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Workers want to stay remote, prompting an office real estate crisis

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You can see which side the propaganda sides with by the choice of words. Remote is defined as "situated far from the main centres of population". Google also displays a new definition "working away from a usual workplace or location"

They are really hammering the narrative. You belong in the office! It is where you belong! Imagine we replace working with say fishing. What would fishing in a remote place be? At home? Or say eating remote? Is this eating at home?

Who is running what? Is the human running the company or the company running the human?

What if it prompts an amazing windfall of so much unused indoor space? No it's a crisis. This is why we can't have nice things and why the concept of 'post scarcity' is delusional.

>rent or buy a house with your life savings so you can spend most of your day (and life) time cramped with other people in a noisy crowded opne office like a bunch of kindergarten kids. Aka: being productive at corps.

It's causing a crisis for the bourgeoisie. That means we all must be terrified.

"people realize they can wear their clothes for more than one year, prompting a clothing industry crisis"

I wish employers would stop pretending the push to end remote work is even tangentially related to productivity.

"Dear employees, As you probably know, our C-suite and their golf buddies are heavily invested in commercial real estate. Your absense in downtowns is a grave danger to CRE and our financial future. For this reason, we need you to show up in offices at least every other day. We understand that the unnecessary air pollution from commute is a high price to pay when the climate is getting so unstable, but we believe it's an acceptable price to get us rich quickly. Truly yours, the Chief Nihilist Officer on behalf of the top management team."

If only it was more affordable to convert office space to housing. Two big wins: more housing, more people living in downtowns.

Funny how when you allocate resources by heavily leveraged gambling, any failure of events to go according to plan is a "crisis".

https://archive.ph/Sa3Xi

What I really want is both.

Being able to setup a week or two of in office stuff, but then also being able to WFH to get solo stuff done

But the “Zoom video calls in the office are the productively and company culture!!!”

Not my problem.

> Economists warn the situation could portend disaster, risking parts of the banking system, too.

Well well well…, also, these “economists” reminded me with the “scientists” during the pandemic. (Who turned out later to be big corps pawns), if there’s any list of these so called economists, please share.

A crisis for who exactly...?

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