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I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
How does the working environment of the white-collar employees affect the working environment of the blue-collar employees in this case?
I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
Is this meant to be an argument against remote work? If so, it's a strange one. Some working conditions are better than others. Some jobs are better than others. Some jobs pay more than others, often a lot more. Should everyone who makes more money than manufacturing workers take a pay cut? Alternatively, should everyone who makes less money than manufacturing workers get a pay raise? Inequality is a fact of capitali…
The more interesting follow up questions are to what degree is this true, how do we know, and do we think this is a factor in back-to-office mandates.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this meant to be an argument against remote work? If so, it's a strange one. Some working conditions are better than others. Some jobs are better than others. Some jobs pay more than others, often a lot more. Should everyone who makes more money than manufacturing workers take a pay cut? Alternatively, should everyone who makes less money than manufacturing workers get a pay raise? Inequality is a fact of capitali…
It’s not an argument, it’s just a positive claim. You’ve projected a bunch of normative angles on to it, but there are none. The more interesting follow up questions are to what degree is this true, how do we know, and do we think this is a factor in back-to-office mandates.
You've projected an interpretation onto bluedino's words. I'd like to hear the OP explain why this alleged resentment was mentioned here.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know, right? I thought COVID proved definitively that remote work is not just possible but equal to in-office work. I really want to understand the counterarguments, but all I see is oblique assertions like "true creativity requires body language." I'm keeping an open mind, and I acknowledge that in-person chat features much higher comm bandwidth than video chat, but I'd like to see a well-reasoned explanation of w…
I've been working from home since March of 2020. I mostly like it, but I would be willing to go in to an office for team meetings now and then. After almost three years, I have definitely come to see and desire some in-person interactions. But for CEOs to just demand that people be in the office for some arbitrary number of days per week on a vague assertion stinks. It also assumes that everyone's personality and wor…
Small wonder workers don’t want to return to the office when they’re treated like chickens in an industrial henhouse there.
I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
Is this meant to be an argument against remote work? If so, it's a strange one. Some working conditions are better than others. Some jobs are better than others. Some jobs pay more than others, often a lot more. Should everyone who makes more money than manufacturing workers take a pay cut? Alternatively, should everyone who makes less money than manufacturing workers get a pay raise? Inequality is a fact of capitali…
If I’ve got to work a dozen or more weekends a year, and 50 nights a year when I can only deploy during non business hours (until 9pm), then by god I don’t need to suffer a commute in an expensive city to sit through my coworkers sharing YouTube videos and dad jokes nonstop.
I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
Reminded me of this quote from Office Space.
“Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?”
I mean, employers are free to make whatever policies they want and employees are free to stay or leave. I think things have their own way of normalizing.
Soon: CEOs at Disney and Starbucks struggle with understaffing, inability to attract workers