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What if Financial Times has a vested interest in the real estate industry, and therefore wants RTO mandates? Something something AI I mean.

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The FT columnist/reporter, primarily, is lifting up this paper <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638> as his newsworthy hook. But his conclusion is that "the evidence consistently shows hybrid arrangements get the best results." So I don't get the sense that he has a bias towards any specific outcome, given this kind of middle position.

And given he's the chief data reporter, it doesn't surprise me that he's looking at the academic work here.

Wow, took me 2 mins to scroll down to first anti-RTO comment - the sentiment is certainly shifting.

Yeah "work from home" largely means "work from more affordable real estate". Very very few people do I know who work from home do it for digital nomad type reasons. Everyone else is due to not being able to afford anything near the office.

Each and every parent of 4+ whom I worked with lived in the middle of nowhere and would only emerge from the deep woods for an occasional workshop a few times a year.

It's a lifestyle impossible if one has to show up an hour's drive away, every weekday.

Yes! I'm "only" a parent of 3 and live nowhere near my coworkers and would be happiest never going to the office. I have been told to travel across the country to HQ every 2 months for vague reasons. I wish I could better articulate to my managers the costs of this policy to my family. Usually female managers understand.

> I wish I could better articulate to my managers the costs of this policy to my family.

Sounds like grounds for "take your child to work day". Do people still do that? I went a few times with my mom to her place in between school years.

Along with people who don't want to waste hours of their day on unproductive commute time.

i'm glad reading your comment, because i nearly always get that feeling with FT articles, and very often with Economist patronizing subset of articles.

Can you provide some example financial/economic newspapers and magazines that do not give you "that feeling"?

Deutsche Welle and usually Reuters, sometimes AP News. To your point, it _is_ somewhat random

None of your examples are "financial/economic newspapers and magazines". Rather, they are general news sources that occaisionally report on financial/economic topics. I was being very specific in my OP. Also, "somewhat random" reads like pure tin-foil hat nonsense to me. It sounds like: "If they agree with me, it is good; else they are a rubbish news source." I see this much too often on HN where someone claims the vast majority of major news sources cannot be trusted and only they know which news sources (and specific articles) can be trusted.

agreed with your general point that I'm having to look across multiple different news sources, each _not_ specialized in financial/economic news, to attempt to reconstruct viewpoints not propagandized by whomever.

in my case I look across countries for their news versions, which seems useful. and, yes, "seems" is vague but that's at least an attempt.

In capitalistic economies everything will have a vested interest.

Especially anything done by an entity linked to for-profit.

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