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Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] selfcleaningtaint@lemmy.sdf.org 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm lucky my role is remote and even though it's not required I spend a day fortnight in my office as we still have staff who have to be on site.

Head of our company is pushing to get rid of our offices in Australian capital cities as they were just for administrative roles and client meetings.

The staff who have roles that need to be on site have been given extra training to be able to do other roles with remote options.

Maybe we are fortunate to not care about work/city culture here and making work more difficult to keep cities "bustling" seems like a real cunt of a move aimed at the worker.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I highly doubt the push is due to anything but the profitability of commercial real-estate, hospitality, probably councils etc, and a range of other businesses that benefit from millions of daily customers coming to their locales — all the businesses built around a high level of centralization, and refuse to adapt to the changing world.

Micromanagement and extroverts who love the social routine are the minority being used to distract us from the scared capital.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Same. The only reason I took the role I’m in is for fully remote. If that’s gone I’m out. That being said I still go in once in a while just to get out of the house. I’ll try and go in more in the summer to save on turning on the aircon at home. If companies are reasonable so will employees.