There's no way this makes sense- you are saving the company money if they don't pay for you to have an office and office equipment and you pay for your internet - hopefully the company provides a cell phone.

Agreed. And in these days of "quiet quitting", a lot of companies are in for a (very) rude awakening.

Edited to add: many of those companies have real estate "issues". They've contracted to rent however many thousand square feet of office space and it's not being used.

'Employees will just say no': Bosses pushing staff back to the office could be fighting a losing battle
Staff are used to remote work, have different expectations about work-life balance and are now factoring in cost of inflation

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boss David Solomon has long been a critic of remote work, describing the pandemic-related shift once as “an aberration.” This week he called time on the practice, scrapping most of the bank’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions for United States employees in a bid to get as many as possible back into the office.

For more than two years companies around the world embraced remote work and hybrid home-office arrangements as infections surged and ...

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/emplo ... ing-battle

Bringing people back to the office has no effect on the leases- they were already paying that when people were there and when they were not. People in the space or empty space- they are still stuck with their leases until they run out.

True - but I'm sure that their boards are going to be asking about it.

And it's not just the leases. Companies spend millions of dollars building out office space - they've got to justify that expense. And if the building is empty .....

Indians, Africans, etc. will work remotely at half the cost. That kind of shyte brought the Roman and British Empires crashing down.

There are any number of companies whose back office functions have been moved to places like Bangalore.

Empires that can't afford themselves. Happened to the Soviets and now it's happening to us.

Not sure this qualifies as a "trend" yet but ....

Move over, quiet quitting — frugality is the latest trend in work-life balance
Alice Kantor

Call it spending less to work less.

The pandemic-fueled generational shift in attitudes toward work has led to the Great Resignation, the antiwork movement and now quiet quitting. But the quest for better work-life balance is also shedding new light on an old strategy: accepting lower pay for a less-demanding job.

It’s a move that requires adopters to carefully assess their budgets and forego some luxuries, but they say it’s well worth the tradeoffs.

Take Marie Crespin. Living more frugally was a sacrifice she made so she could leave a stressful job in human resources and pursue web design. The 31-year-old in Nantes, France, now earns about 1,600 euros (US$1,608) a month, down from 2,300 euros in her HR job.

It’s meant fewer meals out and wearing second-hand clothes. It has also allowed her to cut her workweek in half, from 40 hours to 20 or 25.

“Work shouldn’t be the most important thing in your life,” Crespin said. “Having the freedom to ...

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/move-over-q ... -1.1816792

A July survey by online job site FlexJobs found that nearly two-thirds of respondents would take a pay cut to improve their work-life balance.

# 2 son just got a serious raise.