nerdseyeviewit's a good day to think about whose voices we hear in the "back to the office' power grab. it's a good day to think about what 'back to the office' costs workers in time, child care, commuting, clothing, and about a million other things. back to the office is a pay cut, you'll never convince me otherwise.
Stacy@nerdseyeview It definitely is. It's a mystery to me. Businesses are all about productivity. So many people are MORE productive when working from home, yet businesses stick to an outdated model. Makes zero sense.
travis ballstadt@dancinyogi @nerdseyeview business is all about productivity. Management is too often about control.
Veirling | #MMIWG #LandBack@dancinyogi @nerdseyeview Owners invest in commercial real-estate, especially multi-millionaires and billionaires. Also, it turns out you can pay people to write editorials in the NYT and WaPo talking about the need to go back to the office! 🙃
Alice Marshall@dancinyogi @nerdseyeview being a boss, especially a corporate boss is mostly about control. How can you control people who are working from home? If the work is getting done, you should not care, but bosses do care. It is more about power than profit.
Mike T.@nerdseyeview The #backToTheOffice costs seldom interest an employer. I felt it was a #matterOfTrust.
"If you work at home, how will I know you’re working?"
It’s not my problem you don’t have a #metric to measure my productivity. How do you know I'm working when I’m sitting in my cubicle?
TBH, that conversation did not go well for me. Sure, I had a point, but pretty soon I didn’t have a #job.
spherulitic@nerdseyeview any article about working conditions that doesn’t include input from a worker or a union rep isn’t news; it’s one-sided propaganda
beforewisdom 
The articles I've read state that the cause of the "back to office movement" is that many organizations own office buildings and do not want the real estate value of those buildings to fall.
@beforewisdom file under "keeping your real estate values up is not part of my job."
Malfunction54@nerdseyeview 100% agree
Kevin Karhan 
@nerdseyeview *nodds in agreement*
Commuting is unpaid labour / overtime and every job that can be done remotely should not only encourage it but be mandated to be offered that way...
sabik@nerdseyeview @luciedigitalni
"Back to the office" is also removing a control for a workplace hazard, and there are laws about removing controls for workplace hazards
I haven't heard of any company actually following those laws
Tim Richards@nerdseyeview @davidtoddmccarty well said. If the employers had to pay for commuting time, they'd suddenly be very enthusiastic about work from home. :)
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@nerdseyeview AND IT UNNECESSARILY BURNS CARBON!!
Nicole ParsonsRemote work, by some estimates, is the equivalent of an over 10% pay raise. It is also a cost saving to corporations.
It has a host of knock off effects too.
By moving away from major cities, corporations saw their labor demands decline as workers found less expensive homes.
Reminder: Remote work is a cost saving to both workers & corporations.
Why would a corporation fight to keep expensive downtown real estate leases?
Wall Street
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-investing-commercial-real-estate-valuations/
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@nerdseyeview I don't care about any of that. What I do care about is that it's too dangerous - my employer doesn't guarantee a zero covid office.
(The commuting would be 20 miles cycling per week. And as that was pretty much the only exercise I got I now do at least that much cycling at other times, so I'm not saving commute time.)
@TimWardCam also a fair critique.
Delta Sierra@nerdseyeview in-office work is 100% a means of penalizing workers, yet somehow there's a prevalent assumption that travel time, car insurance, fuel, and *a risk of death* (among others) are burdens an employee should bear for the "opportunity" to be employed.
Plus, health benefits. When I switched to full remote, my blood pressure dropped substantially (was about to start meds) and I was used the 2 extra hours a day to engage with my hobbies more. Mine's not an isolated experience, I'd wager.
SusanBee 
@nerdseyeview now with added Covid exposure too! WFH forever.