[CooCooCaCha]

That’s exactly why it doesn’t work. Leaving our rights to the market to decide does not work. It never has.

Why? Because for the vast majority of people, employers have almost all of the negotiating power. What this means is the market is slowly shaped by what employers want, not employees. Because we need a job more than they need our labor.

It’s naive to think the market is a level playing field and if employees want something they just vote with their labor and the market will adapt. That’s just not true. Most people don’t have the ability to change jobs on a whim to play the market with their livelihoods.

[selectodude]

I don’t understand - do you think it’s the government’s role to step in and mandate remote work?

[dbish]

It works fine for tech and most white collar jobs. You can indeed vote with your feet unless you make very poor financial decisions (or have too high of needs) for most of these careers.