Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Ken, polling on issues is an entirely different set of polls that Trump overall approval. Get a clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDhBykt-9I

Haha, fake news, his polling has never been higher and last night’s unofficial support at the Super Bowl proves you’re full of crap. But keep the bull*** coming so people see how full of nonsense you always are!

Trump's running into some polling problems on all these actions:
1. Ending requirement that employees report gifts and investments: 77% disapproval
2. Renaming Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America: 70% disapproval
3. Pardoning the J6 insurrectionists: 62% disapproval
4. New tariffs on goods from Canada: 60% disapproval

What exactly is wrong with working from home, anyhow?

Most of the people who work from home are knowledge workers whose work is all intermediated by a computer. So I don't see the point of having to come into an office and use a computer when they can just use a computer in their living room and do the exact same work. There is also a wealth of research that shows that people are measurably more productive at such tasks when they are not working at an office.

If you are worried about people slacking off if they are out of the watchful eyes of management, modern computer technology enables a level of surveillance on workers that was unimaginable even a few years ago and is often creepily intrusive as well. You can run that creepy software just as well on computers at home as well as computers at the office.

Also, in the 21st century, you are likely to be collaborating with people in a lot of different places, not just at your office. So if you need that kind of cooperation and communication anyway to get your job done the benefit of being in one building isn't all that big.

The businesses that allow and encourage WFH don't seem to be measurably less successful than those that forbid it either.

Besides, you can save money on rent and office space. Sometimes a lot of money.

So in summary if it saves us money and they get the work done (and sometimes more work done) I do not understand what the issue is.

Not to mention it's illegal. Musk can't promise to pay these employees. Only the Congress can.

Have to agree that Trump's buyout program is a bad Idea. What should of been done instead is tell the employees they will return to in-person work or the employees will be considered to have abandoned their positions and quit. Save all kinds of money paying employees 8 months for not working.
In the civilian world / work force if an employee fails to show up for work they get fired and only pay they get is for hours they did work
But then again that is common sense, something that is not used anymore