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Both! The first person quoted in it (and whose photo graces the story) is a restauranteur. The third is a residential landlord.
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Whenever RTO is brought up on LinkedIn, the same people who plead the case of the poor abandoned baristas, janitors, and independent restaurants are also the same people who pitch a fit whenever the topic of increasing minimum wage comes up. It’s not a Venn diagram; it’s one circle.
Betteridge’s Law…
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If Target are forced by the whiney realestate jerk to bring their workers back because his restaurant clients are not seeing as many customers, they should reward their workers for returning to the office with free coffee, and a low cost in-house cafeteria.
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The solution has been staring us in the face, all along!
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I assume this is where the Federal workforce requirement to work 2 days a pay period in the office comes from. Presumably, if you do that, you’re not really a remote worker but in the office enough days.
This avoids needing to increase the number who are approved for full time remote work. No need to change their tax withholding or reporting to a different jurisdiction than the office location.
The company I work for classifies us differently if we’re in the office more or less than 28 days a year I think. They allow for both though and have a robust remote work policy.
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Do you think he might need to re-read Who Moved My Cheese??
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If I didn’t take leftovers for lunch every day, we’d be wasting a ton of food.
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To quote a great man: “If I were human, I believe my response would be “Go to hell.” … If I were human.”
I tend to look at it as going back to our roots. I’m older than many here, and I remember a time when we didn’t have a thousand different options for eat-in and takeaway and ate most meals at home. Even before pandemic, my family has moved in that direction. On one hand, it’s economic-- my large family can easily spend €200 just on a quick lunch out at our local pho joint or the raclette place. While we can currently afford it, it’s still a concern, and moreso since I’m heading into retirement.
And I like being able to assure that my family is eating as healthy as we can. I do most of the cooking here. I enjoy it, and I’m good at it. And during pandemic, I’ve gotten a lot better. And I’m looking forward to getting even better at it in retirement. It helps that French school cuisine is pretty good. Mystery meat and steam tables aren’t really a thing here.
We still eat out, especially during the summer and when the kids are on school holiday. But not every day. Supporting local businesses, including restaurants, is important and fun. But it doesn’t need to be an everyday thing.
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They also seem to forget that this is all part of the cycle of capitalism. They’re all in favour of capitalism when they’re milking it for all they can get, but when the wheel turns, as it ALWAYS does, they cry and whine like toddlers.
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While downtown restaurants are suffering, suburban restaurants are now doing just fine, as people still like to eat out.
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This may seem revolutionary, but how about we fix the underlying problems like redesign zoning to make city tax bases not be so reliant on downtowns and also I do know… subsidize people who don’t have money that may actually lose money from a single source of income (e.g. waitstaff, cooks, cleaning, mom and pop business owners who are NOT giant chains, etc.) in a specific location.
If your the management of a chain in some downtown area that’s struggling… maybe either throw money into reorganizing your business model to help grow the downtown or… wait until some venture capital hands you cash to shut your shit down and move on to your next thing because you know it will happen.
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