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0 pointsjbhouse4y ago0 comments

"the cons are mostly your employers"

I'm not sure I would even agree with this. I have a better monitor setup at home, a quieter place to work and think, and I'm spending less of my day in pointless conversations for the sake of politeness.

My employer simply gets more out of me when I work from home AND turnover is reduced.

I think the pros outweigh the cons for employers, even if they don't care at all about their employees and even if we weren't in a tight labor market

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ashtonkem4y ago

You're measuring the cons in terms of labor productivity, which I am no longer convinced is what is driving executive behavior.

Frankly, I think that executives get a big ego boost seeing hundreds of workers working in an office of their design, and they miss that. I think that's why their arguments for returning to the office come across as ... strange and unpersuasive; they don't actually have a productivity based argument for returning to the office and they're trying to shoe horn one in anyways.

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