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The only perk I want is remote work. I willingly take a lower pay to work remotely. I think it's a fairly fair compromise.

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>Employees in corporate America are being tasked with more work with fewer perks as companies adjust to economic uncertainties. The April jobs market report showed that while companies were wary of layoffs, white collar employers are slowing down hiring. Employers added 177,000 jobs in April, predominantly in hospitals, restaurants and warehouses. However, opportunities in government and other white collar jobs decreased or saw no change. Donald Trump extended the federal hiring freeze through mid-July, and CEOs appear to be bracing for impact from his trade war. With fewer opportunities for white collar workers, bosses have cracked down on employees, revoking many of their pandemic-era perks and demanding more from them, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The only perk I want is remote work. I willingly take a lower pay to work remotely. I think it's a fairly fair compromise. Archive: https://archive.today/tUryb From the post: >>Employees in corporate America are being tasked with more work with fewer perks as companies adjust to economic uncertainties. The April jobs market report showed that while companies were wary of layoffs, white collar employers are slowing down hiring. Employers added 177,000 jobs in April, predominantly in hospitals, restaurants and warehouses. However, opportunities in government and other white collar jobs decreased or saw no change. Donald Trump extended the federal hiring freeze through mid-July, and CEOs appear to be bracing for impact from his trade war. With fewer opportunities for white collar workers, bosses have cracked down on employees, revoking many of their pandemic-era perks and demanding more from them, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Aside from feeding their narcissism, companies are using return to office mandates to force people to quit as they are making cut backs now. Once they have shed all the staff they can they might start looking at shedding office space to save more money.

…then again, that would be intelligent. If business people were intelligent they would have switched to remote work years before the pandemic.

New companies might start up with no office and beat the incumbents with cost savings. Exa Realty started during the 2008 financial / real estate crisis. Instead of renting offices and conference rooms in every city (they do a lot of training seminars) they paid for a custom online virtual campus. I read that they are now the largest real estate company in the world by staff size.

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Some companies like GitLab started remote-only from the beginning. I think middle management hates remote work because it shows how little they are actually needed and also exposes employees that spend half (or more) of their time walking around "socializing" in the office.

I have posted about this before. When I was in the office 5 days a week I could get around 2ish hours of work done a day since people kept coming into my office to talk to me about shit I didn't care about and usually was not work related. When WFH started, no one could do that any more. I could get a weeks worth of work in a day or two.

This whole "face to face collaboration is key" is complete bullshit. Maybe it works in some industries or offices but "brilliant ideas" often come from letting your best people do their job and keeping the idiots from bothering them. Now "random hallway meetings" that are just forced socialization and a waste of time.