Idk why, but this reminds me of the following joke:
QA walks into a bar, orders 1 beer, orders 999999 beers, orders -1 beer, orders dywbakdi beers.
A customer walks in, asks where the bathroom is and the building bursts into flames.
Literally find a payphone, pick it up, call 911 and say there's a group of dangerous looking masked individuals at (name of location), and I'm scared that it's not safe here.
Then immediately drop the phone and walk away. It seems rude but if you hang up or stop responding the correct action on the 911 operators side is to expect the worst and literally send everyone to that location, lights and sirens.
I stopped playing AC when zero punctuation pointed out that the game was entirely useless gofer quests. Go over there and listen to x lines of dialog only up go back and listen to y lines of dialog only to return to the first person and listen to more..... And these locations were not near eachother. It was a time sink that had little point to it.
Other games use similar mechanics at times but often not with characters that are so far apart and/or not without some kind of fast travel system that can make the whole process faster.
I get what they were trying to do; that specific game had new movement mechanics that I completely ignored and just wanted to get on with it. The idea was that you were supposed to learn the new mechanics while traveling between places....
The whole thing just set me off and I stopped playing any and all AC games beyond that point. I'll probably go back and play AC 1, maybe 2 again.... But the rest... Idk if I'll ever touch them.
Because America put a deranged convict into, what is arguably the most powerful position in the world. Congress won't challenge him, so he's running amok while his party turns a blind eye to the obvious human rights violations that are constantly happening.
The whole "worst of the worst" line for who that are deporting is, and always has been a lie. They just want POCs to suffer and die because they're Nazis.
That quote is funny because the statement is clearly indicating that they are pro-choice.
In business though, workers are not often given a choice. You either work from the office, work x days in office and y days from home (hybrid), or only work from home.
90% of the employers that I am aware of, give one of these, maybe two (usually in office and hybrid) as options; usually only one option (in office).
A few wfh companies I've worked for do all wfh, which is great for me, but anyone who wants to work from an office, can't.
By giving workers a real choice, you open the company up to a much larger pool of people who are willing/able to do the job. If they're local to an office and want to be in office, cool, set it up. If they're not but they prefer wfh, cool, set it up.
In my experience nearly zero employers provide flexible work options. It's usually one of the three, and if you're lucky, two of the three. It is exceedingly rare to be given all three choices.
The same way I don't hate Christianity but most Christians drive me up a wall.
The concepts can be good, valid and even the best option in some cases, but the way it's weilded can be dramatically different based on the person wielding it.
So, yes, we can see electromagnetic waves.... Just, only a very small segment of them.
How wrong he was. Now we use EM daily for everything.... Communicating via Wi-Fi, listening to music in the car (FM broadcast), or via Bluetooth and using LTE... Even heating our food. Not to mention medical applications like X-rays...
There's a shitload of stuff we use EM for without even thinking. It's all around us, all the time, like the matrix. I love EM science.
This goes to show you that, just because someone discovered a thing, doesn't mean that they have any idea what to do with that discovery, or that the discoveries end there....
Before, reality was just what humans could touch, smell, see, and hear, but after the publication of the charged electromagnetic spectrum, we now know that what we can touch, smell, see, and hear, is less than one-millionth.
It also makes employees wealthier.... Think of all the money you flush down the drain making your car move from home to the office and back again.... Just that alone is easily thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars per year, depending on your vehicle and type of fuel, efficiency, etc.
Everyone wins except the real estate owners and their stakeholders, which, as you astutely pointed out, are the business owners. Rent is a way for them to essentially launder money into their own pockets. They legitimately pay their office rent, and a chunk of that comes back to them in dividends from the land owning company.
I both agree and disagree with the conclusions in the title....
I agree that for many people, they're happier, and likely more productive, working from home.
I would also agree that for many different people, working from an office makes them happier/more productive.
It entirely depends on the job, who you are, and the work culture. Some places are toxic and working from home to get away from it is helpful for job satisfaction. I've known people who simply focus better when they're at the office since they have a lot of distractions at home. I know for me, the opposite is true. at home, I'm in control and can limit exposure to distractions, and I can be more productive, more comfortable and overall less unhappy with my job.
IMO, this discussion is less about what companies want, whether work from home or hybrid, or in office .... The main conclusion that we should be driving home is that different people need different environments to do their best work, and be happiest with their particular job. To put it simply: workers need to be able to choose.
Until we're at the stage where employers care less about how, and where you do the work, and they care more about the work getting done.... We're going to keep going back and forth on this.
I like to work from home. That's me.
I know people who prefer to work from an office. There's plenty of people who feel they work best from the office.
There's plenty of people that need to mix between home and office work.
Bluntly: as long as you can do the work from where you're working, and how you're working, the rest should be flexible. We're (presumably) adults and professionals. If we're given work and we're being paid to do the work, then we will do the work. We don't need to be constantly supervised by middle management like toddlers.
The fact is that the reality is thinly veiled. They know that if they were not being paid to be there to interview me, they wouldn't be, but they "tow the company line" anyways. I mirror the same back at them.... Oh yeah, profits uh huh, shareholders, yeah, totally.
They know I don't care about any of that, but if you're not willing to at least try to pretend, then it demonstrates that you lack the diplomatic skill to hear, understand, and feedback the horseshit that the company will peddle, and you'll be able to survive all the HR, managerial, team building nonsense they're going to throw at you while you're there.
They know you don't care and just want the paycheque, because that's what they want too. Nobody needs to say it.
Idk why, but this reminds me of the following joke:
QA walks into a bar, orders 1 beer, orders 999999 beers, orders -1 beer, orders dywbakdi beers. A customer walks in, asks where the bathroom is and the building bursts into flames.