• DankDingleberry@lemmy.world
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    “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”. this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

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    I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.

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    So the government telling businesses how they have to operate is small government now?

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    Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.

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    Working from home for all jobs that it is compatible with should be a mandate to help lower the amount of gas necessary for commuting.

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    Then they aren’t really about efficiency, are they? When properly set up, WFH for office work is very effective and efficient.

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      Efficient for whom? The rich all have millions invested in commercial real estate so if it’s not about voluntary resignations it’s about that.

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      they already said it themselves: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome” so no, it was never about efficiency. at all.

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      But think of the billions of dollars of now unused office space. That’s horrible for real estate pricing, which is where many of these fucks are invested.

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    At least they’re open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

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      Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?

      They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that’s what they’re pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they’ll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.

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        They said they want to run the government like a business,

        In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

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    It did seem weird to me that Harris or any of the other democratic candidates campaigned on remote work. Seems like a smart pro-worker position to take that would directly impact a group she was trying to court: college educated professionals who skew male. Plus lower environmental impact, cheaper gas, more opportunities for working parents, etc.

    The cynical reason I assume it wasn’t a talking point is because the 1% who directed the media conversation had a vested interest in return to pre-Covid status quo.

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    Imma be real… this isn’t even a GOP vs DNC thing, the government has always fucking haaaaated telework, especially since Covid let the genie out of the bottle.

    It’s still going to be handled significantly worse than the DNC would though.

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    We owe commercial real estate investors exactly jacksh’t. This is, at least in part, about securing income for commercial landlords. Their “jobs” aren’t any more precious than anyone else’s jobs that are being impacted hard by this changing era. If they would like to fill their buildings, they can fork over some cash to convert parts of them to housing.

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      Not landlords. About securing investments in commercial real estate.

      Which given its traditional status as a rock solid baseline for investors, its not at all surprising that two rich fuckers are pushing hard to shore up commercial real estate. It probably makes a significant part of their investments.

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    A people elected government has a mandate to protect its people. Its real frightening to see that instead it announces adopt the worst business practises of private economy.

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    “The Deep State appreciates your hard work, know how, and dedication. Come work for us from home and help stymie the Shallow State”