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0 pointsWorkaccount22y ago0 comments

The alternative to REIT consipiracy is that execs have run the numbers and loss from remote work is greater than the loss from office work. Painful.

Headlines don't support this, articles only get clicks when celebrating remote work. But there is a very clear disconnect where headlines are saying "remote work is more productive" and executive surverys are saying "we are moving back to offices".

Execs (on the whole, not anecdotes) don't hate money and productivity. If remote work was so much better, they would be rushing to it at breakneck speed. Instead the opposite is happening.

HN Note: Only a small fraction of workers are developers or work in IT. The white collar workforce is huge an varied. The remote vs. RTO debate is about workers on the whole, not just the small sliver that are devs.

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bitcharmer2y ago

I have to disagree. History has shown over and over again that MBAs don't need to be intelligent or understand the business to get to highly paid and powerful roles. Similarly, you can be an idiot and still succeed in becoming the president of US.

RTO is dictated by those people because without the headcount in the office it's plain and obvious that most of their "work" is illusory and provides no value beyond giving them means to build their kingdoms. RTO is mostly about self important and self-preservation of this whole class.

cjrp2y ago

Execs have signed long leases on office space and need to be seen to be using it.

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bitcharmer2y ago

cjrp2y ago

Execs have signed long leases on office space and need to be seen to be using it.

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