Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.

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      I’d also work 60 hours a week if I could count getting chauffeured around and eating lunches with people as “work”

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        My dad had a family friend that was CEO that claimed he worked 80 hours a week. He pulled out a calendar, and not only was it closer to 50-60, about 6-10 of those hours were golf business meetings it was funny. I doubt he would have laughed if one of his workers were calling him out though…

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          Imo being out with friends and being out with business partners are two totally different states. I can relax with friends, but being at work functions (even if I consider the co-workers I’m with friends) I have to be “on” and I just end up exhausted, even if I end up doing exactly the same thing.

          I wouldn’t underestimate the psychological aspect, especially when you have to watch what you say more often than around friends

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      To be fair I didn’t link it directly in my comment (though I doubt it would’ve changed the outcome). Thanks for tracking that down for me, though!

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      Lemmy is occupied by 13 year olds who dream of working zero days in their life.