Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don’t show up 3 days a week::Meta, formerly known as Facebook, told employees that its new RTO policy would be enforced by management.

  • scarrtt@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I suspect that these big corporations were advised by banks and the government to scale back work from home policies to avoid triggering a real estate market collapse in cities by vacating expensive office space en masse. This could cause defaults by landlords and a housing crisis as workers no longer need to pay premiums to live near offices. An exodus from cities would crater housing markets, which would severely damage the overall economy. Thus corporations are only half-heartedly pushing for office returns to avert an economic crisis, despite the cost savings of remote work

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Since when do big corporations give a shit about bursting industry bubbles? If it’s not their own bubble, they loooooooove to capitalize on the profit margins that come from disasters. Even if it is their own bubble, they’ll find a way to short their own stock to see a big windfall.

      • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Economy collapse -> people have less money -> people spend less money -> the corporation has less revenue -> :)

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        1 year ago

        This is almost guaranteed to have trickled down. If the banks go down due to being overleveraged, everyone suffers. Isn’t it strange all the major companies are doing this, even when it doesn’t make sense? Literally no one else from my team works in my office, they’re all in another state. Then again, I work for a bank, so… Yeah. This is the “if I go down, we all go down” part of the plot