

I go to the office whenever I want. Some days I feel more productive there, other days I want to sleep in a bit and work from home. I can charge my car for free at the office so that's a big motivator lol.

Needless to say, I'm happy and extremely productive. I'm sure the company benefits greatly.

I've reported directly to the head before. Here's why they don't like remote work. These bosses are typically highly narcissist paired with paranoia.

I think many CEOs thinks like Trump, so let's work off that. They have narcissism and paranoia. They are highly insecure. They assume the worst and others, but have ridiculously high expectations.

Trump can't fathom people doing the right thing for the sake of it. He has never done a thing that didn't benefit him. He can't imagine not cheating someone given a chance. He's cheated every single time.

My CEO was highly paranoid. He decided to setup cameras anywhere. He started confronting employees who left early or arrived later not understanding that everybody doesn't arrive or leave the office at the same time. Even though the company needed focus on the agenda, he spent most of his time stalking employees.

When I was confronted for leaving early, I had to explain that I'm still working while making a delivery on my way home, or that it's okay for me to be late if the first thing I do when I wake up is to respond to urgent emails and make important calls. This resulted in retaliatory pay cuts, so I quit. Of course, the business could not afford to lose me, so now I do contract work for more than double per hour and found a new job that treats everyone a lot better.

These people are truly detached from reality. Their poisoned brains prevent them from understanding basic human nature. The only side of human nature they understand is how people bend over for money. They're control freaks.

Keeping you in office means they have the ability to pressure you. Emotional manipulation through micro management or unreasonable expectations. They know that at home, they can't see you squirm. At work, you're not safe, but at home, you are.

I go to office when I don't have to be productive. The factor is round 10x. As ridiculous as it sounds, one single good day at home equals about two weeks of normal days at the office

Sadly idiot corpos think it makes them less money, so they don't care

My non-sciencey group of "experts in the obvious" said the same thing.

I feel like this is going to be highly variable depending on individual personalities, industries, and even specific employers. The largest employers do tend to be shittier, which probably does a lot of heavy lifting for this statistic.

How does that help employers?

Although a slight increase in alcohol consumption was noted at the outset, the overall trend is towards greater well-being.

😁

This is a very binary discussions. It is entirely possible that working from home when concentration is needed, and office for cohesion and alignment, is better for everyone.

I sure as shampoo have 5x the efficiency when not in the office. But i also get disconnected and work feels meaningless when not with a group of people.

No duh Sherlock

The lead scientist’s name must be Captain Obvi Ous, assisted by Pro. Casti Nator