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Here's a rare sight: a CEO of a large company has spoken out in support of remote work for employees, slamming those firms that drag staff back into the office against their will. Dropbox boss Drew Houston compared RTO mandates to trying to force people back into malls and movie theaters.

Speaking on an episode of Fortune's "Leadership Next" podcast, Houston said what most people have long thought: that returning to the office is a waste of time and money when employees can do exactly the same tasks at home.

"We can be a lot less dumb than forcing people back into a car three days a week or whatever, to literally be back on the same Zoom meeting they would have been at home," he said. "There's a better way to do this."

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they don't want to unwind from RE if they are board members on RE companies as well as the RTO-mandate company. We should never have allowed people to be board members in two busineses.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We should never have allowed people to be board members in two busineses.

Ding ding ding!

Correct!

But then we couldn't capitalism as hard, so... I'm sorry but that issue is a political non-starter.

... Where I grew up, literally every single city council board member just also ran a real estate holding company at the same time.

I figured out as a literal child that this was why our local government only made nonsensical spending and taxing decisions, its the definition of corrupt, but everyone acted like I was insane.

Oh well, we're all renters now, good job to all the people who kept voting for actual landlords to run the government.