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runakotoday at 3:25 PM1 replyview on HN

This is fascinating, and possibly relevant to companies that hire for the long term. Unfortunately, that excludes most of corporate America.


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riskabletoday at 3:42 PM

In the current business environment, employees aren't people they're "jobs". As long as they're treated as "jobs" why do you care where they sit as long as "the job" gets done? In fact, you shouldn't care WTF they're doing at all as long as "the job" gets done! Money goes in and work gets done. Simple, right?

Forcing employees into the office is just pretending. Companies that do this are like little girls having a tea party with their dolls. They can see the faces and pretend like their presence at the desk is somehow an important part of "the job".