The truth is it doesn't matter where you do your work. But your employers want to feel like they own you, and the super rich own all the offices and they need their rents. So that is why they hate work from home. - ThreadSky

bladeofthes.bsky.social • 37 days ago

The truth is it doesn't matter where you do your work.

But your employers want to feel like they own you, and the super rich own all the offices and they need their rents.

So that is why they hate work from home.

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victoriousyankee.bsky.social•36 days ago

It also helps the sexual harassment and groping of women if they are in the office.

coreycottrell.bsky.social•37 days ago

1000000% accurate

mactakeshi.bsky.social•37 days ago

I blame Tomorrows World from 1970. They said we'd be doing this, businesses sold have listened the first time.

jfang.bsky.social•37 days ago

Some (micro)managers suffer from presenteeism. They need you to be in the office under supervision.

You can be equally idle in the office as elsewhere.

chrisfk.bsky.social•37 days ago

In a large organisation, spread over many floors or over several separate buildings, it can be relatively easy to be on site somewhere, but to simultaneously be nowhere to be found. I have a colleague who's very good at this. She'll be in work but no one can locate her, sometimes all day.

yamrock71.bsky.social•36 days ago

I worked with a master of this…. His name, Gurpreet Singh, we called him GPS because no one could ever find him.

chrisfk.bsky.social•36 days ago

🤣🤣

jfang.bsky.social•37 days ago

I’ve known people like, quite a few chatterers as well who will claim it’s work related.

theincompleteorch.bsky.social•36 days ago

I manage a team of janitors. We used to have one guy that used to hide in a janitor's closet. Another beneath a set of staircases.

jfang.bsky.social•36 days ago

🤣

chrisfk.bsky.social•36 days ago

My wife has a colleague who would appear to be hard at work doing stuff on her laptop but was actually on Facebook the whole time - except when her manager was near enough to see her screen.

bimpson.bsky.social•36 days ago

The trick is to walk around the building all day carrying a file and looking worried. At least it was in my day - change file for open laptop

bawjaws.bsky.social•37 days ago

Don't forget the fuel.

cj-reed.bsky.social•36 days ago

My last boss (pre-Covid) was 4000 miles away, met up twice a year in person, weekly 121s, and calls as & when either needed - mutual trust, candour and respect.

bimpson.bsky.social•36 days ago

Employers have been cutting costs by cutting the office floor space they rent. It will be standing room only for many returning workers.

jameswest2024.bsky.social•37 days ago

It’s the commercial real estate lobby.

mcochrane13.bsky.social•37 days ago

And they probably also have investments in all the cafe chains that surround offices…so they want to justify the rent while also encouraging you to spend your money on expensive coffees and sandwiches…

lila7.bsky.social•36 days ago

There are a lot of jobs that can’t be done at home

theincompleteorch.bsky.social•36 days ago

I'm sure he realizes this. But a lot of the jobs that people were forced to go back to don't need to be done in an office.

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•36 days ago

True.

ornery-baggage.bsky.social•36 days ago

In fairness, they might just be control freaks that become paranoid that you are not working if they can’t physically see you doing it. Think of the anxiety a micromanager feels when they are forced to let you do your job - your way!

profsensible.bsky.social•37 days ago

I went to a local bank to open an account last week. They said I couldn’t bcs the face-to-face customer service staff that do this all work from home……

neilmurphy2610.bsky.social•37 days ago

You have a local bank?
Aren't you lucky.

profsensible.bsky.social•37 days ago

Local in a 20km radius sense…..

you-s.bsky.social•37 days ago

The fight against remote work isn’t just about productivity—it’s about control. Employers fear losing the power to surveil, and landlords fear losing their cash cows. When you work from home, it disrupts a system built to benefit the wealthy. So who really profits from your commute?

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