PowderhornDell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
PerogiBoiExactly how my office is doing things. All of us are tracked by our phones to ensure commutes and then by IP address pulled from Entra ID and company-wide VPN. They cross reference it with our seat booking system.
We were 100% remote for all employees since March 2019. Managers now encourage us to go out and buy food at the restaurants nearby (some even “jokingly” ask for receipts which some people keep).
It’s more important to hold up the economy than lower emissions and improve morale, employee happiness, and productivity.
AbsoluteAggressorI feel like helping local economy is the only valid reason against work from home.
But, you know. Not like better city planning wouldn’t help this.
beengYou should have a local economy where you live…
My city of 3000 people certainly appreciates us buying locally. Some other city that’s 100x the size? They’re gonna be fine. Is the real estate price really so important business would rather make us buy goods from nearby places?
Companies have heavy commercial real estate bags. They are justifying their investments by forcing RTO
I genuinely refuse to believe it is more profitable for them to pay for AC, water and electricity that RTO would hike. There has to be something else I am missing.
It’s like buying a very expensive pool, even though it costs money to run and service, you already bought it and will invite people to come and swim in it to justify the purchase, even though it’s a giant money sink.
You can’t just give it back that’s also wasting money, so what are you going to do?
Banzai51Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.