the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
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"I want you here where I can tell you what to do and watch you do it but I also want to replace you with a machine."
The real reasons:
1. "Back to the office" is a covert way to get women with children to resign.Affordable childcare is very hard to find because it's a high exposure job (covid, measles, etc) thanks to RFK's antivaxxers.
2. Men don't want to change the toner in the printer, plan staff events, tidy the bathrooms, wash their coffee cups, or make coffee for the team.
All that "invisible work" that women in the workplace are expected to do.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240313-invisible-emotional-labour-women-in-workplace1/
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The real reasons:
1. "Back to the office" is a covert way to get women with children to resign.Affordable childcare is very hard to find because it's a high exposure job (covid, measles, etc) thanks to RFK's antivaxxers.
2. Men don't want to change the toner in the printer, plan staff events, tidy the bathrooms, wash their coffee cups, or make coffee for the team.
All that "invisible work" that women in the workplace are expected to do.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240313-invisible-emotional-labour-women-in-workplace1/
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3. Commercial leasing is collapsing.
'Office is toxic': Cranes disappear nationwide as commercial real estate crunch hits downtowns | Fortune
Just look at Chicago, where there was only one groundbreaking on an office building last year, with zero expected in 2024.
Fortune (fortune.com)
How Remote Work Has Affected Real Estate Values
The remote working boom that was seen during the pandemic has undoubtedly changed how we work in a fundamental way. New research explores what impact it has had on the corporate real estate market.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
4. Fossil fuel industry wants long commutes.
Employees want commute expenses covered in exchange for office return
Majority also want extra pay for RTW: Survey
Human Resources Director (www.hcamag.com)
5. Municipal revenue from traffic enforcement collapsed. Traffic fines are a tax on commuters.
6. AI is a threat to hang over worker's heads for wage suppression & mass layoffs.
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3. Commercial leasing is collapsing.
'Office is toxic': Cranes disappear nationwide as commercial real estate crunch hits downtowns | Fortune
Just look at Chicago, where there was only one groundbreaking on an office building last year, with zero expected in 2024.
Fortune (fortune.com)
How Remote Work Has Affected Real Estate Values
The remote working boom that was seen during the pandemic has undoubtedly changed how we work in a fundamental way. New research explores what impact it has had on the corporate real estate market.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
4. Fossil fuel industry wants long commutes.
Employees want commute expenses covered in exchange for office return
Majority also want extra pay for RTW: Survey
Human Resources Director (www.hcamag.com)
5. Municipal revenue from traffic enforcement collapsed. Traffic fines are a tax on commuters.
6. AI is a threat to hang over worker's heads for wage suppression & mass layoffs.
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"Don't ask for a cost of living increase to your salaries or we will AI your job."
Mutual Disadvantage - American Compass
Why predatory investment and labor suppression are a poor long-term strategy.
American Compass (americancompass.org)
How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it
How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.
Equitable Growth (equitablegrowth.org)
The (Other) Southern Strategy
America has experimented with suppressing wages to attract industrial investment. It only paved the way for offshoring that investment and technology.
American Compass (americancompass.org)
"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."
(www.bloodinthemachine.com)
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the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
@SecureOwl such a good point
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
@SecureOwl Where in Ohio? Asking for static-electricity-prone friends in Ohio.
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@SecureOwl Thank you very much.
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the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
The server is in Saudi Arabia
A place where they execute dissidents.
Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there
Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)
Microsoft Confirms Saudi Arabia Datacenter Region Available for Customers to Run Cloud Workloads from Q4 2026 - Source EMEA
Microsoft today confirmed that customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Saudi Arabia East datacenter region from Q4 2026, marking a major milestone in the company’s long-term investment in the country and its commitment to supporting Saudi Arabia’s digital and AI ambitions under Vision 2030.
Source EMEA (news.microsoft.com)
Big Tech is building AI in the desert. The water may not last
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are expanding in the Gulf, where AI data centers could use 426B liters of water a year by 2030.
Rest of World (restofworld.org)
These jobs could have been American jobs
https://www.intelligentcio.com/me/2023/12/15/oracle-will-train-50000-saudi-nationals-in-artificial-intelligence-and-other-latest-digital-technologies/
Microsoft accelerates AI skilling in Saudi Arabia, helping 3 million people acquire AI skills by 2030 - Source EMEA
Microsoft today announced a significant expansion of its AI skilling efforts in Saudi Arabia, building on the scale and impact of work delivered to date in support of Vision 2030 workforce priorities. Announced at the Microsoft AI Tour Riyadh, the company outlined its ambition to help a further three million people across the Kingdom acquire AI skills by 2030, reinforcing its long-term commitment to developing future-ready talent and enabling economic growth at scale.
Source EMEA (news.microsoft.com)
Saudi Arabia is the new Russian Internet Research Agency
https://www.wpr.org/news/racially-targeted-voter-suppression-ads-online-2016-election-turnout-wisconsin
Russia interfered in U.S. election, likely at Putin's behest, intelligence report says | CBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin knew of and likely directed a Russian effort to manipulate the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign to benefit former president Donald Trump with "misleading or unsubstantiated allegations" against challenger Joe Biden, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
@SecureOwl I had this same thought earlier this week. Great minds!
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@SecureOwl Where in Ohio? Asking for static-electricity-prone friends in Ohio.
@faoluin @SecureOwl probably the new data centers east of Columbus.
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the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @SecureOwl with respect, what about onion
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @SecureOwl with respect, what about onion
