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Here is Sydney, major employers are still struggling to get staff to come back FT into the office. They are tip toeing around them with hybrid 2 or 3 days in the office.

But I think in many/most cases the employers "struggle" is not genuine and they are quite happy with weakening their reliance of geographically dependent labour. They have allowed labour to hang itself.

Sydney CDB is largely empty on Mondays and Fridays when people are mostly WFH. It's a disaster.

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Yes San Francisco, Oakland downtown are now ghost towns and homeless keep moving in, small cafes are shutting down all over, renters and residents moving out asap.

In Oakland downtown there is only ONE Starbucks left. When major coffee bar chains close up city centers, it's the end.

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You are absolutely 💯 correct!

It's a charade about ever getting back to normal.

Yes the WFH will realize too late that they can ne outsourced, offshore and automated after being jabbed and then working from home forever destroys any attempts to organize any resistance because every keystroke is being monitored and surveiled. Soon they will have to get permission for bathroom breaks online. "Please can I take 3 min for a wellness pee break?" 😫

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