And the worst part is that, with so many companies shifting to work-from-home. it will create a culture (especially for early-career workers) that’s less “work from home” and more “live at work.” You’ll be on call 24-hours a day, reachable at all times. And, for early-career workers getting out of college, it won’t even seem like a strange transition from college dorms and fraternity/sorority houses to company housing.
Not only will this lead to a culture where just living on your own at all is a major achievement, it will create a culture where workers don’t own much of their own, because they have little storage space. It also means that leaving or job or (god forbid) getting fired or laid off will also render you homeless almost immediately.
Maybe I should shh up before I start giving these companies ideas.
You’re describing working at oil rig xD
Overall, almost any company is quite bad at organizing housing at the scale of “town”. Building all this infrastructure is very burdensome task for a regular company with low 2-digit margin
For capitalists it’s a dream but in reality it’s quite hard to do – fortunately or unfortunately
Remember, though, that in the previous arrangements the company recouped almost all the labour costs as offsets to the housing cost. It’s like a tax but unavoidable, and can fund proper facilities management… or profits.
“You dig 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…”
