note that the smaller estimates almost all are doing things like assuming people are eating lots of meat daily, driving large personal cars and have giant American size homes, and that we don't make any efforts to improve technological efficiency at all.
i.e. the smaller estimates are based on assuming that people will act like people actually act
When you don't bother to learn any skills other than "management by walking around" while the geeks you sneer at learn skills essential to producing valuable goods and services, yes, you're just gonna have to suck it up and take it when they get demanding.
"Woke" is the word used by people who wish they had the nerve to just say "Uppity".
the CEO getting a new leer
Good point; habitual sexual harassers are in favor of RTO for obvious reasons.
This. I keep hearing airy pronoucements about the importance of "corporate culture" and "collaboration" and whatnot, but in reality the conversations I heard back in the days when I commuted to the office consisted almost entirely of 1)gossip that would make a high school mean-girl clique look like Plato's Symposium, 2)placing and settling of sports pool bets, and 3)random content-free small talk.
I have to pay the same mortgage whether I'm at home 24 hours a day or only 14, so I clearly can't afford to go in to the office.
One of the drivers of the Canutian push to turn back the clock on WFH is the sunk-cost fallacy of executives seeking to "justify" the money drain of their commercial real estate commitments. The Apple flying saucer is perhaps the most obvious example.
These articles always bring the corporate boot-lickers out in force.
I really don't get what they get out of it, I guess they just like the taste of boot polish.
They're lucky that the bosses in the central business district will give them the experience a lot cheaper than Donna the Dominatrix in the red-light district.
I don't know where did you get that ridiculous data from
The doctor with the little flashlight and latex gloves will be along shortly to show you.
The fact is that lots of companies already tried Third World outsourcing, and found that it the downsides (time zone issues, communication issues, etc) ate the savings and more.
It's highly unlikely that the best people are the ones who prefer an environment (the traditional office) where looking busy and management by walking around will enable you to get by rather than an environment (remote working) where extraneous elements are filtered out leaving only performance.
All my experience suggests the exact opposite -- it's much easier to send a suggestion over a text channel than in person, with less downside risk (sending a "no" message back leaves much less of a lasting negative impression than the feeling that someone is wasting your time in person).
spontaneous conversations that often lead to improvement and innovation
Spill of management-speak refrigerator magnets on Aisle Five!
It occurs to me that with oil sales being one of the few things propping up what's left of the Russian economy, their flying-monkey troll army is probably pushing RTO.
Several factors:
1. Some of them are old dogs unhappy about having been forced to learn the new tricks of managing a remote workforce during the worst of the pandemic, and think they can just make it go away and return to the BeforeTimes.
2. Some of them get emotional charges out of being able to boss people in person (or, somewhat more benignly, from having people around in general).
3. Some of them have economic interests in commercial real estate (e.g. the banking industry) or are influenced by people who do.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
