> The city’s commerce director, Anne Nadol, called it a “brave” move and “a strong example for many employers within the city.”

Over two years of these workers being remote shows that being in office is performative labor.

There is nothing "brave" about wasting workers' time and money on a commute that was done away with for over two years.

>“The work-life balance is something that our generation is experiencing that our parents didn’t get an opportunity to indulge in during their youth.”

Is she saying that our (her) generation has a healthier work/life balance than the previous generation? I find this pretty difficult to believe.

Edit: I guess for children of immigrants or upwardly-mobile, generationally poor people it could check out though

bosses are the true american heroes

Sometimes I feel like my work/life balance needs more life.

Work-life balance? I feel like I’m working twice as hard for half of what previous generations could afford, but sure.

also, speaking of balances of things, every single local news source in Philadelphia needs a better proofreader/typo balance

Seems like they need more work.

My mom likes to point out that the ratio between her salary and her rowhome when she started her career was about 1.5x. Same exact job (avg starting pay), literally same exact rowhome, it's now about 10x.

Me as well, I figured once you walked in to the factory office at 18, looked the CEO straight in the eyes and gave him a firm hand shake you then only had to work like 40 hour weeks for a few decades until you got your pension. Sure things got hectic when you bought your house at 20 for ~ 30,000$ and shit got totally nuts when you had to pay for your kids college in all cash to stop them from having to work part time at mc donalds to pay it off themselves, but dang, at least when you clocked out you werent connected to your mobile phone 24/7 and on call.

The term work/life balance is such horse shit.