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.
Billionaires need to be taxed out of existance.
That’s certainly one of the two ways.
Elon is probably only carrying that child on his shoulders all the time now as a human shield.
I thought he was practicing to do that with Trump.
It would be nice to see poo trickling down Elon’s back every day
If he’d ever actually parented any of his children he’d have already experienced that at least once.
Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we’re kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.
Is it a reference to the recent alt account thing?
What’s the other one? Saving a ‘t’ in the process?
LikeBillionaires need to be
taxed out of existance.?
No taxation without as… I mean representation?
At least until everyone has homes, food, healthcare, freedom, and education.
naw. keep the tax around, keep them from coming back.
I was being sarcastic. You can’t have billionaires without exploiting everyone’s basic human needs for food, shelter, safety, healthcare, or freedom, and they’ll figure that out with a proper education.
Neither of these assholes have ever had a real job. Not even a high paying real job.
Billionaires are a problem.
As someone who was mostly remote since 2015 I’m pretty confused
Clearly you’re living a life of luxury and privilege unlike ordinary hard-working folk like… (tries to keep straight face)… Elon Musk.
Doing drugs and shit-posting is hard work.
Don’t forget all the effort he put in for years to not scream from the top of his lungs that he’s a nazi. It’s tough, I bet he even broke a sweat.
Don’t forget Diablo IV #1
Doing drugs and shit-posting REMOTELY is hard work. ;)
Funny part is that for a few of those years I was actually helping Tesla and SpaceX as part of my fully remote job.
Me too. Musk can’t actually manage people, but he can pretend more convincingly if he can see them in person and yell at them. There are a lot of managers like that and there are far more executives.
My company looked at the actual business results from the period of COVID remote work. Productivity went up, so they decided to keep things that way. It also allowed them to get rid of all their office space, except for a sparsely populated headquarters building, which is saving them a lot of money.
Most studies have shown that workers were more efficient when working remotely. Why would any executive want to reduce efficiency and increase infrastructure costs? The Return-To-Office push is not rational. It represents an inability to adapt to changing conditions. If boards were doing their jobs, they would be quietly showing those executives the door and looking for better people to run their companies.
It’s not irrational it just has more to do with corporate real estate and control than productivity or employee satisfaction. Large companies don’t do anything solely for the benefit of their employees.
Especially with land prices trending upwards. You don’t want to be the exec who has to explain that yes, productivity is up 15%, but you’re sitting on a skyscraper that nobody wants to buy because it’s worth $60mil or whatever.
If no one wants to buy it at $60mil then it is not worth that much.
I think it is irrational, in the sense that executives’ sole legal responsibility, at least in the US, is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. Favoring control over productivity is a violation of that. They are gratifying their egos instead of doing their jobs.
Of course, in a sane world, how they treat their employees would be an issue, not just profitability.
The Return-To-Office push is not rational.
Like most stupid things in our world, it’s about emotions.
This topic is funny to me because I worked for a place that was all about data. Data driven decisions. They had tshirts made that said like “Data > Feelings”.
And yet when people brought up to the CEO stuff like studies showing WFH or 4-day-workweeks were effective, he just said “Nah, we’re not doing that.”. No discussion. No looking at the data. Just no.
To his credit, that CEO did run a profitable startup with barely any funding, so he wasn’t a total fool. But on that kind of stuff he was a total gutfeel asshole.
People who run startups, even the successful ones, tend to be awful to their employees. I should say, especially the successful ones.
The owner of a previous company is a lot like that. He is way more comfortable walking around and seeing people toiling away. I told him I’m perfectly capable of sitting in the office and looking busy for 8 hours.
He treats the place like a convenience store and assumes everyone is stealing from the till.
Remote since 2014… People are crazy
Hell, my uncle was an attorney who was fully remote in the 80s.
Check your privilege!
Don’t try to make it make sense.
This never works well with propaganda.
Ok, let’s say it is a covid-era privilege. Why does that mean it has to go away? Why can’t it be a modern day innovation? Isn’t it a curb on vehicle emissions? More spending money in people’s wallets if they’re not paying for gas or coffee or meals on the go due to commuting? What’s the fuckin downside?? We stumbled upon a good thing
Oh fuck, I forgot the real estate prices. My bad. Yea let’s cancel this whole thing
Isn’t it a curb on vehicle emissions?
Welllll, Elon owns a large share of a company that makes vehicles. So the more people drive, the better for him.
It’s also incredibly fucked up that they’re worried about real estate prices falling in an economy where so many are having a problem paying rent or owning a house.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s entire existence is a privilege.
They thank us by directly using their endless wealth to fuck us out of our last bit of political/economic power
Can Musk please, please, please, just fucking die already? Preferably burnt to death while trapped in a cybertruck. He’s just so stupid and has too much power, and I’m tired of people treating him like he’s worth more than utter contempt.
Ramaswamy can go, too. Conspiracy theory peddling sycophant.
Or just have him go to mars or something. And take Bezos with him. With some luck, they will miss Mars… Or be stuck there.
With some luck, they will hit Mars…
FTFY
“I’ll be in the office when Elon is in the office.”
Yeah is this guy showing up to Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX every single day?
Didnt you hear he personally unlocked the Trump hotel bomb for law enforcement and sent them the surveillance footage of it being charged?
He needs us more than we need him.
he should probably let that sink in.
He just needs a firm reminder from a true patriot at the end of their rope.
Covid - the best times of our lives
If COVID was the best, just wait till bird flu gets here.
They probably won’t lock down again. It will be full steam ahead for the economy. Keep throwing bodies into the burner.
All hail the Economy. We must sacrifice the plebs to make sure the Economy continues to award those at the top.
I worked at a national company of some fame for nearly 20 years. They have two main offices, one in the midwest and one in New England. Before COVID, it was common for folks to work from home, spread across the United States. We even had some fringe cases where people lived in England or Japan and worked from there. I don’t work there anymore, but I hear post covid they are forcing people to move and work from the office. It really is leadership brain rot, everywhere, regardless of industry.
I’ve been working remotely long before the pandemic and I will continue to do so - I’m far from being alone in that. Also, we are still in the “covid-era”, we just collectively decided to pretend we aren’t.
Elon after 2024/12/04:
Seems like he has a pretty exposed area there above the neck…
That’s the big baby and you get bonus points for a clean takedown.
First remote job I had was in 2010 making barely more than minimum wage for tier 1 phone support. These guys are off their rockers.
Rip Disabled people I guess.
And this is coming from the same peoppe saying “just get a job”.
You gotta provide accomodations my guy.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if they re-invent Aktion T4 and kill all the undesirables. It’s just much more efficient, you know?
