Another Angry WomanMay 18, 2023

We are now three years into the shift from office working to hybrid/home-based and the only strategy commercial property developers have is paying for advertorials bleating about how everyone should work in offices rather than idk pivoting their model.

Capitalism is not a driver of innovation, or they'd have fucking innovated.

Show threadKate WatsonMay 18, 2023
@stavvers I mean imagine if they invested in making their commercial properties somewhere great, somewhere people really *wanted* to be, at least some of the time, for a change, even if it meant an annoying and expensive commute?
Show threadAilbheMay 18, 2023
@antinomy @stavvers Google offices used to do that -- playrooms and napping rooms and food and whathaveyou. It kind of worked.
Show threadKate Watson
@ailbhe @stavvers It seems amazing that almost no one who wants people to spend more time at the office by choice has tried making the office a nicer, easier, and more enjoyable place to work than home, by enough to offset the ball-ache cost and wasted time of commuting.
May 18, 2023 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadKate WatsonMay 18, 2023
@ailbhe @stavvers It shouldn't actually be difficult to make an environment custom-designed to be good to work in somewhere better than a random corner of our homes!
Show threadKate WatsonMay 18, 2023
@ailbhe @stavvers But no, everyone is supposed to be just delighted with the idea of going back to buildings with nylon tiles on the floor, polystyrene ones on the ceiling, nasty *nasty* lighting and no escape from Stacey who has no inside voice apparently.
Show threadAuntie MameMay 18, 2023
@antinomy @ailbhe @stavvers Give me a private office, with a door, where I can control the lights, volume, and temp, and maybe I’ll show up at the office. But nope, no innovation or changes while the CEOs work from Martha’s Vineyard.