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Know thine enemy.
This is a bogus reason.
They want the people they are “in charge of” physically present together, in a place they control.
Some companies are doing very well with most folks working from home, to the point they have sold their downtown real estate offices and buildings. And it was a smart move for them as many did it before the market dived.
I suspect the biggest reason many companies hate employees working from home is that the employees are detached from the corporate culture and find it very easy to change jobs quickly.
Elon Musk handled the “ work from home” issue perfectly. He said “I don’t care if they work from home, they aren’t going to do it for me”.
Because “work from home” shows Executive Management and ownership how very little value there is in most middle management positions. They need their peons in house to create the illusion their positions are “value add”
They do not. They see working from home as a great way to game the work system. Mouse wiggler keeps your computer from going to sleep and you can play keystrokes through a keyboard port to make it look like you are typing. Then you can go to your other computer and watch porn. You can call people on your cell phone while you are at the store or maybe the golf course. You can have a three martini lunch and nobody can smell it on your breath. Hell, you could pretend to work at 2 or 3 different jobs and all you would have to do is produce something meaningful every once in a while.
Aki Ito? Isn’t that an Elvis song from “Girls, Girls, Girls”.
These guys know that, in general, you do not do as much when you are working from home as you do in the office.
There are some people who are the exceptions. But they are just that, exceptions. Certain jobs can be done from home, on-line customer service for example. The calls are fed to you and you have to put your station on hold for a potty break. That time is measured as is how much time you spend on calls. So the company has a metric to measure your work and so do you.
But for a lot of jobs this kind of metric does not exist.
They can see how long you are on the company website but are you actually working?
Pure feminazi trash but if it bolsters WFH I’ll take it. I never want to return to the office. So far I’ve been able to work from home for 3 years. I love it.
I won’t go back to the office. Wasting 2 hours a day to commute is simply not worth it.
Load of crap.
I’ve heard a pretty wide range of leaders on remote and on site work and nobody even infers anything like this. Classic leftist projection at work.
No workee-from-office here ever again. Especially since I moved as far away from America’s sh&thole cities as I could. My skyline now consists of grain silos.
Work from home = you work from your house
Remote Work = you work away from the office
We’ve been kicking around the idea of renting some space in town to create a remote office for some of us home workers. That way, I’m not at home where my wife gets tired of me being home but not available. Plus there is all the noise associated with it. I miss the office environment. I could go back into the office but no one is there and it is 35 minutes away.