Times Up Telework...Return to the Office?

[ProfD]

The pandemic forced employers to allow folks to work frim home (telework). Productivity didn't seem to suffer.

 

Yet, two years later, companies are looking to bring workers back into their offices even if it's a couple days per week or month. 

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-musk-says-tesla-needs-070712003.html

 

Tulsa CEO Elon Musk has laid down the gauntlet. Workers can either put 40 hours in the office or pretend to work somewhere else.

 

Musk is also threatening to cut 10% of the workforce due to a "super bad feeling" about the economy. 

 

Nevermind that Telsa made about $19 billion during the pandemic. The company hasn't missed a beat in producing electric vehicles or traveling to space.

 

Nonetheless, the CEO calls the shots. If anyone is looking for employment, be on the lookout for job openings at companies like Tesla when the smoke clears. 

[Pioneer1]

Remember what Mr.Fuller said about racism and how the racists LOVE and LIVE to dominate and mistreat Black folks???

 

Well, I'm not sure if you heard them or not but all through out 2020 and 2021 I was seeing and hearing reports about how so many Black employees who were working from home were breathing signs of relief, their health improved, their blood pressure went down, their mental health improved.....why?

The reports said that while working from home, they didn't have to do with the stress related to racism they experienced so much at the work place.
The nit-picking, snide comments, racist jokes, having your idea ignored, being overlooked, ect....and the other shit so many Black employees have to go through in Corporate America just to keep a job.
Infact, a lot of Black folks felt so good leaving "the plantation" they acutally QUIT their jobs altogether and decided to open up their own businesses and work from home.

 

I keep telling folks that this corona mess was actually a BENEFIT for a lot of Black folks.
They didn't want thing to "get back to normal".
Most of the people hollering and crying for things to get back to "normal" were middle aged White men who were making money off of exploiting people.

Many of them couldn't stand the fact that so many Black and Brown people were making a living and getting money and no longer had to take shit from them in a racist work environment.  If they couldn't dominate and rule over Black folks at work....many of them would have rather not lived anymore and many White men actually committed suicide, depressed that they couldn't dominate or mistreat the people under them at work.

[ProfD]

Yep. Forcing people back into the workplace is about 1) control and 2) money. 

 

Some management folks believe they have to "see" people on order to believe they are working. 

 

It's also harder for some *managers* to justify their jobs when they're not looking over someone else's shoulder and/or taking credit for their work. 

 

Nevermind that an employee can show up to the building and spin around in their chair for 6 hours and take 2 hours between lunch and smoke breaks and talking to other coworkers. IOW, productivity cannot be measured solely by folks showing up to punch a clock.

 

Office buildings cost money to operate (lease and utilities). But, they also feed into other businesses too. When folks show up for work they also have to spend money on transportation,  gas, food, child care, etc. 

 

Controlling people and feeding the economy is driving employers to bring folks back to work.