The global pandemic resulted in a surge in remote working, and now ‘Work From Home’ (WFH) policy has become the latest plaything for the political class.
It is revealing how the deeply entrenched interests in promoting mass public transport, are lending their voices to the anti-WFH chorus. Ironically WFH is actually the ultimate win-win for the CLAIMED main justification in our time for mass public transport, that is savings in energy consumption and emissions versus private automobiles. There was a great book decades ago called "CBD, Inc" specifically about the rent-seeking approaches of vested interests in CBD property. Obviously what they desire is for employment and amenities to be concentrated in CBD's and prevented by any means possible, from dispersing elsewhere. Going along with this, is a general war on automobility and promotion of mass public transport with patterns focused on travel to and from the CBD. Bad faith about CO2 emissions quickly became a primary pretext of these interests. Nowhere is this bad faith now more evident, than in the war on WFH. Their game was riddled with bad faith anyway, as dispersion of employment and the resulting co-location options has been a clear winner in urban economies where Central Planning does not obstruct the market from evolving these co-location efficiencies. BTW it is unnecessary for CBD property investors everywhere to be participants in this game; a few big global investors have so much to gain that they are more than willing to play sugar daddy to the fanatical environmentalists and other activists who know that the Best Way For The Proles To Live, is living in Borg cubes and riding trains.
If you're an employer and you don't trust your employees, that's on you. If you're an employee and your boss is a ballbreaker, find a different job. Notice how the government isn't and shouldn't be involved there?
Perhaps, in the interest of give & take, employees could be fitted with ankle monitors just to reassure employers that they aren't off shopping or on the golf course when they should be working.
It is revealing how the deeply entrenched interests in promoting mass public transport, are lending their voices to the anti-WFH chorus. Ironically WFH is actually the ultimate win-win for the CLAIMED main justification in our time for mass public transport, that is savings in energy consumption and emissions versus private automobiles. There was a great book decades ago called "CBD, Inc" specifically about the rent-seeking approaches of vested interests in CBD property. Obviously what they desire is for employment and amenities to be concentrated in CBD's and prevented by any means possible, from dispersing elsewhere. Going along with this, is a general war on automobility and promotion of mass public transport with patterns focused on travel to and from the CBD. Bad faith about CO2 emissions quickly became a primary pretext of these interests. Nowhere is this bad faith now more evident, than in the war on WFH. Their game was riddled with bad faith anyway, as dispersion of employment and the resulting co-location options has been a clear winner in urban economies where Central Planning does not obstruct the market from evolving these co-location efficiencies. BTW it is unnecessary for CBD property investors everywhere to be participants in this game; a few big global investors have so much to gain that they are more than willing to play sugar daddy to the fanatical environmentalists and other activists who know that the Best Way For The Proles To Live, is living in Borg cubes and riding trains.
If you're an employer and you don't trust your employees, that's on you. If you're an employee and your boss is a ballbreaker, find a different job. Notice how the government isn't and shouldn't be involved there?
Perhaps, in the interest of give & take, employees could be fitted with ankle monitors just to reassure employers that they aren't off shopping or on the golf course when they should be working.