Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Exactly how my office is doing things. All of us are tracked by our phones to ensure commutes and then by IP address pulled from Entra ID and company-wide VPN. They cross reference it with our seat booking system.
We were 100% remote for all employees since March 2019. Managers now encourage us to go out and buy food at the restaurants nearby (some even “jokingly” ask for receipts which some people keep).
It’s more important to hold up the economy than lower emissions and improve morale, employee happiness, and productivity.
I feel like helping local economy is the only valid reason against work from home.
But, you know. Not like better city planning wouldn’t help this.
As much as I hate to admit it, the conversations that happen because I overheard another conversation a couple cubes over do have value.
If they have value to the company then how about sharing the costs of commuting? A 50-50 split seems reasonable to me. The company gets the value of those conversations, and the plebs get some help with all that fuel they now have to buy, at ridiculous prices due to high oil prices.
My city of 3000 people certainly appreciates us buying locally. Some other city that’s 100x the size? They’re gonna be fine. Is the real estate price really so important business would rather make us buy goods from nearby places?
