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    Elon Musk und Vivek Ramaswamy nennen Fernarbeit ein „Privileg der Covid-Ära“. Ökonomen sagen, dass es so bleiben wird


    Elon Musk und Vivek Ramaswamy nennen Fernarbeit ein „Privileg der Covid-Ära“. Ökonomen sagen, dass es so bleiben wird

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/02/musk-ramaswamy-call-remote-work-a-covid-era-privilege-some-economists-disagree.html

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    39 Comments

    1. BusinessAd5844 on

      These two don’t do jack shit, so who cares what they think.

    2. epichesgonnapuke on

      I’m starting to think that these guys are not looking out for our best interests?

    3. epichesgonnapuke on

      Anyone who is anti-remote work is either wealthy and does not understand the struggles of work/life balance or is just plain jealous because their job(s) do not support or allow Work From Home. Most normal people agree that it is better for the average office worker. I know I am more efficient while working from home and my day to day household stressors are lessoned.

    4. VladtheInhaler999 on

      We got one guy who grew up wealthy and received tax incentives and subsidies for his business and another who pumped up an Alzheimer’s drug stock and cashed out to make a billion lecturing others about work. Get bent.

    5. LexOdin on

      Musk and Ramaswamy are over privileged grifters who rely on a broken system to hoard wealth. Neither have innovatived or created anything, they’ve built their egregious wealth on other’s work. They’re symptoms of a dysfunctional society.

    6. TarheelFr06 on

      Says the guys who work remotely and rarely actually show up at the companies they allegedly run.

    7. Strange_Falcon4928 on

      This comes from two privileged, entitled douchebags who have never worked a day in their lives. Tech bros need to be knocked down from their pedestals.

    8. MarlinMaverick on

      Vivek needs to be deported, not for the color of his skin but for the content of his character.

    9. Opentobeingwrong on

      They’ll soon be installing cameras in peoples home to monitor them.

    10. AmrokMC on

      Vivek is a con-man who bought the rights to drugs that couldn’t pass FDA approval, released statements that they were incredible drugs to cure forms of dementia, and then dumped the stock just before the reports were released that the drug was garbage. No one should be listening to that con-man about anything.

    11. sugarlessdeathbear on

      Leasing buildings that aren’t being used is expensive, just saying.

    12. xBoatEng on

      Better headline: 

      Remote workers Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy call remote work a ‘Covid-era privilege.’ Economists say it’s here to stay

    13. Shaggy2772 on

      This is insane, as our office is easily getting 3-4 hours of lost work to commutes a day via remote work. Our company hasn’t just grown, it has flourished thanks to this.

    14. shoobe01 on

      I’ve been doing mostly remote for 15 years. I’ve had clients I’ve not been within a thousand miles of. People I’ve worked with for 12 years and never been in the same time zone.

      There’s an immense amount of data and a bunch that is not generally shared I’ve seen from specific organizations that remote work is almost uniformly more productive than in office, and employee retention is higher.

      On the other hand: feels and platitudes. Never a bit of data to say that in office has specific value.

      I can’t tell which is more important: control or real estate values.

    15. qarlthemade on

      well, just another car manufacturer who’s telling you to use your car most every day to go to work and back.

    16. NotGreatToys on

      Literally have been working remotely for 15 years, and will never work in an office for the rest of my life..COVID-era my ass. Fuck these miserable losers.

    17. donnerpartytaconight on

      Since we can still get Covid I suppose we are still in the Covid-Era.

    19. Matchboxx on

      I don’t understand why any for-profit business would be anti-remote work. You don’t have to pay rent on an office, electric for climate control and lighting, internet, snacks, water, janitorial…you save a bunch of money by putting those expenses onto *me.* Seriously, my utility bill almost doubled during COVID because I was home all the time. Why do you want me to sit in traffic just to come in, be grumpy, and cost you money when you can pay me the exact same to just absorb those costs?

    20. PollutionEither9519 on

      Elon can suck shit. If they try to make me come to the office, I’m fuckin gone.

    21. 753UDKM on

      It’s crazy to make people commute for a job that can be done from home. Do workers that can’t wfh because of actual job requirements really want wfh people adding to traffic out of supposed “fairness”?

    23. waterdaemon on

      Someone should help Elon out and record every hour he spends at Tesla’s Texas office.

    25. threehundredthousand on

      Interesting that two people who are never in the office feel like people who aren’t in the office aren’t productive. Elon collects titles and doesn’t do shit in those roles. He moved in with Trump and works on this stupid DOGE nonsense when he’s not shitposting on social media all day while he’s supposed to be CEO of three different companies.

    27. williamgman on

      Says Musk who’s currently working out of a Mar a Lago guest suite.

    28. arazamatazguy on

      Do they really think people don’t know how to slack off in the office?

    29. Tony2030 on

      Well….when you’re a shitty manager, mandated on-site work makes a lot of sense.

    30. RLoge85 on

      If people can get the work done at home… Then who gives a shit?

      My father worked for the government. He worked at home a lot of the time… Even went fishing during his work day. Nobody seemed to care a lot as long as the work got finished and that he was able to pick up a work related phone call from the cell phone provided to him .

    31. TheSavageDonut on

      Does this mean Trump will stop golfing and “working” from Mar a Lago?

      I mean I kind of expect the Orange One to bunker down at Mar a Lago, make everyone come to him, and they can catch him when he makes the turn from the 9th green to the 10th tee.

    32. AgeOfSmith on

      The fact is, remote work or hybrid has more benefits than forcing in office, such as:

      1. The best talent may not be local to you, or may not be affordable. Competing for talent in big cities is expensive. If someone can do the work from Idaho for less, why capture that savings?

      2. Real estate is expensive.

      3. It’s easier to revitalize middle America. Starting a company in Kansas City is easier if you can hire top tier talent from across the country.

      4. Happy workers produce more.

      There are little downsides

    33. Mormammon on

      These guy are so full of shit. Tesla is advertising right now for remote work engineers.

    35. Kitakitakita on

      so its not okay for Americans to work remotely, but they’re totally on board with Indians living abroad to work remotely

    36. wallace6464 on

      the federal telework they claim is covid era is from like 2009, I am being serious

    38. prosperousoctopus on

      Says the guy who has like 5 CEO jobs plus a government job. Is he in the office 40 hours a day? Fuck off. As if making billions off others hard work isn’t enough, he needs to make sure they dont get any privileges.

    39. Evil_phd on

      I can only imagine there’s two reasons why someone would be in favor of Return to Office.

      1. They have a significant real estate portfolio heavy in office buildings.

      2. They have no ability to make friends without a daily eight hours of forced proximity.

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