There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible.

I would like my work computer to do Windows updates lightning quick in the office. It currently takes weeks, in or out of the office. Stopping in for a day makes no difference, so there is no point. Now, if there was a point, I would go in.

What would get you in the office?

  • riseuppikmin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Some things that would make me consider it:

    • Free high quality lunches every day
    • Transportation compensation in the form of both work time (if the office is poorly located) and monetary compensation for transportation expenses
    • Management improvement plan with actions they’re taking/implementing to reduce the time they’re wasting of laborers on a day-to-day basis
    • Alteration of the company structure to force a large percentage (simple majority) of ownership to workers to push back against reactionary and profit-driven anti-labor whims of shareholders
    • Services/compensation that complete tasks that previously I could do during downtime at home
    • Yearly inflation-pegged CoL raises that apply to every laborer in the company before salary raises are made
    • Massive investment in in-office employee training programs in the form of role-based training that is chosen by laborers in that particular role/function

    If every single one of these things were implemented I would then still probably leave the place for another WFH job if we didn’t use our new ownership powers to revert back to WFH immediately.

    • dom@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Youd give up ownership of the company and extremely employee focused culture, guaranteed favourable yearly increases, as well as the company paying for you to get personal stuff done professionally in order to stay working from home?

      This sounds incredibly reactionary and illogical.

      • riseuppikmin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I say at the end that we’d probably immediately use those powers to revert back to better working conditions (WFH).

        I can’t see any scenario where this doesn’t happen immediately and was mostly just riffing at the absurdity of thinking companies would implement these things (outside of maybe free lunches) in order to empower labor (to the company’s shareholders’ detriment) willingly.