The level of GET BACK TO THE OFFICE desperation in the right-wing press is hilarious, and you won't be surprised to hear that this one is content marketing by an office furniture firm
@mattround I’ll be long dead by 2100. Why do they think I care what I will look like???
@mattround is this Johnson’s article for Saturday?
@mattround they've run this before even, in 2019, about office workers in general
@mattround Is this from the same artist as the one who made the "Future Gamer," which pretended as if a generally unhealthy lifestyle is exclusive to just gamers?

@mattround A counterpart article "What will manual workers look like by 2100" that includes pictures of three people:

1) A 90 year old person with an exoskeleton
2) A young, healthy adult person killed by an accident caused by lax building/workspace regulations
3) Amazon warehouse worker

@mattround Also given it's office furniture company PR, it reminds me of the ergonomic elementary school chairs in the Simpsons that made everyone's backs hurt and paralyzed Milhouse and Ms. Krabappel said the expected result is "kids with straight backs by the year 3000"
@mattround Given remote workers who are 30 today will be over 100 by 2100, I'd be surprised if they look that good...
@mattround okay of course these are full of shit but if it’s literally a company that makes office furniture then i cannot help but to respect the hustle

@mattround @Lazarou @cstross It's also more than a bit shitty to the millions of people who were doing #RemoteWork for decades before Covid, and those people were indeed usually #women and are often #disabled

Managers of remote working teams (the good ones anyway!) are very aware of the well-being of their staff, far more aware than random Covid WFH managers anyway, so this supposed #research is, to use a #technical #psychological term, complete bollocks.

#Prejudice #Discrimination #DailyMail

@Lorry @mattround @cstross I understand the 'research' comes from an Office Furniture company, the Daily Mail's stunning journalism coming to play once again.
@mattround I'll be lucky to look that good in 2100.
@mattround Since going fully remote, I have exercised and spent more time outside than ever before.
@mattround this is just an old lady what do they mean ???
@mattround On the other hand, this is how you'll look if you continue to commute by car:
@mattround I'll file this under “Propaganda meant to incite prejudice against digital natives for upholding their cultural values that prioritize remote work over commutes.”
@mattround I saw her yesterday in the Dollar General
@mattround @drahardja I think I’ll take it because the #DailyMail is also telling me that if I go into the office I’ll look like “Emma”, and in less than 20 years!
@del @mattround @drahardja Whether people are working at home or in the office, it's the women who end up deformed?

@Abandofan @mattround @drahardja Seems about right for the #DailyMail. Their website includes the wildly popular Femail section.

These office worker articles appear in the main site but I can imagine they’re targeted at women through the Femail pages and related content suggestions etc.

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Looks like I'm suing DailyMail for publishing my picture without my consent.
What do they call lawyers in the U.K.? Barristers?

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Makes sense if that's supposed to be a picture from 2100 of someone in their twenties today who hasn't been killed in a collision while commuting.
@mattround its the daily fail, what do you expect?
@mattround It got reported this week that commercial real estate space in New York has been devalued by as much as half. If you want to know why this "Return to the Office" bullshit is coming from all sides.
@mattround it is all about the money. The office ecosystem includes office rentals, coffee shops, office supplies, office furniture, parking and other things. Just think of the investors.
@mattround And they did basically the same story about in-office workers not that long ago.
@craiggrannell Yeah it's a well-worn format for content marketing, “this is what humans will look like if…”
@mattround Do they think people which look like this don't exist now...?
@mattround I don't understand how this is even supposed to make sense. How is sitting at a desk at home different than sitting at a desk at an office? And I tend to only sit for shorter stretches at home anyway.
@mattround When 2100 you reach, look this good you will not
@mattround gosh I might come from the future, impressive.
@mattround Is it the same people as this? It has to be.
@mattround a truly shocking take from the Daily Heil
@mattround damn, I'll be lookin' pretty damn good for 117 years old
@mattround It's funny because I feel my physical health improved from WFH imo.
@mattround joke's on them, I already look like that.
@mattround This is the best argument for reducing working hours. 👍
@mattround They really went for it with the camel toe on this gal, sakes alive.
@mattround bitch i will be so fucking hot as a remote worker. i'd have both the money and the spatial availability for at least one dance game cab

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I think I saw this woman working the checkout line at Walmart recently...

@mattround To be fair, if I'm still working at nine o'clock at night at home or in the office I end up looking like that.
@mattround Either way you, stare at a computer screen, type on a keyboard, and are sedentary for most of the day. If this is truly what office workers will look like by 2100, it doesn’t matter if you’re working from home or in the office
@mattround A lot of us will look way more skeletal or even ashen by 2100. Nothing to do with working from home. 😬
@mattround finny thing is that I looked more like this when I did work in an office than now.
@mattround but you’ll have a nice head of hair ….

@mattround Already got my home office furniture.

Spookily, not had backache from horrible train coachwork designed for pygmies from the 70s since pandemic remote working started.

Hey bossman, you going to get me one of these for the office? No?

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They hate that some workers have a little more freedom, even if it means increased productivity.

@mattround Because clearly people working from home work harder, and thus are more stuck in a "computer posture" right?
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Jokes on them, I already look like this.
@mattround I know some people who look like that already and they for sure never remote worked
@mattround I feel like so much of the right wing press is just looking at something that is popular and automatically taking the contrarian position of it