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I suspect there a bit of a civil war in corporate upper management right now over work from home. Some people probably love it, it makes it easier to pull talent in since you're not limited to people who live/can move to the area your company is, and you can employ people in locations with lower cost of living and justify paying them less. Meanwhile other middle managers fucking hate it cuz they can't be little tyrants and it makes it increasingly obvious that they're redundant.
In videogame companies one of the tactics I saw employers use is to put the offices in the middle of fucking nowhere then have people move to the tiny ass out of the way location in buttfuck nowhere to work. This forces them into a state of 24/7 work because they often share housing with other employees and have literally nothing else to do in the area except socialise with one another. Having them living with each other also creates social pressures on them all about leaving and potentially fucking over housemates with debts or bills they can't afford.
The outcome of this is that it functionally makes their entire lives revolve around work.
Psudo company town shit.
Yeah it's insidious. Really incredibly unhealthy for the employees and causes massive burnout in the first 1 or 2 years. The thing is that the employees that then survive this shit are usually the most indoctrinated so they're easiest to control and build toxic corporate work cultures around.
so that's why Epic (not the video game company) only hires in Madison WI
Also, some of them have commercial real estate portfolios and those are damaged by working from home
not to mention our entire economy depends on the real estate bubble and this is killing it