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

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

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

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

7. 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. 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.

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

10. Better headline: 

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. When was the last time those two idiots worked in person?

15. 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?

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

17. 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”?

18. Why the fuck is Elon parading his son everywhere now?

19. Been remote since 2011… no idea what they’re talking about.

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

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

22. 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 .

23. 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

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

25. 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.

26. Nah, it’s none of your fucking business where people work. Fuck off you unelected parasites. 

27. I don’t understand the push back on remote work. I have worked remotely for 10 years. I’m much more efficient remotely than if I worked in an office.

28. I work for a private medical practice. In January 2020, our IT staff saw the writing on the wall and bought a bunch of laptops and started setting them up. In the middle of March, we sent our coding and billing crew home with all of these new laptops. I haven’t seen them since then and we haven’t had anyone quit. We’ll probably sell our office building in the next year or two because we don’t need anything that big anymore. Each of us doctors have home workstations to work from home. This is the new normal.

29. 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.

30. I hope economists are right! Elon and Vivek are just flat out wrong here.

    Remote work has been proven to improve productivity. It is also tremendously beneficial for employees financial and mental health. It is much better for the environment, many fewer cars on the roads causing pollution and congestion, less fossil fuels used for gasoline, etc.

    It’s just a win/win/win.

31. Wfh has allowed me to see my kid 25% more than I would working in an office. There is more to life than work. Fuck billionaires

32. Tax payers save huge money on government employees working from home. Doesn’t musk know this as the head of DOGE?

33. What exactly is Vivek’s job?

34. those 2 talking about “privilege” is rich

35. Remote work is the ONE thing the working class has gotten since Regan and they’re trying like hell to get it back. Fuck you, I’m not going back into an office.

36. I work at the IRS and we were already only going in 1 day a week before COVID. Some got to stay on full wfh after the pandemic.

    But now we’re going to like 50% in the office, or worse? That’s worse than before COVID. In my area, we definitely don’t have the space to even handle that, so it will be a massive mess and waste a lot of taxpayer’s money.

37. Listen to these fucking gilded clowns running around in their private jets all day, eating the best food, access to any drug they want, buying their way into the Oval Office with hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, telling *us* we’re “privileged” for working remotely (and wanting to take that away).

    Fuck these absolute clowns. And fuck everyone who voted for this shit show.

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