No RTO

[skyyyyyyyyyy@lemmy.world]

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[rumschlumpel@feddit.org]

If only bosses actually cared about productivity and free employee satisfaction.

[trampel@feddit.org]

Don't need remote work for that!

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

It has nothing to do with productivity. When you have a lease for 20 years on very expensive downtown property and a whole department that manages that property and sr stakeholders that have investments in the commercial real estate. Then it all makes sense.

[etterra@discuss.online]

Also they tend to be control freaks.

[uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca]

Having a % increase associated with masturbation (vs undefined/infinite) means that there was a non-0 number of office masturbations prior to remote work.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

I know me, I'm a control freak

[w3dd1e@lemm.ee]

It’s called going dark. Most businesses don’t own their property. So if they stop operating at a location, even if they still pay rent, there are consequences.

Say you own a strip mall with a grocery store. A selling point to getting restaurants and retail on around it is that the grocery is there. If the grocery store stops doing business there, all the other stores lose business.

I don’t agree with it, but that’s how it is.

[wander1236@sh.itjust.works]

I don't think that's impossible

[cmdrshepard42@lemm.ee]

I'm not sure your example tracks as there'd be no reason for a grocery store to pay rent without occupying the space. In this analogy, it would need to be some sort of office which would have some tangential effect on surrounding businesses (like restaurants), but those restaurants could just relocate to where the people are now in their homes.

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

Wait, I was supposed to record how often I jerk it when I was in the office? Because I may have underreported.

[punnyname@lemmy.world]

Boss makes a dollar, I make a penny, that's why I'm drunk on "Jack" and Henny.

[hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Duh

The interesting part really is that it's RECORDED non-zero amount. Someone's been keeping track

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
Unfortunately, what I do
Doesn't really rhyme

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

Because of zoning laws in a lot of places that's not possible.

For instance, where I live, restaurants are restricted to commercial zones. Housing is restricted to residential zones.

That also gets into the question of "why" do we have zoning laws, and that gets complicated, because it was most beneficial in separating factories and utilities, and very noisy and polluty things from where people lived.

Unfortunately they also had the idea that any enterprise fell into this idea, and the other businesses didn't want to mix with other polluters and residents and it became a big mess

[greenappletree@lemmy.world]

Going from 1 a month in the office to 120 at home is a 12,000% increase.

Sounds reasonable for a decent sized workforce. Or that one person doing it 5 times a day every day. Which is probably easier for one half of the population than the other half.

[sam_bass@lemmy.world]

The product increase is not solely a commercially viable one

[punnyname@lemmy.world]

I like it!

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

In that case, I have another for you:

I drive a Volvo
Boss drives Lamborghini
That's why we need
more people like Luigi

[w3dd1e@lemm.ee]

I work in commercial real estate. That was a real example. They continue to pay rent so they don’t have to pay termination fees.

And yes, personally I agree they should fail or relocate but that’s not what investors in the property think.