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Originally Posted by dboakland
That's deeply cynical but probably true.
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Yep, it's both.
It's funny how employers in "tech" were tripping over themselves 10 years ago to offer in-office "perks" like food, laundry service, happy hours, games, massages, gym, bike allowance, transit reimbursement, even childcare... in an effort to keep employees working long past the tradtional 9-5.
And tech workers responded to all of this by signaling that they really don't need nor want to actually be there anyway.
So, many higher ups said, "Great, we never wanted to pay for all of this shit anyway... we only offered it in trying to attract a set of young-ish workers who had a unique skillset... but now that skillset ain't all that unique, so good, stay the hell home and do the work for us. We'll be here making the decisions."
This is just a step. Long-standing aspects of corporate culture have become "flexible" over the past couple decades... time, benefits, office... and this has
not been driven by the employee, although it has been deftly positioned that way. Office hours have become flex-time. Sick and vacation time (and even Holiday, in some cases) has morphed into PTO, or even WFH when ill. Robust health coverage into including FSAs. Company phones into a standard monthly reimbursement. It goes on and on, but is especially creeping into the all-important 'salary and benefits' part of working for a company.