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   @n.e.g.u.s

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   I cant be the only person outraged that people were forced to work from home or not at all and then on top of that being told to switch back after years of it actually working for employees. The working class has reached their breaking point or one would surely hope.

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   @usasupra23

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   They forgot to mention how managers abuse it by forcing to come into office when NOT needed. That’s also highly abused and overlooked.
   The WFH is truly a case by case so there’s no clear answer.

   But please take not on how some managers abuse and force to come to office like it’s 1955!!!!

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3. 

   @fosterandnava

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   I think people should stop being lazy and just go back to work. Most people don’t have the luxury of working from home. But hey my job is categorized as an “Essential Worker” so maybe I’m just bitter lol

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   @mateofernando5066

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   This is all about control and has nothing to do with productivity. Employers don't trust their employees. However, most companies still need to rationalize why the own or are still leasing underutilitzed office space. So, if they don't force the employees back to the office, the shareholders will question why a company has office rent / leasing costs?

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5. 

   @Rebecca0010

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   It really shouldn’t be. There are so many people who want skilled remote work. People with disabilities, people who live in remote areas and now people moving out of cities as well. It’s time to get with how much it’s necessary to make the change to remote or see people fight over it.

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6. 

   @MobfiaEnt

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   Any good remote jobs I can get into under a year recommendations ? 😅

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7. 

   @MartinAston00

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   Glad they touched on the Real Estate aspect, which is huge in multiple financial directions. So many office buildings would be ghosted for years or demolished if not repurposed. Scaring the Billionaires😂

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   @giliamjohanwinckler4924

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   No. No, no, no… Is there anyone here who sees the long-term and large scale issue this is bound to create? I offer but one fact – people are social creatures, and letting them choose to put themselves in holes (so to speak), albeit grandiose or somewhere rural or whatever in between, has but one result. This result leads to several other psychological issues too. So, a concerned and well-meant "dislike" from me, simply because of this.

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9. 

   @pj6857

   December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

   Remote work should have ended two years ago, now we have to deal with couch losers who think it’s good to work from home. Grow up people, work isn’t done from home

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    @garthhonhart8270

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Folks that proposed, championed, and signed off on HUGE real estate investments, leases, and the stuff inside those buildings are the ones trying to save face here. Just get over it. It's a sunk cost that's not coming back. Knowledge workers like the fact that they don't have to spend hours going between home and an empty office.

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11. 

    @AbdulRazak-de2lf

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Yea if your work with internet and computer, remote work still releven. If your work in constrution, farming and other work, there is no meaning remote work 😂.

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12. 

    @PeoplesChoiceofficial

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    yeah because the sellers or blue collar or any service people can work from home LOL

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13. 

    @tabishonen

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Hybrid model upon each worker’s (especially mgr and above) discretion is the best

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14. 

    @SSD5430

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    This is government running the show from backend. They don't want the cities to die

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15. 

    @YouB3anz

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    dimples for days

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16. 

    @thegenevasays

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    When he said let’s pause here do you know notice something I said hmm they’re all middle aged white men? But that wasn’t the thing he said

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    @alyssiagonzalez

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    I don't think remote work is done.I think more people are looking for remote now more than ever before cause you know what's possible and traffic sucks.

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    @josephford2211

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    These companies have simply invested too much money in their respective office buildings and see this bringing people back into the office as a way of at least using the buildings for what they intended instead of paying for an empty husk to occupy the space.

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    @bajay665544

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Companies need to think about carbon footprint. An employee commuting to office definitely makes use of transport which will cause pollution. If they would like to be a part of net zero goals, think about a win-win situation where both the Employee and the management is satisfied. I strongly believe that even if companies don’t mandate, some of them will be willing to go to office!

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20. 

    @hfddsds4901

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    yeah you can work at home, but not american home but indian home??

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21. 

    @ForgingMyWins

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Just sounds to me that office space is useless and no longer want it to be useless 😮

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22. 

    @fartgod6983

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    7:10explains everything

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23. 

    @owenh.2265

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    CNBC is pushing the end of remote work because it hurts commercial real estate values and thus the elite. Working from home saves regular people time and money.

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24. 

    @chasemoray425

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    People are more productive and creative when surrounded by others in an in person work environment. End of story.

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25. 

    @paran0ia7

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    As desperately as many companies wish otherwise, the golden age of remote work has barely begun. Working where you want AND living where you want is just too appealing, especially when it barely (if at all) affects the work itself; and being forced to pick one or the other merely to justify the existence of a dedicated office is a game many people are done playing. Additionally, the implosion of commercial real-estate I would argue is among the BEST side-effects, as it really lays bare just how much of our cities' precious space is currently being wasted.

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26. 

    @MrBrad898540

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    The people in this video arguing against remote working can't get over themselves. That's the real issue. The era of the boss as demigod feels threatened because the employee is no longer one of their minions who can be controlled and thrown into the everyday drama of the workplace, and now has the opportunity to function independently. This video is not only ridiculous, it reeks of insecurity, paranoia, and fear. Loss of control means a threat to personal ego and pride. Remote work is the future. Get over yourselves!

