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No admin staff moaning about people leaving a teaspoon in the sink. We earn enough money, just hire a full time cleaner.

Windows that open

People not coming in to the office sick

Making offices plural. Not having one big open plan office

More meeting rooms

Monitors better than mine

Chairs better than mine

Desks bigger and better than mine

AC that doesn’t dry out my throat

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Reading this made me chuckle. Those are really basic and sensible demands, but still so rare to find covered in any of the expensive offices.

You won't find that whole list even at FAANG offices. Employers refuse to make their offices superior to WFH so they have to force people in under penalty of job loss instead.

Yup but that doesn’t stop HR gaslighting us about our “amazing world class offices” and how “lucky” we are to have this “benefit” provided to us lol

IT departments seem to have decided that standard low-dpi 1080p monitors are perfectly fine, forever.

It’s all so punitive.

Same with office furniture and facilities.

Australian offices suck in my experience, and it seems it’s a global phenomenon. There are rare exceptions of course.

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