No government is likely to survive explaining what full industrial automation means to a society and then actually trying to implement it.

My job can’t be outsourced. It could be eliminated. But it can’t be outsourced. But I’m unconcerned. I only have 5 years until I retire at 55. And if they eliminated my job now I’d get a significant severance package.

How’s that for a little secret?

My industry is actively moving these types of jobs overseas. By identifying that your job could be remote, I think you are self-selecting to have your job outsourced. My employer isn’t currently rly doubt this but that could change with a change in ownership and/or economic circumstances.

The fact that this is downvoted so heavily shows how this sub is just turning into antiwork bullshit. I'm all for remote work and work for a company that is 100% remote. But with their savings of terminating the office lease they provide a budget for some shared coworking spaces for us to use, and I go in a few times a month. The last time I went in I had a conversation with someone from a completely other team and we hammered out a solution in an afternoon to a problem another team had been working on for weeks with no success. I'd have no reason to speak to this person other than they were next to me in the shared coworking space and the combination of their knowledge of the problem and my knowledge of some specialized data they didn't know existed caused us to be able to solve a problem that will likely save the company 6-7 figures/year.

Like yes as an employee I value being able to take breaks in my apartment rather than office, I value being able to do laundry while working, I value no commute time, etc. But everyone here seems to be under the impression that there is absolutely 0 value to being in the same office with other people you work with, and that's just plain false. I think going forward remote work will continue to be a thing, but I also think there will start to be a pay gap between remote and in-office work and the natural market will allow workers to decide which they want, do they want to be 100% remote? Or do they want to be hybrid or full-time in office and make more since they don't have to be competing with as many people from as many geographies and probably can at least be marginally more productive than the average 100% wfh employee?

I’m going to let you in on a little secret.

You working at the office does not prevent your employer IN ANY WAY from still trying to outsource your expensive ass.

Trust me I know, this was my line of work. We’d replace 7 local employees with some code and 2 people in Lithuania all the time. The fact that the 7 local employees worked in office changed absolutely nothing.

>They just want our money for parking, lunch, ect

This drives me up the wall because so many restaurants collapsed with the pandemic and never got back on their feet. Now their storefronts are either sitting empty or have been replaced by some chain that will make it maybe a year before moving on. Nothing like deciding to get takeout for lunch and your choices are between an overworked and understaffed Starbucks, Panera, or Chipotle (if you're lucky, could be just a McDonald's or Popeyes) because the family-owned Korean restaurant and an independent cafe/bakery had to close.

And rather than invest in building public transit, the people cities want to gouge us for parking and add enough cars to make their downtowns virtually unlivable.

It's genuinely depressing.

Considering you just bring enough solar panels to start the process, you can manufacture as many as you need and grow the operation if needed from there, without need for new ones from earth.

People who want things to go back to pre-COVID times seem kind of like a cult. If you challenge the ludicrous things, you get frowned at and labeled not a team player.

That's just it though, a robot that is fast enough and flexible enough to cook in a household kitchen can likely do everything else pretty effectively too. Low level household chores, done slowly, is something we're getting close to actually accomplishing.

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Why would corporate real estate collapsing be like 08? That was home mortgages, it actually affected many, many people. No one lives in the offices.

My issue with government subsidies is we are still paying for it. It's not actually "free" money. Throw in a curveball like a Republican getting back into the Whitehouse and nixing these subsidies, then the EV industry will stall again. Are EV's the future? Most likely, but we're still not even halfway through the early adopter bell curve of a 15% market share. We're currently sitting at about 6-7% so we still have a long way to go.

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Yep, it’s been blatantly obvious that it is a push by governments (federal, state, municipality) and business groups, plus wealthy owners of things, to keep things as they were. The benefit to the employees is not there in any job that successfully navigated full remote.

There are plenty of people who want to go in, and they’re totally welcome to it. I personally have lost all faith in my corporation given their thinking on the issue. I hesitated which word to use because thinking and logic aren’t actually part of the equation as no meeting rooms work correctly and technology at our offices is crap.

I basically go in for half a day, nope out and go work at home. They can eventually come at me if they want.

They could propose a tax for companies that allow workers to work remote. There is obviously a negative effect on the demand side of the economy so it’s understandable the government wants to return to a sustainable model.

BMW is in cahoots with Tesla right now to make some kind of ultra-cheap EV. Will be interesting to see what comes out of that. BMW bought up some kind of solid-state battery tech patents, so they have something up their German sleeves.

This is just wrong. Yes the government would like more people in the office spending more money in the city rather than the suburbs so they have more tax revenue. Yes they are specifically lobbying for government employees to have to come in for that exact reason. But you're claiming that "treasury" (note you don't indicate the actual position of the requester) is asking private businesses to come into the office more? And CEOs are just like "yeah sure it'll cost me employee retention and productivity and I'll have to continue to pay for office space but I'm ok losing money just to make you, Mr. or Mrs. Treasury, happy"? Like no that's not wtf happens. Unless the government is providing subsidies to companies that bring people back to the office, there's no way CEOs give a shit what the government has to say about remote work. And any such subsidy would not be secret it would be legislation or written into the tax code either of which would be publicly available to all of us. I note you didn't reference any.

The real answer is just Occam's razor. CEOs tend to be on the older side and want to micro manage too much. That's difficult in a remote setting and instead of being good leaders who measure long-term output, they prefer to measure "hard work" so stories of employees doing things like laundry and household chores rather than coffee gossip breaks make them think people who wfh don't work. But there are plenty of CEOs who aren't that way, and I happen to work for one. I joined post-covid but pre-covid there was already a strong "work from home, work whatever hours you want, as long as you get shit done we won't have a problem" culture. Post-covid they even sold their office and now they provide funding for people to work in coworking spaces if they want with that savings. I usually go in a few times per month because I do like seeing people and being able to meet face to face occasionally.

I've said this for quite a while: ALL COMPACT CARS SHOULD BE EVs. Leave the larger vehicles ICE for now. Compacts are used for commuting and daily driving, with the users expecting efficiency. It's the target market for EVs.

Pickup trucks and huge SUVs are what I consider the "forced EV" market- not quite ready for primetime but the buyers feel then need to jump on the bandwagon.

Once we get mass produced, widely purchased compact EVs down, the things we learned from building them would eventually spill over into larger vehicles.

Among other business owners. Everybody working from home has shifted our consumption patterns and it’s hurting some very rich people.

But it’s certainly not about productivity.

What company are you referring to? Not seeing anything on Reuters or a quick google search.

Thankfully they won't be starting from scratch ala No Man's Sky, they can bring reactors to supply energy till things get set up.

That's 800-850 credit score, yes. Average rates closer to 6-6.5%, but this isn't meaningful lol. We're discussing a car that doesn't exist

I think the really big thing would be a robot which can cook. No need to go to restaurant and pay a lot of money for decent food when you can ask your robot to make it for you when you come back from work.

Depends on the company. Mine has entire departments , entire sites in India, and 3rd shift IT was fully deployed and managed from there for years. They actually got the meatier work because so much was done outside of US office hours. It was no brainer to have them cover 1st and 2nd shift as well.

Leasing would cost even more, roughly $580/month for 3 years Leasing is more expensive in total. So yes, I'm right twice.