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  • Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom President-elect Donald Trump appointed to lead a new government efficiency team, said they intend to call federal employees back to the office five days a week.
  • Companies such as Amazon and The Washington Post are adopting a similar policy in 2025.
  • But many companies will keep remote or hybrid work arrangements, largely because they boost profits, economists said.
  • Some view return-to-office mandates as a stealthy way to reduce employee head count.
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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ok, let's say it is a covid-era privilege. Why does that mean it has to go away? Why can't it be a modern day innovation? Isn't it a curb on vehicle emissions? More spending money in people's wallets if they're not paying for gas or coffee or meals on the go due to commuting? What's the fuckin downside?? We stumbled upon a good thing

Oh fuck, I forgot the real estate prices. My bad. Yea let's cancel this whole thing

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 48 points 6 days ago (5 children)

You forgot, it saves people 30 mins - 2 hours every day. What are they going to do with that time? Enjoy themselves? Advocate for their own interests?

No, clearly this cannot stand

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 18 points 6 days ago

Isn’t it a curb on vehicle emissions?

Welllll, Elon owns a large share of a company that makes vehicles. So the more people drive, the better for him.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

It’s also incredibly fucked up that they’re worried about real estate prices falling in an economy where so many are having a problem paying rent or owning a house.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago
[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's entire existence is a privilege.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

They thank us by directly using their endless wealth to fuck us out of our last bit of political/economic power

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can Musk please, please, please, just fucking die already? Preferably burnt to death while trapped in a cybertruck. He's just so stupid and has too much power, and I'm tired of people treating him like he's worth more than utter contempt.

Ramaswamy can go, too. Conspiracy theory peddling sycophant.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Covid - the best times of our lives

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If COVID was the best, just wait till bird flu gets here.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They probably won’t lock down again. It will be full steam ahead for the economy. Keep throwing bodies into the burner.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 6 days ago

All hail the Economy. We must sacrifice the plebs to make sure the Economy continues to award those at the top.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

I’ve been working remotely long before the pandemic and I will continue to do so - I’m far from being alone in that. Also, we are still in the “covid-era”, we just collectively decided to pretend we aren’t.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

HE'S WORKING FROM FUCKING MARALAGO FUCK YOU

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Rip Disabled people I guess.

And this is coming from the same peoppe saying “just get a job”.

You gotta provide accomodations my guy.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The company I work for is pushing almost all of IT to WFH so they can get rid of all the office space they're renting. It actually kind of sucks for me because I don't like working from home.

[–] greenkarmic@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Give it a some time. I didn't like it the first 3 months. Now I'd never go back.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 6 days ago

You mean the "privilege" of working from home so tech CEOs could make billions of dollars?

Obviously billions of dollars is just the result of hard work and not a privilege at all.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

First remote job I had was in 2010 making barely more than minimum wage for tier 1 phone support. These guys are off their rockers.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What i don't get in all of this: There are already companies that did go out of business because too many people just left, due to them not being able to do WFH. Personally, I do like going to the office 1-2 times a week, but even I would leave the company if the got rid of WFH completely. There's near full employment everywhere, especially tech companies already have to go the extra mile to get people to work for them. Why would anyone stay at a company that does not do WFH, if that's one thing they got to enjoy?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

This is why they're also fighting for those visas. They want to hire people but don't want to pay US wages. And when your residency depends on your employment, you're going to be much less likely to call out bullshit or whatever

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 6 days ago

These large tech companies are relying upon their brand to keep talent. Amazon and the rest all believe people will put up with shit to have their company listed on someone’s CV.

Or it’s all about quiet layoffs.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago

It's in my union contract. Your move, hair plugs.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm "racist" against billionaires and not even pretending not to be. There's like no more than a small handful who do much (relative % I mean) good for anybody. Those should be noted and tasted normally (if they weren't while on the way up), but they should be taxed out of existence. Il

I don't know what the number should be, but it shouldn't be possible for your net worth to even approach a billion.

Probably smaller than $50M. Shouldn't be possible to surpass that much. Even that amount should be heavily forced into charity.

If you're in that upper echelon, I automatically hate you before I've heard of you, and I'm fairly confident the amount of times I'm wrong would be extremely small.

Super rich people have to prove they're worth not hating. Their default position is "hated idiot" until proven otherwise.

There's just so little possibility I wouldn't want them dead in a vacuum (devoid of other moral considerations).

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm "racist" against billionaires

Does that make you classist?

Either way, all good. It ain't racist if the fact they're all white guys or Clearence Thomas is accidental or their own nepo action.

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[–] Norgoroth@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Musk and ramoswamy are foreign invader trash and they should go back to exploiting their own shitty countries. Fucking scum. Deport these counts or throw them in a detention center with no toilet. MAGA

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Still trying to look as cool as possible, and it doesn't work when they do it, so they try harder, which makes it even worse. Dweebs.

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