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Yep. Current employer is doing the same. Team member goes into the office 3 days a week, and all our calls are now very noisy with other people in the background. There's only two of us in this location so all our team meetings are video calls anyways. What point is there to going back in at all in that situation?!

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There’s no real point, not in a physical science way

It’s all contrived political points; contracts, socialized norms the elders in charge refuse to negotiate.

The stubbornness and selfishness of the gerontocracy, to serve the dying and dead is gross. Some kind of mental illness fueled by their huffing leaded gas and growing up in world war/Cold War paranoia made it so they cannot escape the idea life is 24/7 militarized economic production.

Why just elders? I see modern start ups and companies, ran by 30/40yo C-suite mandating return to the office.

Elders here I think means “the kind of people who care more about personal status than any actual value to the company”, so that means most C-suite asses.

This is always funny to hear and I agree.

I have worked remote for almost 20 years.

Just because remote is new to the masses doesn’t mean remote or hybrid is new.

Some companies started in person.

They are only so efficient in person let alone remote

They learned it from somewhere.

I think a lot of it has to do with justifying real estate holding, which have likely fallen significantly in value since the pandemic, as remote work had increased. Selling at the worst time is likely out of the question, so they try to make it worth holding on to.

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