[baryphonic]

I have been surprised that environmental activists haven't protested return-to-office policies for the incident increase in pollution. Seems like there is very little data backing up RTO other than commercial real estate sunk costs, and loads of costs like lost time commuting, energy used to commute, emissions due to traffic, etc.

[floren]

I know of one huge international pharma company with a site in South SF that is reducing conference attendance with the stated purpose of reducing emissions, while simultaneously requiring all employees to be on-site 3 days a week regardless of job function (yes, lab workers have to be in the lab for their work, but plenty of positions spend most of their time on video calls with other sites in Sweden, Netherlands, England, China, India...)

[solarpunk]

Wasn't this one of the reasons behind the Amazon walkouts

[dalyons]

Do executive feelings count as data

[tehjoker]

the lack of resistance to RTO from many political perspectives has been stunning tbh

[sahila]

Wfh sure seems like a negative in terms of measured economic activity - less gas buying, fewer coffee and lunch purchases and happy hours, and or course depressed commerical real estate, all leading to lower tax in take. Happy to see the political upside.

[tehjoker]

the upside is its better for workers and the climate lol it also reduces the spread of COVID-19, which is an ongoing pandemic.

[Gibbon1]

At first I was for cars with higher MPG.

Then I was for more mass transit.

Finally I realized it'd be cheaper to move work closer to where we built houses for the peons to live instead of close to where the boss lives.

Nothing closer than a home office.