Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats::undefined

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    Your company CEOs golf buddies from the real estate business are complaining that they are losing money because rental office space value is dropping. It’s the only reason.

    That’s a cynical view thinking that’s the only reason. /s

    Another reason may be that the company received generous tax breaks from the municipality or state to have workers working in a specific place, and now all those workers are spread out to different cities, counties, or even states, the tax man is getting angry and threatening to take the company pay up. So bosses are forcing workers back into office even though it is more costly to workers and makes them less productive.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
      2•1 year ago

      Still, they’re not passing on their savings / profits / ill gotten gains to the workers they’re trying to force to commute.

      And they’ve shown they’d totally fuck the workers over if cheap (defective) robots were available tomorrow, as per their gladness to replace workers with generative AI while the tech is still sloppy.

      So, they’ve established the worker‐capitalist relationship as antagonistic and strictly transactional.