Dr. Lucky Tran Jul 3, 2023
The rich don't care about your physical and mental health. The reason they are pushing a coordinated media campaign against remote work is because the only thing they really care about is all the money they are losing from empty offices.
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@luckytran The university where I work owns $160 million of *taxable* real estate - the buildings they rent out as shops and restaurants etc. (As of 2022)
Coincidentally, the baseline expectation is at least 3 days/week in person, so that "our interactions and presence strengthen bonds of empathy and increase our shared understanding of each other's diverse perspectives and experiences."
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I can think of a lot of ways to "strengthen bonds of empathy," but making people who are at high risk, or who have household members at high risk, work on site, in a shared office, with colleagues who weren't wearing masks, when you recognized that "many staff are highly productive and effective in remote mode" - that is not one of them. So one casts around for explanations other than the one stated....
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Show threadKate Nyhan is changing serversJul 4, 2023
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For the record, I believe that leaders in my department honestly believe that empathy/shared understanding/collaboration are better with in-person work.