LOL: Zoom, the Company Whose Technology Allowed Laptop Liberals to Work From Home While Essential Workers Had to Brave Covid, Orders Its Stay-At-Home Workers to Come Into Work

Time for the Zoomers o peel their gigantic asses off their much-abused couches and report to f*****g work.

Telecommunications firm Zoom has ordered its employees to return to the office, reflecting the broader trend of employers restricting pandemic-era work flexibility requirements.

"We'll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently," the company stated. The company is seeking that employees work in the office at least two days per week, according to the BBC.

The firm's video conferencing services were instrumental in enabling worldwide remote work options during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company employees roughly 8,400 people. Roughly half of them work in the U.S.

In September 2022, roughly 1% of the company's workforce routinely appeared in the office while 75% worked remote and the remainder split the difference. In July of this year, however, only about 12% of employees were fully remote while another 29% were in hybrid arrangements.

I totally understand why workers want to work from home. I do myself, and I know other people who have been able to do things they could not -- like buying a piece of land far outside the city and raising their kids while still working in a city-based company -- if they were forced to come to work.

I think it's reasonable to press for work-for-home when feasible.

But after the school closings... I'm just a little sour on liberals demanding the right to work from home. I think we all are, even those of us who work from home.

And, also: As one might guess, people are less productive when they don't have bosses looking over their shoulders.

A study from economists at MIT and UCLA found productivity dropped when people worked from home.

The study observed groups of data-entry workers in India working from home and from the office.

People who worked from home saw their productivity fall by 18%, the researchers said.

The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

I'm not kidding.

posted by Ace at 03:59 PM

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