The pandemic has significantly popularized remote work, allowing employees to perform their duties from home, thus reducing commuting stress and saving time and money. However, some companies are now resisting this shift. According to a Reddit user, the deeper reason for this opposition is to maintain a culture of fear that keeps workers compliant with low wages, as transitioning to remote work empowers employees and shifts control. This pattern reflects broader issues within labor practices in the U.S., where firms prioritize control over genuine productivity.
The real opposition to WFH, I believe, comes from the same visceral place within employers that oppose unionizing. The West, particularly the United States, is extremely sick in terms of labor and cultural practices.
It's like companies are mostly all indirectly in collusion with one another because they see and know the threat of working at home. It shifts the power that is almost entirely stacked at the feet of the employer over to the worker.
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