Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’

NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BaronVonBort@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Micromanagers and building owners

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  • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep all those countless hours of travel, gallons of gas, car repairs, transit fares, etc we’ve been covering out of pocket our whole working lives has been a free subsidy to commercial real estate companies.

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    • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It really is absurd.

      I'm returning to the job market, and I'm honestly thinking of getting a shitty job within cycling distance, rather than be forced into commuting again.

      I honestly don't know how much more they'd have to offer me, just to force me back in my car. It certainly won't be nothing.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the biggest winner, the people want to do soft layoffs

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Board rooms full of people heavily invested in commercial real estate.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have very real examples of this being the case where I am. There’s a lot of real estate that if it falls in value it materially impacts the exec leadership. No wonder they are so keen to save Pret.

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• Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People who have investments in:
  • corporate real estate and companies like Blackrock, Concord Pacific and Amazon who own billions of dollars of corporate real estate.
  • downtown coffee shops that exist to ripoff serve otherwise stranded office workers.
  • car and oil companies because all that rush hour traffic makes them money.
  • road construction companies since rush hour traffic jams means easy bribing governments into paying billions for complex and frequently experimental road enhancements.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot the governments who gave Amazon $5 billion in subsidies to have offices in their jurisdictions: https://qz.com/amazon-s-5-billion-discount-see-all-its-tax-cuts-and-1849821611

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    • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here's a fun article from pre-covid about Amazon buying Vancouver's old post office building. They gutted the historic building and left only the outer shell.

      https://vancouversun.com/business/commercial-real-estate/commercial-real-estate-amazon-to-take-over-entire-former-canada-post-building

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