Warum die Rückkehr ins Büro für viele Menschen ist eine Gehaltskürzung ist
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/why-returning-office-pay-cut-many-people
Warum die Rückkehr ins Büro für viele Menschen ist eine Gehaltskürzung ist
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/why-returning-office-pay-cut-many-people
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Duh. Its just a layoff where workers lay themselves off so they dont have to pay severance.
Its violence against the working class, is what it is.
Additionally, babysitters are needed to cover the time gap between when kids come home from school and when parents return. That’s actually huge. And there is time savings too. Not everything is measured in dollars. People now know what it is like to live with 2 or 3 extra hours in a day where you are not working.
100% on-site work is such bs.
Coming out of the pandemic and living in the NCR, I saw such a transformative opportunity. If the feds had completely changed their model to WFH by default and sold off or repurposed their (now) excess office space for affordable housing, imagine how Canada would have been transformed. All those cars off the road, no longer spewing pointless carbon. All that time and money saved. All that property for housing. It would be like a utopia!
But of course I’m not thinking of the poor convoy-supporting downtown sandwich shop owners….
I remained employed throughout covid because I was a program manager for technology projects. My entire team was 100% remote until 2024 when they became hybrid.
Despite all the uncertainty of the pandemic and supporting two adult kids who were unemployed for the first year, I never saved as much money as I did over those four years. I paid off all my debts, I started saving money, built retirement investments.
I never realized just how expensive commuting was, buying lunches, having a whole other work wardrobe and more. And I was not a bit spender.
I retired earlier this year, thankfully, before the bit RTO started but if I had to be back at work I’d be losing money.
Full time working from home would directly impact and solve the affordability crisis for many, much more than what a 1% tax break can ever bring.
The top expense for a majority of Canadians is housing. We have all this land, but are unable to effectively use it as most of our economic activity (and therefore jobs) are limited to only a handful of cities. Working from home would allow Canadians to move out and develop new urban area’s and support new local businesses and entrepreneurs.
And this is just one benefit out of many from full time work from home. What a backwards decision forcing everyone returning to the office is, and what an attack it is towards the working class.
It’s essentially perpetuating the worker class as a slave class.
„We need your money to keep our downtowns running so come downtown 8 hours a day and spend your money.“
It’s almost like a tax to support the downtowns.
It’s also unlikely to restore the vibe of 2019 as so many people today do not see the point in internal meetings. They’ll be in their own offices meeting virtually with people in other offices. This is going to get old very quickly I think.