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27. 

    @nevm7469

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    it needs to end, it was a temporary pandemic era necessity that no longer is and should be treated as such. it’s horrible for the economy, it’s horrible for productivity, it’s a detriment to new and junior employees and it’s not fair to the vast majority of workers who don’t have the option but are negatively impacted by the effects of it anyways. as a founder im actually a much bigger fan of the 4 day work week than i am remote or even hybrid work. i would rather see us shift to a 4 day in-office work week than continue down the road of the failed wfh experiment. my company certainly doesn’t allow remote work anymore and we found that out of the 40% of employees who initially threatened to quit over a full return to a normal in-office schedule only 4% actually did and it’s been a year now. if all companies would just follow suit it would make rto adherence very simple.

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    @cosmiccatzen

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Concerns about productivity = sociopath, control freak , out of touch CEOs wanting to control people like serfs. It’s just robber barons who feel like the little people are getting too much freedom. Don’t go back into those offices, start your own company.

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    @SigFigNewton

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Part of what has changed the discussion around remote work is the current pain in the commercial real estate market. A lot of wealthy individuals and institutions are now trying to convince everyone that remote work is bad because they don’t want their asset to depreciate.

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    @nazarm6215

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    follow the money and you'll understand why they are forcing RTO–these companies are heavily invested into CRE. they either have loans or stipulations with local government for jobs created as tax cuts for those orgs.

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    @zimcoder

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    CEO'S generally don't care about their employees, they care about control and profit. I work as a software developer and I don't get the obsession of getting us to sit for hours in traffic only to come in and sit in front of a computer.. Elon Musk has stated many time ls over, he would rather have his employees work 80hrs a week and sleep in the office like him.

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32. 

    @ososdechengdu

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Let's all go back into the office so that real estate companies don't lose too much money.

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33. 

    @LAA2198

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    How about Europe? My European partners get to have mandatory extended vacation.

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34. 

    @BeeGirl316

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    You’re comparing opinions not only over time, but of different people. Find a positive statement from Elon from 2020 and come back to talk to me.

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35. 

    @alessandrameows

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Nice try corporate America

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36. 

    @Matrix803

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    I work remotely two days a week as a web developer, and it is fantastic when I get to.

    One day while I was commuting home from the office, I saw a car literally flipped upside down partially off the road, and someone was crushed underneath it, possibly dead. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen, and it made me think I really should be working remotely 5 days a week, not just two.

    I actually find it's more distracting when I'm in the office and I'm less productive. Just the other day I was in-office, and my manager had a call with someone on speakerphone, and the shrill tone of the audio coming from his phone carried right into my office, even with my door shut, so I couldn't concentrate. I was also coming down with a cold that day, so I left the office early and told him I would continue working remotely that day. Well, when I got home, I got much more work done than I did in the office.

    The other problem with in-office work is safety. Our doors are unlocked and open all the time, because since the building I work in is a small commercial building built in 1990, delivery workers need to drop off the packages inside the office. But it also means I've had random people walk in from the street for any variety of reasons, and that would break my concentration with my coding. Once the person would leave, it would then take me extra time to pick up where I left off. On top of that, oftentimes I'm working in the office by myself with nobody else around at night. So, imagine a person wandering in from the dark, and I have nobody there to handle the situation with me.

    Some jobs obviously cannot be remote, such as car mechanics, bus drivers, surgeons, restaurant waiters and waitresses, fire fighters, etc. But if you have a job that entails sitting in front of a computer all day with internet access, then you really don't need an office for that.

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37. 

    @cia5649

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    seems more like a US problem since most other countries prefer a mixed model of 2-3 days remote and the rest remote or simply remote but meetings with clients/team members or management in office

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38. 

    @kinganzu

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    People dont realise if you push for remote work, these heartless corporations will fire you and outsource your job to a remote worker in another country. Remote work is going to cause a lot of people to price themselves out if the job market.

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39. 

    @Zones33

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    I hate remote work. To be productive I need to be somewhere that’s not my room so I don’t get distracted

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40. 

    @thetranspersonalalchemist

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    We are burned out and we need to be allowed to be human! What is so hard to understand? These greedy billionaire’s expect us all to dedicate all of our life force energy to them becoming rich, meanwhile we are struggling to get our basic needs met. Why do you think productivity is down?! Many people are working multiple jobs just to survive. Over. It.

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41. 

    @danrussell_official

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    lol remote is here to stay. It’s a no brainer net positive for every party involved

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42. 

    @mathewomolo

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    bosses miss the satisfaction of looking at you sitted there, tired from your commute, making them money.

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43. 

    @dmitrykim3096

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Hybrid is ideal

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44. 

    @dmitrykim3096

    December 17, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    Who cares about commercial real estate

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