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I would like to believe this. And I even worked at a small (~25 people) company where this did happen. I just don't think this will be the case for massive companies.
This reads like an onion headline.
How long till 4 day work week?
It's almost like people don't want to be slaves of sociopaths to enrich themselves at the expense of all else.
Who could have known?
This will probably happen as the sunk cost fallacy of existing office space goes away. They have these big office spaces leased out and they're contractually stuck with that cost. Those leases will expire over the next few years, and a lot of them will decide they don't need them anymore. Until then, they're paying for something that isn't getting use, and there's mental pressure to force the issue.
This will coincide with a collapse of the office rental market. The places heavily invested in that market see it coming, are dreading it, and are driving headlines saying how much better office work is.
I like working in an office
I do to, I don't like commuting.
The laziest employees prefer the office, since they can just sit and do nothing, but get credit since they sat in their cubicle all day.
Getting measured based on your productivity terrifies lazy employees (some of whom are executives).
I manage a team of 20 employees, in a hybrid environment. I only have to 'monitor' the employees in the office, because they tend to 'disappear', miss deadlines, be late for meetings. Not all of them, but none of my remote workers have these issues.
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Corporations are known to only care about money, but these days a lot of them are fine with losing money just to prove a stupid point of some kind.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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