Company on TikTok got ROASTED for posting this incredibly cringe and honestly infuriating TikTok about how there’s two people working in office during Thanksgiving in the USA, and it’s just the two of them, no one else is there, but they still have to come to the office. They thought they were really doing something here and going to make people laugh. But they are so out of touch with reality. Almost every other company I’ve heard of let’s people work from home during this time, but not these truly soulless corporate shills, of course. And they had the audacity to say that they enjoy working in the office, and it’s not even a good office with cubicles, mind you. It’s one of the open concept ones where there’s no privacy and you have to hear everyone fully…
Mostly, it started with small startups and then big corpos thinking “hey they were successful! And their team looks happy!”
So they emulate it. The thing is something that works for groups of 5 doesn’t work so well for more than that.
Also, yeah. There’s probably somebody in the corporate decision tree that realizes it’d increase opportunities for middle management to suck the soul out their minions, but usually the people pushing it are just stupid, and trying to be “hip” and “cool”, and all “how do you do, fellow kids?!”-ish cuz they read about it in a Forbes magazine.
That’s fair, I mostly just associate it with Japanese business practices, where to my knowledge it’s an equalization and community thing. You see the big boss sitting there next to everyone same as everyone else in the same uniform and eating the same meals. The problem is, that in Japan they have experience with being considerate of others in shared spaces, and round here in the states we’re atrocious at it.