Mayors Want You Back - "You can't stay home in your pajamas all day."

Are post-Covid cube farms the new plantation?

'You can't stay home in your pajamas all day!': NYC Mayor Eric Adams says workers must get back to the office because work-from-home policies aren't economically sustainable for the Big Apple and New Yorkers need to 'cross-pollinate ideas and interact'.

This is dangerous.  

From the mayor of NYC:

'We must get open, and let me tell you why,' Adams said in an appearance in Bloomberg TV last month. 

'That accountant from a bank that sits in an office - it's not only him, it feeds our financial ecosystem. He goes to the cleaners and get his suits clean, he goes out to the restaurants, he brings in a business traveler, which is 70 percent of our hotel occupancy.'

Detroit, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, NJ - the places that locked down the hardest are going to PUSH for "back-to-office" mandates.

A quick response:

"No.

Perhaps we WERE in PJ's - but that's not any of your business.

Employees don't want to walk through defunded zones.

Employees don't want to commute an hour both ways.

Employees are MUCH more productive working from anywhere other than a cube.

Socializing with friends and neighbors is more important than "work spouses."

You are transparent by saying 'come back to the office' when for two years, productivity shot up, & employee happiness went through the roof.  

All while your crime rates soared.  

You allowed hooligans and children to take over blocks of your city, followed flawed policies, politicized healthcare, and turned citizens against citizens over masks.  You arrested and harassed family-owned establishments while the big-box nationals reaped millions in profits.

You made fun of the police and made a mockery out of professional sports.

Your lockdowns destroyed small businesses and now you want the SMB to save you?  How dare you?  Your notions are insulting and manipulative."

Watch this issue. 

Look out for words like "allow", etc. 

The governor of New York also chimed in:

“I really do want everyone back in their offices, just want to say that. We thrive more when everyone comes back in person, but I’ll cut you slack just a little bit longer,” Hochul said.

 "cut your slack just a little bit longer" - Who does she think she is? 

This is going to be contentious and here are some possible talk tracks as the powers create and promote a narrative:

"if we save just one life by returning to the office..." 

"it is your patriotic duty to come back to the cubicles..." 

"remote workers are selfish..." 

"remote workers are racists..." 

"if we don't get back to the office, we'll disenfranchise the poor..."

The "War of The Cubicles" is just beginning.