"...controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy..."

Ha.

Leave it to the media to define what's controversial and what's not

 

"...controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy..."

Ha.

Snort.

 

Leave it to the media to define what's controversial and what's not

But it's the medias job to create controversy.

 

But it's the medias job to create controversy.

So that they can draw attention to non-existent problems so they can advertise non-essential products ...

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...office-mandate-is-backdoor-layoff-2024-11-05/
Amazon CEO denies full in-office mandate is 'backdoor layoff'

Workers who are consistently not in compliance have been told they will be "voluntarily resigning" and locked out of company computers.
"A number of people I've seen theorized that the reason we were doing this is, it's a backdoor layoff, or we made some sort of deal with city or cities," said Jassy, according to a transcript of the meeting reviewed by Reuters.
"I can tell you both of those are not true. You know, this was not a cost play for us. This is very much about our culture and strengthening our culture," he said.

 

...mandate is 'backdoor layoff'...

I'm OK with that.

No severance!

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-...-coffee-seeking-to-stem-declining-morale.html
Intel brings back workers’ free coffee, seeking to stem morale decline

Intel declined comment. The company did not resume offering free fruit, another perk eliminated last summer.

 

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https://www.globenewswire.com/news-...im-Chief-Executive-Officer-and-President.html
Ganesh Moorthy Retiring as Chief Executive Officer and President of Microchip Technology Incorporated; Steve Sanghi Appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer and President

 

Marc Andreessen doesn’t want to see anyone’s ‘whole self’ at work: ‘Act like a professional and a grownup’

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Andreessen—reportedly worth almost $2 billion per Forbes—reposted the comment, adding, "The one thing you should never, ever, ever do is bring your full self. Leave your full self at home where it belongs and act like a professional and a grownup at work and in public."

 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ng-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/
Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study

There are limits to the study, however. The researchers noted that the study "cannot draw causal inferences based on our setting." Further, smaller firms and firms outside of the high-tech and financial industries may show different results. Although not mentioned in the report, relying on data from a social media platform could also yield inaccuracies, and the number of skills listed on a LinkedIn profile may not accurately depict a worker's skill level.

I can understand in some cases. This is the daily grind walking to work in downtown Portland.

 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ng-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/
Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study


I can understand in some cases. This is the daily grind walking to work in downtown Portland.

I'll be happy when we lose some of our best civil servants.

 

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?


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By the time Renata Leo’s parents were 31, the age she is now, they had gotten married, purchased a home and had her. Yet she is still sleeping in her childhood bedroom, gazing at the same unicorn wallpaper put up before she was born.

“Redecorating would mean accepting that I’m not leaving,” says Leo, who has been back home in Glassboro, N.J., since graduating college in 2015 with $20,000 in student-loan debt.

 

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says Leo, who has been back home in Glassboro, N.J., since graduating college in 2015 with $20,000 in student-loan debt.

Graduating college with what degree? Daydreaming? We're supposed to sympathize with her because she had $20k in student loan debt. If she devoted $1/hr of her pay from a full-time job to paying toward the principal, she'd already be out of debt. If she just applied $8/day, five days a week, it would be gone. Even working fast-food she should be able to do that, especially since she's still living at home!

 

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Alas ... the average life expectancy in the US was only 35 years back then

 

Alas ... the average life expectancy in the US was only 35 years back then

That doesn't mean people lived to 35 and died.

Must of the impact to life expectancy was infant mortality and young children.

There were old people.

We've discussed this in a thread in the past.

 

If you achieved 20 years, you had a pretty good chance of living into your 80s.

Age at death:

James Monroe, 73
Aaron Burr, 80
Alexander Hamilton, 49 (death by duel)
James Madison, 85
Thomas Jefferson, 83
John Adams, 90
Paul Revere, 83
George Washington, 67

 

Also, affluent people tend to live longer.

(unless you are shot in the back by some coward)

 

Also, affluent people tend to live longer.

(unless you are shot in the back by some coward)

Back then, it was more a function of diet than anything else.

Doctors and medicine were sketchy. There were no immunizations or antibiotics for anyone, regardless of wealth, and the cause of disease in general was very much misunderstood.

I'd wager that more were killed from surgery than saved by it.

Edit: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/common-diseases-18th-and-19th-century