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[+] 57 points 7 months ago* (13 children)
  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Sure, sure ... but it's important to remember that not all jobs are office jobs.

    For your delivery drivers, retail shelf-stockers, sanitation workers, farmers, nurses, construction workers, etc, etc, etc ... remote work doesn't really work for them. Remote work is fine for IT jobs, clerical jobs, and administrative jobs, but a lot of jobs can't be done that way, which means a lot of people still need to commute.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    In a nearby harbor they were crying out for dock workers. You have to be at location, but there was no transit option. The nearby city was too expensive for housing for the salary they got so the commute by car from somewhere affordable was long and not worth the pay. Commuting isn't free.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees' home offices.

    A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    The reality is that its unnecessary for the absolute majority but there are some exceptions, which people wont list to make their statement absolutely correct. It would be exhausting to do that just to satisfy some people who need that.

    I dont mind blanket statements when its something to applies to almost everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    When you can only commute with a car, yeah it's dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it's a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it's forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn't in my free time. Gym of life.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    What kind of dumb argument is that? If you worked from home you could still take a morning and afternoon bike ride. And you could actually go some place new or run an errand.

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  • [+] 8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why impose your preferences on that other person?

    The return-to-office folks are not giving us the option of returning to work if we want. They're forcing us even when it's completely unnecessary. So yeah, you should have the option to bike to work when and if you want but the rest of us should have the option to opt out when it's possible to work from home. That's 100% not happening.

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