american living in edinburgh here. i'm so glad i left that country. it's sad to see how the crab in the bucket mentality has taken over. instead of demanding the right to work from home you would rather see other people suffer by being forced to needlessly go into the office. it's just plain cruelty and pettiness.  this has nothing to do with efficiency. they want everyone in the office because the price of commercial real estate is plummeting and if the trend continues they will be forced to convert those into homes which will put further downward pressure on housing prices. we can't have that because housing has become a speculative asset in the past few decades so all the hedge fund managers are shitting themselves at the thought of it happening.  how does it benefit you to have so many people going back to work? do you like more traffic? do you like it when people waste two hours commuting every day?
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