They’ve got a hell of a buried lede in the article:
> City leaders embrace a different philosophy
In Philadelphia, city officials acknowledged the return-to-office decision wasn’t driven by concerns about productivity. Rather, it was in pursuit of what they called a leadership philosophy.
> Mayor Parker has cited the many thousands of city employees — sanitation workers, social workers, the water department — who never had the ability to work from home.
> “I need us all right now to make a sacrifice for our city,” she said at a press conference this summer.
> Parker has also made clear she wants the city’s return-to-office plan to be a model for private-sector employers, part of her effort to make a more economically vibrant Philadelphia.
> “That’s the ultimate goal,” she said.
As in, there’s no pretending that it’s about better productivity in-person, but rather they want to force people back in so that they can prop up the companies whose business model won’t survive without people being compelled to work downtown.
Gotta make sure that those horse buggy switch makers stay afloat!
ilovefuckingpenguins on
It’s a free market. If you don’t like RTO, go find a remote job
Heidrekk on
In my city, the mayor is trying to sell the idea of getting companies back to the downtown core 5 days a week (as many mayors are doing).
Its disconcerting how overtly the logic is about bailing out failing business in the downtown core and how ambiguous and secondary any notion of productivity is. Presumably because if you were talking about productivity you’d have to at least entertain the idea that not every job works the same. In the meantime traffic congestion is some of the worst in the world and transit is literally falling apart at the seams.
Something as paltry as getting to raise your kids doesn’t even enter in the discussion anymore. No worries because disproportionate workload is not something that tends to put women off from having kids, right
JulieAlexand on
It’s a bold move to use the return-to-office plan as a template for others; the impact of such decisions can ripple through the entire workforce.
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They’ve got a hell of a buried lede in the article:
> City leaders embrace a different philosophy
In Philadelphia, city officials acknowledged the return-to-office decision wasn’t driven by concerns about productivity. Rather, it was in pursuit of what they called a leadership philosophy.
> Mayor Parker has cited the many thousands of city employees — sanitation workers, social workers, the water department — who never had the ability to work from home.
> “I need us all right now to make a sacrifice for our city,” she said at a press conference this summer.
> Parker has also made clear she wants the city’s return-to-office plan to be a model for private-sector employers, part of her effort to make a more economically vibrant Philadelphia.
> “That’s the ultimate goal,” she said.
As in, there’s no pretending that it’s about better productivity in-person, but rather they want to force people back in so that they can prop up the companies whose business model won’t survive without people being compelled to work downtown.
Gotta make sure that those horse buggy switch makers stay afloat!
It’s a free market. If you don’t like RTO, go find a remote job
In my city, the mayor is trying to sell the idea of getting companies back to the downtown core 5 days a week (as many mayors are doing).
Its disconcerting how overtly the logic is about bailing out failing business in the downtown core and how ambiguous and secondary any notion of productivity is. Presumably because if you were talking about productivity you’d have to at least entertain the idea that not every job works the same. In the meantime traffic congestion is some of the worst in the world and transit is literally falling apart at the seams.
Something as paltry as getting to raise your kids doesn’t even enter in the discussion anymore. No worries because disproportionate workload is not something that tends to put women off from having kids, right
It’s a bold move to use the return-to-office plan as a template for others; the impact of such decisions can ripple through the entire workforce.