BoloSassyandMeJul 14, 2023
yakkoj 🦊

Working from home is an act of reclamation. I shed not one single tear for the end of the abuse that going to an office enables (paying for each day's travel, constant interruptions, terrible work environments designed by executives who don't feel the pain of these environments, etc.)

Rezone that office space as residential and do something about housing affordability.

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Jul 14, 2023 at 3:37pmWeb
Show threadkætJul 14, 2023

@yakkoj Peak is going to the office when everyone else is at home. No interruptions, work at the giant desk in the conference room, choose the comfiest chair, take a walk round the grounds in peace, have a nice long chat to the cleaner, 😄 .

(Hard agree with your post though!)

Show threadyakkoj 🦊Jul 14, 2023
@chiffchaff when I have to go in, this is exactly how I do it now. They still don't pay my travel, but I get that whole lousy-ass "open office" to myself!
Show threadSarah E BourneJul 14, 2023
@yakkoj Boston's Mayor has the same idea:
https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/110691466655756981
Universal Hub (@[email protected])

#Boston to try to convert empty #downtown offices into residences by slashing their property taxes for three decades #MichelleWu #BPDA https://www.universalhub.com/2023/boston-try-convert-empty-downtown-offices

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Show threadMichael GemarJul 14, 2023
@yakkoj I agree, although it is not necessarily straightforward to rework office spaces for residences.
Show threadAaronJul 14, 2023

@yakkoj Hopefully as we start converting to residential we do a better job than in this listing I saw on TikTok the other day:

https://www.tiktok.com/@zillowtastrophes/video/7254923258645073195?_r=1&_t=8dvzISIdME6

Zillowtastrophes on TikTok

Your literal home office. $520,000 1 bd 1 ba 1,066 sqft 777 Grand Ave SUITE 204, San Rafael, CA 94901 #homeoffice #workfromhome #remotework #sanraphael #theoffice #zillowtastrophe

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Show threadTransitBikerJul 15, 2023
@yakkoj post-pandemic? Not a thing. Pandemic was never declared over.
Show threadyakkoj 🦊Jul 15, 2023
@TransitBiker we're only "post-pandemic" because cruddy HR directors and stodgy head sheds declared it. They don't care about our health at all (that's why we're "human resources", like iron and tin are "natural resources": things to be consumed.)
Show threadTransitBikerJul 15, 2023
@yakkoj we are definitely not post-pandemic.
Show threadJennifer TohbiJul 15, 2023
@yakkoj 100% agree on all points! I commuted for a decade across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. And affordable housing is so critical - I would love to see this solution come about.
Show threadColorblind CowboyJul 15, 2023
@yakkoj OK, CNN, now do one on what high-rise office buildings have wiped out: views, light, elegant skylines, the beautiful buildings that once stood in their places.
Show threadmaiamaiaJul 17, 2023
@yakkoj because I have to go to work (a manager boyfriend once asked why I didn't work in the clothes shop from home. How does someone that thick get that far? But respect for managing it), people think I'm against it, but it makes my life simpler, I'm for it. If I wanted one thing, it'd be rural bus subsidies or free (not, another bill for the local council to pick up). It's five quid to go five minutes down the road, a narrow 60mph one without footpath or verge. Wales doesn't have $2 tickets
Show threadyakkoj 🦊Jul 17, 2023

@maiamaia hmm... I seem to have forgotten that some people's jobs require physical presence.

I completely agree that there should be readily-available, usable public transit. I really wish my taxes went toward improving this. Instead, I have to drive everywhere and need a car, and the sad state of public transit is easy to forget. (I live in the part of the USA that's not Boston, Chicago, or New York.)

Show threadmaiamaiaJul 17, 2023
@yakkoj it doesn't have to be brilliant, but I am convinced that if it was free, car use would halve. My belief is cos it's free for persioners here, & despite eg 3.5 hours on the bus vs. 1hr in the car, they still (before pandemic) flocked to the bus. Anyone who thinks price doesn't change anything has never sold stuff to the public. The mere words "sale" "offer" "reduction" let alone "free" set off a feeding frenzy as in a shoal of fish or a flock of birds.