02-03-2025, 07:01 PM
(02-03-2025, 12:04 PM)plam Wrote: Because it is a fundamentally pro-CEO thing to say that workers have none of the power and they have to work downtown because the boss says so. It is not the responsibility of workers to make sure that the businesses that were built to serve the lunch crowd can continue to operate. Creative destruction means that you have to change your business model sometimes. And it is much better for people in general to have flexibility about when they are working in the office.
Ultimately, the company offers a job to a potential employee, with certain compensation and certain working conditions (which have traditionally involved working in the office). The potential employee then has the ability to decide whether to accept or not. Once employment has started, if the working conditions change (or don't change) or compensation changes (or doesn't change), the employee is able to resign at any time, with no financial consequences (the employer can also terminate but is bound by labour law and common law to provide termination/separation pay in most cases).
So, if the company decides that work needs to be in the office three, four or five days a week, they are able to leave, either individually or en masse. The employer can weigh this risk in balance with whatever benefits they expect to get from working in the office.
That's just reality, not pro-CEO or pro-worker.