Wonder if the war will push companies back to WFH to keep gas pricing and supplies in check. Hard make it to work if gas station is out of gas or there's a one hour wait.
WFH is becoming a benefit again
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#2Those pushing return to office have drank so much of the Kool-Aid that compliance with policy is worth any cost. You must keep collaborating and allegedly being productive in person.
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#3The high performers are usually the first to leave under tighter RTO conditions
https://www.business.pitt.edu/return-to-office-mandates-dont...
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#4I was discussing this with a friend last night. If fuel prices get high enough I can see it happening.
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#5Those pushing return to office have drank so much of the Kool-Aid that compliance with policy is worth any cost. You must keep collaborating and allegedly being productive in person.
It is usually the creeps that rush for it. They want the taste of power (forcing you to be in certain place and causing inconvenience) to sniff your perfumes when talk to you up close and clock your bum.
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#6Those pushing return to office have drank so much of the Kool-Aid that compliance with policy is worth any cost. You must keep collaborating and allegedly being productive in person.
It's managers who want to feel in control of their peons reinforced by massive investment in corporate real estate and businesses surrounding them.
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#7I was discussing this with a friend last night. If fuel prices get high enough I can see it happening.
Articles about parts of Asia starting WFH to conserve fuel are already cropping up [1]. I'm seeing live trackers of the Hormunz pop up too [2].
I'm getting some serious deja-vu.
[1] https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/iran-war-fuel-crisis-asia-wor...
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-oil-crisis-fuel-rationing...
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#8Those pushing return to office have drank so much of the Kool-Aid that compliance with policy is worth any cost. You must keep collaborating and allegedly being productive in person.
Management & their HR henchmen, sorry, henchpersons: "But think of all the in-person collaboration that gets missed without the in-office presence!"
The actual in-person collaboration in the office: 50-100 person open space office with everyone wearing noise canceling headphones all the time to drown out everyone else talking in zoom/teams calls, not talking to anyone in person, reading reddit and watching youtube on the second monitor while waiting to clock out for the day.
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#9I've been working fully remote for like 5 years at this point and I have to say I do get an itch to go into the office.
My pipe dream for the future of work is it's remote by default with in-office being a decision that's made at a team level. Ideally there would be no hard requirement to come to the office X days per week, it would be a team coming together and saying "hey, how about we all go into the office on Tuesday to collaborate on this thing" (this assumes buy in from the entire team).
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#10I don't know about you guys, but RTTO was the biggest signal to me that corp america is lost and beyond recovery.
The benefits are so obvious, yet here we are.