I’d probably have to say Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster - it’s easy to buy and play on modern consoles and has better graphics, music, and script than the SNES original (and without the bugs, some of which were significant). It’s my favorite (and I’m sure by no coincidence, first) Final Fantasy and I think a great…

Oh you’re right, very few of the benefits seen by workers regarding remote work are seen by employers. There’s the idea that “happier workers do better work” but that’s obviously hard to prove or quantify (and certainly not every worker is going to be equally happy at home). But there are reasons employers may keep…

Absolutely, at least until 2038

Definitely, a lot of people are indeed more productive in an in-person office (or legitimately prefer it for whatever reasons).

Oh, yeah I’m definitely not saying that time/date stuff isn’t tricky, just that whoever wrote this should have spent a little more time getting it right.

Yeah, there will always be poor spending habits, making a finacially prudent decision vs one that isn’t. A $400 monthly car payment saves you $200 a month vs a $600 one and that adds up (though just like having a car vs not having a car, sometimes paying more monthly will work out better long-term). But his solution…

Yeah I was going to say that but I don’t want to assume that everything is able to use those (like I said, I’m not a game developer).

“Jenkins, you got that bonus-schedule calendar done yet?”

I thought these smart financial types knew about how powerful leveraging debt is - if your car costs you $400 a month but it allows you to get to your job that earns you more than $400 a month, that debt is an investment. Can you take the bus instead for cheaper? Maybe (but not always), but at the expense of your time…

Right, and we’ve had the idea of a leap year itself (if not always implemented) for millennia.

I don’t manage anything but IMO let there be a productivity drop. Companies love to talk about benefits they give the employees, like healthcare and well-funded workstations and a game room, let them get rid of some of that shit (not healthcare) and absorb the cost with a 2% drop in productivity.

This implies that middle managers actually have any skills, many don’t.

If I’m sitting in an office, someone might walk over to me to ask me questions or to make idle chit-chat. I can tell them to shut up and leave me alone but that’s rude and I might get spoken to by HR. I might get fired because I’m not gelling with the “company culture” or not a “team player” or whatever else. But if…

True, but it was stated as if productivity going up is a universal consequence of working in an office. And even if it were, I would argue that giving employees those freedoms, those quality-of-life improvements, would be more than worth the small drop in productivity it would lead to (but obviously big companies like…

I’m sure it’s a lot of factors, definitely.

They don’t have to be the same, but for most workers in most situations, they’re just as good. I’m not trying to be friends with these people, I’m trying to clock in and clock out and get paid a fair wage for the work I’m doing - if one person can’t do enough remotely, then they need to be spoken to individually…

I’m not a game developer, but I am a software developer, so my response is: come on guys.

A lot of people are more productive working from home compared to a big office with a lot of people and distractions.

Yeah I’m sure the corporate real estate company who owns your buildings are seeing plenty of “tangible benefits” from you forcing people back in. And your middle managers whose only previous contributions were watching people actually work and whose value is being questioned, they get a lot of “tangible benefits” from…

Definitely possible and in that case I apologize. There are a lot of legitimately gatekeep-y people out there.