Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.

RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    9 months ago

    If most companies didn’t get so horny for “open floor” plans and/or cubicles maybe nearly everyone wouldn’t hate their fancy expensive real estate holdings so much.

    • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      9 months ago

      The worst is “high-efficiency seating” which is just a long table where you sit elbow to elbow with your colleagues and try to work. Even cubicles are too fancy for these companies.

      • GhostFence@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        9 months ago

        If I was still working for The Man there’s no way I’d RTO. Nothing enkindles my rage faster than the idiots saying “COVID is over” when it’s more infectious than ever. Well, nothing except the ones who say COVID won’t kill you (I’ve got over a million reasons to show how that’s bullshit). There isn’t an office in the world that isn’t a de facto COVID infection party. ESPECIALLY the ones where you sit elbow to elbow. Frak that, I’m not going to die to make a living.

          • GhostFence@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            And the worst part is most of those deaths were totally, tragically preventable. “Muh economy” lol you can’t produce shit with dead workers…

        • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          Covid is over in the same way the flu was over in 1923, its still there, it’ll still kill people every winter but its endemic and there’s no getting rid of it and no point upending all society with all the other problems that causes in order to try and bring it down a few percent.

          • GhostFence@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            9 months ago

            It’s endemic because people had exactly that attitude. China for instance had COVID totally under control until they adopted that “no point upending blah blah” mentality. China and India locked down hard and even COMBINED they didn’t hit the death rate America had.

            Of course I’m sure Facebook Conspiracy Theory Center has the big top secret scoop on how China and India had tons of invisible people dying of COVID until they opened up, lol.

            • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              China opened up because despite the intense government control and suppression they started having spontaneous demonstrations verging on riots against the restrictions which spooked the government.

              • GhostFence@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                9 months ago

                And look what that got them. A bunch of Chinese citizens who never got another chance to participate in anything because they’re dead. SMDH at a government responsible for Tiananmen Square. They got balls when it’s time to be evil but not when thousands or millions of lives are at stake.