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The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
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#12If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
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#13If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
Why are there so many highly paid remote tech workers then?
Re: The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
#14Hopefully we actually jail some bankers in the coming corporate-real-estate-triggered global financial crisis.
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#15This article makes no sense.
I mean I'm all for a little elite run the world consipiracy theory but really, I'm supposed to think that a diffuse group of corporate leaders are upending companies so they can spend more on real estate going forward, for class solidarity reasons?
The reason people running companies want to end or curtail remote work is because it's very fucking challenging to run a group of people remotely. It just is. Everyone knows it, it's fucking hard.
There are also a lot of reasons TO do it. It's possible remote is the "better" option on the whole as a comprehensive decision.
But it takes a lot of skilled work to communicate effectively as a manager, it's hard, and if you get it wrong things start to spiral.
It's not confusing AT ALL why people might consider it. Pretty sure everyone who leads a group of people has had at least ONE moment of "god dammit it would be a lot easier if we were just all in the same room" in the recent past.
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#16If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
No, not necessarily. And also, many office jobs can be done remote. Even if the policy is that you must come in to the office, that doesn't change the fact that it's possible to do it remote.
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#17I don’t really buy the argument. If commercial RE crashes, that means what, people take a 20% haircut on converting the buildings to condos and/or just selling for the value of the land? We are still seeing unprecedented housing shortages, which puts a pretty high floor on how much l “downtown” land values will crash.
> people take a 20% haircut on converting the buildings to condos and/or just selling for the value of the land?
Leverage and derivatives completely turn this assumption on its head.
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#18I’ve been called back to the office a few days a week now. It took 4 trips back to realize the things I dealt guilty about while working remote were non issues.
Saw 4 managers literally walking by their employees desks watching them work. To add insult to injury, there were 4 managers for 12 employees doing this.
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#19If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
Time zones and shared language/culture disagree? Or if you think you can get a 90% margin on the competition with the same result, go start a company and see how that works out for you.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unions.
It’s always been the same answer for hundreds of years. Unions and solidarity.
But don’t you know? We are exceptional. Unions are for the plebs. /s
But of course the reality is tech workers are the plebs too, far closer to the median than to capital elite. Treasured illusions die hard.
Unions enjoy 71% public support and organizing is federally protected activity. The minority isn’t stopping anyone, they can be safely ignored.
(My note: I recognize I will never be obscenely wealthy; it does not appeal to me. The wealthy just try to buy back their soul with charity after leaving a wake of destruction on their journey. I would rather work for autonomy and quality of life for my peers, which if done properly, will lead to a better life for myself)