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As many office workers adapt to remote work, cities may undergo fundamental change if offices remain under-utilized. Who will be
As many office workers adapt to remote work, cities may undergo fundamental change if offices remain under-utilized. Who will be
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2022-03-28
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As many office workers adapt to remote work, cities may undergo fundamental change if offices remain under-utilized. Who will benefit if working from home becomes the norm?
Employers argue they make considerable savings on real estate when workers shift from office to home work. However, these savings result from passing costs on to workers.
Unless employees are fully compensated, this could become a variant of parasitic (寄生的) capitalism, whereby corporate profits increasingly rely on extracting value from the public—and now personal—realm, rather than on generating new value.
Though employers are backed by a chorus of remote work advocates, others note the loneliness, reduced productivity and inefficiencies of extended remote work.
If working from home becomes permanent, employees will have to dedicate part of their private space to work. This requires purchasing desks, chairs and office equipment.
It also means having private space dedicated to work: the space must be heated, cleaned, maintained and paid for. That depends on many things, but for purposes of illustration, I have run some estimates for Montreal. The exercise is simple but important, since it brings these costs out of the realm of speculation into the realm of meaningful discussion.
Rough calculations show that the savings made by employers when their staff works from home are of similar value to the compensation workers should receive for setting up offices at home.
What does this mean for offices in cities? One of two things may happen: Employers pass these costs onto employees. This would be a form of expropriation (侵占), with employees absorbing production costs that have traditionally been paid by the employer. This represents a considerable transfer of value from employees to employers.
When employees are properly compensated, employers’ real estate savings will be modest. If savings are modest, then the many advantages of working in offices—such as lively atmosphere, rapidity of communication, team-building and acclimatization (适应环境) of new employees—will encourage employers to shelve the idea of remote work and, like Yahoo in 2013, encourage employees to work most of the time from corporate office space.
What is the author’s opinion on working from home?
选项
A、It should be avoided if possible.
B、It is only a temporary measure.
C、It can reduce companies’ real estate costs.
D、It may affect employees’ corporate loyalty.
答案
A
解析
由题干中的author’s opinion on working from home定位到最后一段。细节辨认题。定位段指出,如果雇员得到适当的补偿,雇主的房地产节省的资金就少了,那么在办公室工作的许多优势,例如活跃的气氛、快速的沟通、团队建设和新员工对环境的适应,都将鼓励雇主搁置远程丁作的想法,就像2013年的雅虎一样,鼓励员工大部分时间在公司办公。由此可见,一旦雇主需要对远程工作的员工进行补偿,那么对于雇主而言,远程工作的弊端就大于利益,那么远程工作对于雇主和雇员双方都没有太大的好处。因此,作者支持在办公室工作,故答案为A)。B)项文中没有提及,故排除;文中确实提及,远程工作模式可以节省雇主的房地产成本,但是如果给员工补偿的话,这种节约成本就与补偿相互抵消了,故排除C);最后一段最后一句提到,远程工作模式缺少活跃的气氛、快速的沟通、团队建设和新员工对环境的适应等优点,但是没有提及影响员工对企业的忠诚度这一话题,故排除D)。
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