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This title seems a little click-baity, but the content within does add good perspective about what employees have known all along

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was never really about productivity

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago

Yep. It's about commercial real estate, and justifying the existence of middle management.

[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Don't forget extreme micromanagement

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Which always leads to better metrics/KPIs right lean leaders? Right?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

And demand for oil.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

It was partly about finding an easy reason to let people go / coerce people to leave.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

All that money they invested in corporate real estate is probably a driving factor too., but IMO it's probably mostly about their own perceived power of people: Micromanaging the shit out of people is just easier and more gratifying to them in person.

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