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Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest. (www.colorado.edu)
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[–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They signed a 20-year lease 10 years ago so they feel like they have to use the building.

Source: wild assumptions, i know nothing about commercial real estate.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It’s more the canteen and coffee shops onsite I think.

    Our place guarantees minimum revenue to the canteen.

    The company has to pay extra if the staff aren’t there.

    Then there’s all the other businesses in the area. I imagine they come under pressure from local government to bring workers back to save those businesses

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I betcha a nickle that the fines paid to the canteen would be more than offset by the increase in profits due to worker productivity.

    It's like the time theft myth, the belief that workers will intrinsically slack unless you micromanage them. In fact the opposite is true, when workforces are allowed to chat with loved ones and surf the internet their productivity improves.

    Curiously, when a company mandates that 15-minute breaks are taken and lunch is eaten during lunch break (even when workers are obsessive and want to work through breaks) then their productivity improves even more.

    But the upper management of companies don't actually want to manage in a way that data shows maximizes profits.

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