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Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord

Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money

The boss of the world’s biggest commercial landlord has accused remote workers of staying away from the office because it means they “don’t work as hard” and can save money.

Steve Schwarzman, the chief executive of investment firm the Blackstone group, made the claims about hybrid staff while speaking on a panel at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

In remarks first reported by Bloomberg, he said employees had kept working from home because “they didn’t work as hard, regardless of what they tell you” and also due to the savings they make on their daily commute, lunches and work attire.

negativeyoda ,

Well they don’t work as hard…

When you factor in things like getting ready for work, commuting and even just the emotional labor that goes into dealing with workplace idiots face to face and keeping up appearances, it makes perfect sense

dipshit ,

Imagine a landlord telling the people who actualy do real work they don’t work as hard as a landlord.

Bro, I work harder than landlords in my sleep.

LazyPhilosopher ,

You know who actually doesn’t work hard at all? steve schwarzan. Fuck these lazy ass execs and share holders. I think we outta put em all in metal tubes and drop em in the ocean.

pandacoder ,

I actually work harder (in general) than before because now I don’t have to commute, 1-2 hours more a day I can spend getting stuff done

Hawk ,

Why? Use those two hours for yourself!

Zink ,

This is the real pro tip.

pandacoder ,

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But even when I do I’m still working, just on my own computer doing totally unrelated stuff.

ComradeKhoumrag ,
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I’ve been making sure to sabotage my performance when I’m on site

corsicanguppy ,

I like that I have the choice to use those 1-2 hours to get stuff done for work, to clean up something at home, or just go onto the patio and stare at the sky for 5-30 minutes.

All of those bring me far more satisfaction than riding the train, and I’d happily do any of them instead.

theKalash ,

It get’s better once you get past the wanking.

ohlaph ,

Haha, that’s hilarious.

CancerMancer ,

Business saves money: “the goal of a business is to make money”

Employee saves money: “you just don’t want to pay all the robber barons all the way in and out of work you lazy piece of shit”

treesapx ,

Well overdue pulling “robber baron” back into the lexicon.

CancerMancer ,

How long until we start getting paid in scrip again?

treesapx ,

It really annoys me that as a kid I learned about how awful Company Stores were, how lucky we were as a society to be past that history, and now they’re back on the table.

nickwitha_k ,

Business saves money: “the goal of a business is to make money”

I loathe this definition that has become the norm. The goal of a business used to be to provide a good or service, with profit as the reward for success. The profit being the purpose is what leads to the constant, unnecessary enshitification.

CancerMancer ,

I completely agree and have had this exact argument many times. It is no less infuriating now than it was years ago.

Illuminostro ,

You know who really doesn’t work hard? Shareholders. Why the fuck do they get preferential treatment over the people actually doing the work?

Zink ,

What is… money?

skuzz ,

Why do they also get preferential treatment over the customer of the product?

JustZ ,

Obviously, the dude owns commercial real estate. Of course he’s talking shit about people that don’t want to go to the office.

I’m never going back to an office. Started my own business and never looking back. Information workers don’t need offices, period.

Dude probably can’t wait to replace his own office staff with AI. Tell him to eat shit.

Marin_Rider ,

did this dipshit ever hear the term “work smarter not harder”

I think he sounds like a loser

Peddlephile ,

Probably doesn’t like WFH because people can clock off when their task is done and he can’t ask them to work unpaid overtime.

doggle ,

Probably part of it, but being a commercial landlord is probably bigger. WFH is reducing the need for offices and thus hurting his property values.

Adalast ,

Headline in a reality literate world: “Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’ says obscenely biased and out of touch person with a vested interest in the abolishment of remote work.”

Zink ,

Steve-O here should just see how unproductive I can be in the office!

jhulten ,

I can ruin the productivity of at least one other person in the process.

slurpeesoforion ,

Hash tag Colin Robinson did nothing wrong

Littleborat ,

I know people like you

corsicanguppy ,

While on a particularly stupid project that I knew was destined for failure, I actually requested to come into the office on a constant basis because I knew that it was going to fail horribly and I didn’t want my non-presence to become the scapegoat for the manager’s pitifully bad choice.

I mean, I was there all the time, right? How can I have been the cause of this otherwise perfect project failing so miserably?

Zink ,

That sounds pleasing in a malicious compliance kind of way.

ChaoticEntropy , (edited )
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“It’s very important to me that you head into a large and expensive to rent office. Don’t ask me why.”

dipshit ,

Selfish prick wants more money for themselves. story at 11.

Shanedino ,

Really just needs to be common practice or law to pay workers to commute.

Trainguyrom ,

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, one of the fastest ways to pull cars off the road is to pass strong incentives/taxes on businesses to encourage them to adopt a hybrid or remote work model. I live in a rural area where you frequently need to drive to the next town over for this that or the other thing and my hybrid work schedule has allowed my family to become a single car family in about the most eternally car dependant kind of living situation there is

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