OK, my title may be a bit incendiary… But I’ve about had it with the recent constant parade of articles calling for “return to the office” as a cure for everything. It’s almost like the Murdoch press has a vested interest? Anyway, we’re in a cost of living crisis and we’re calling to lump everyone with higher travel, and food costs all over again. So much for work life balance. If everyone does return to their offices will the press start running fluff articles about all the suburban cafes and restaurants that are suffering now that their local post-pandemic foot traffic is stuck back in the city?
Vacant shops… the commercial lot owners could always charge rent at what the market can bear.
Gotta love how “efficient” the free market is hey
Problem is lot owners borrowed to purchase or build a building that was obscenely overpriced due to lack of supply.
Sally capp and her vested interest in bringing spending back into the city. Why people should be forced to pay for transport and give up time with family etc to buy coffee is behind me.
Why don’t the local mayors in the suburbs fight back to support their local businesses who are thriving due to wfh?
We’ve moved beyond late stage capitalism and are now in end stage, palliative capitalism.
That’s where the proletariat are simultaneously deprived of survivable income and also punished for not spending enough to keep capitalism working.
This country has barely any industry outside of sales and the land. We either sell the land, or dig it up and sell it.
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Hate to shatter your world view but mining is only about 5.8%% of the economy — same size as our manufacturing industry coincidentally. Realestate only makes up 3.1% of the economy.
Most of the economy is services at 68%. Our health care industry (part of services) is larger than our mining industry. Our education industry(again services) is 4.8% of the economy. We actually have a pretty diversified economy.
Manufacturing isn’t the be all of an economy and it isn’t where the wage to profit ratio is equitable. We all earn more as a service economy than we would as a manufacturing economy.
I have a question,
If our economy is all service related we would be very insular and not bringing in outside investment. Woudlnt that cause stagnation?
I sell coffee to buy healthcare who buy education who bye coffee. Round and round
I really don’t see the fuss. I’ve been back in the office full time since last year.
If we need a WFH day we can have it otherwise expectations are too go in.
I honestly prefer the flexibility of a day at home when I need it over having agreed home and office days.
Look, I too would prefer to be in the office most days, and being new to my industry, wished others would do the same. But it’s just not practical for so many people to be in every day when they have kids, or can’t afford to live close to work.
I’m glad my company doesn’t have any expectation of being in the office.
I have got kids and travel for over an hour to get into the office. It’s what we all did pre-covid
Working from home is a privilege and should be treated as such. If it’s taken for granted it will be taken away
Good for you, if an hour commute either way suits you, then cool. Though it’s been shown through so many studies that a commute that long increases stress. It’s also an hour you’ll never get back.
If you’re happy, then I’m happy for you, but you’d do well to use a little empathy that for others 2 hours from their day just makes life harder. Not everyone has they same life you have. We would all do well to remember that.
