KEY POINTS
- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom President-elect Donald Trump appointed to lead a new government efficiency team, said they intend to call federal employees back to the office five days a week.
- Companies such as Amazon and The Washington Post are adopting a similar policy in 2025.
- But many companies will keep remote or hybrid work arrangements, largely because they boost profits, economists said.
- Some view return-to-office mandates as a stealthy way to reduce employee head count.
That and they don’t understand how to manage people remotely.
One of the benefits of working from home has been that my manager can no longer use standing staring at me as his main means of judging whether I’m doing work. The whole business of needing to see people working just smacks of shitty management.
FTFY
Largely also true. In my office, my manager is remote anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I’m in my local office or home office.
So their reasons is control, paranoia, vanity, incompetence when it comes to remote management and their undivided devotion to the American Dollar.
something something spanish inquisition
Man, I don’t even get a comfy chair!
My new Aeron arrived two weeks ago. It replaced my 18 year old … Aeron. It has served me well, and needs just 200 in repairs (new pads, new struts, cylinder) so I may give it to my cousin.
Yeah. Comfy chair, cool lifty desk, sweet river view, floofy cats. I dearly hope we can keep WFBest in our next union contract too.
Now wait a minute, I saw your review!
WORK chair. :)