The Republican return-to-office trend may be a way to reduce government staffing.
Being against remote work is a clear sign you suck as a leader so for the republicans to embrace it makes total sense.
I’m sure they have less scrupulous reasons as well, but one consequence of WFH has been higher rent and housing prices in smaller towns and suburbs. Highly educated professionals are choosing to leave their high-cost living situations in major cities and moving to lower cost homes in these areas and WFH. They still retain the income of big city jobs, so they can outbid anyone local, and it squeezes the supply.
I’m definitely not happy about that aspect, but I also can’t say I wouldn’t do the same thing in their position.
The issue isn’t higher paid from-home workers.
Its the leeches charging rent.
You found the right issue and blamed the wrong cause. Try again buddy I believe in you.
Here’s a hint… who raises the prices? It’s not a worker. Because THEY don’t own the property.
I just want to specify further that large corporations that own a shit ton of properties are to blame.
And before they were all local to the big city and the market squeezed to unaffordable for everyone including themselves. It is a good thing for that squeeze to be dissipated around the state/country.
Having that money less concentrated means that more local economies are propped up. As they still spend money locally regardless of where they earn it.
You’re angry about wage stagnation which is broadly a result of unchecked capitalism more than anything else.
