Why return-to-office mandates fail::The question over whether to allow employees to work from home has been settled. Here’s the new normal.

  • oxjox@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    How come no one wants to talk about all the small business closing and people losing their jobs. This is a real tangible impact that shouldn’t be dismissed. I live in a big city and we’re all feeling the impact of people not returning to office work. Lack of revenue (small business, real estate, retail) is going to play a huge role in city budgets in the coming years. I work from home so I understand the appeal. Still, I don’t know how we, the city, come out of this.

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      10 months ago

      America doesn’t have communities. In a normal civilized country there would be grand plazas, city centers, districts to walk/shop/eat/live life.

      We have work/home/and maybe a night out sometimes. We shouldn’t be offloading thr responsibilities of city planners and band-aiding small business by forcing companies to hire in office staff.

      We need better, more efficient cities in America, it is the reason everything is going to hell here.

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        10 months ago

        grand plazas, city centers, districts to walk/shop/eat/live life

        Yes. That’s called a city. I don’t know what cities you have in mind but this is how I would describe my city of Philadelphia.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, and driving to park in a massive parking lot that takes an additional 5 minutes to get inside a store is not a shopping plaze, and no open air malls with no actual communities near them don’t count as a “Third place”