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>I have to rant about the home office situation in general, but also specifically at my place of employment and similar places. I cannot stand the fake positivity and cute-sounding arguments for returning to the office. It falls flat for so many and it’s trying to make it sound more legitimate by evoking this image of collaboration, being social, kindness, having a good time together when that’s not the point. The point is micromanagement and needing to justify the large office spaces they invested into. Very rarely are there positions or departments who truly need to collab in person, and then they can just do that for the occasion, not a fixed amount of days per week or month where they need to go in at all times.

Archive: https://archive.today/55Bqw From the post: >>I have to rant about the home office situation in general, but also specifically at my place of employment and similar places. I cannot stand the fake positivity and cute-sounding arguments for returning to the office. It falls flat for so many and it’s trying to make it sound more legitimate by evoking this image of collaboration, being social, kindness, having a good time together when that’s not the point. The point is micromanagement and needing to justify the large office spaces they invested into. Very rarely are there positions or departments who truly need to collab in person, and then they can just do that for the occasion, not a fixed amount of days per week or month where they need to go in at all times.

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[–] • 2 pts

The work I do has never required me to be on-site unless it was to physically move/modify/interact with hardware which I no longer do because the nearest datacenter with gear in it is hundreds of miles away and is managed by an entirely different group.

My coworkers are in every TZ in the US and some out of the US. There is no reasonable way to even try to "go to a office" and the company shut down all but maybe 2 physical locations. Productivity is up, company earnings are up, bonuses are up, a huge amount of the "admin overhead" has been let go and restructured.. etc.

You can hold on to your "old" ideas but it just does not make sense for the majority of "modern work".

[–] • 1 pt

I get that. I understand not all jobs require an actual office and presence on site. Many jobs aren't in the computer/artificial intelligence sector.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, I just was pointing at the example. If you can do a job in a cubical you probably don't need to go to a office to do it.

[–] • 1 pt

I understand that, I mispoke and made a generalization as so many young people post videos complaining about working, often wearing their walmart smock.