Can you link some think tank pieces arguing against remote work? I tried looking but couldn't find any. I found a few things but clearly none of these are part of an anti remote work effort:
> Can you link some think tank pieces arguing against remote work?
That's not the argument I made in my comment. I simply noted that if anyone wanted to hire a group to argue for (or against) remote work then such groups already exist and have done for decades.
If there's a coordinated press placing of "back to work" articles then the starting point would be all the articles that make that case (or talk about that subject) and look for authors, their bio's, whether these are staff writer pieces (and if so whether they heavily quote "research shows" vague sources), opinion pieces, etc.
The hardest to spot and most common is staff writers who cover all manner of things (no obvious bias) who are 90% copy pasta'ing unacknowledged "press releases" "media statements" handed to them on a plate by the Institute for Lazy Reporting.
US work from home isn't an area of any interest to me and I have no particular awareness of any of the US writing on the subject.
I'm an Australian that's largely worked remote (but not always from home) since the mid 1980s, largely for transnational resource companies.
Part of my professional career did involve tracing and sourcing released information intended to sway opinion, but that was all related to mineral and energy resources.
You were responding to a comment saying the world is not so coordinated by giving some examples of how coordination might happen. I gave some evidence that coordination of the type you mentioned does not seem to happen, at least for the topic being discussed, suggesting that the world is indeed not so coordinated (at least in this instance).
> I gave some evidence that coordination of the type you mentioned
was not readily apparent to yourself.
> does not seem to happen, at least for the topic being discussed,
to the best of your ability to discern such activity, if it exists.
> suggesting that the world is indeed not so coordinated (at least in this instance).
suggesting that you were unable to find such coordination in this instance; not in any way negating the point that such agencies do exist and do take on contracts to shape a public narrative to the degree possible with the resources given.
I have no knowledge of your skill levels at picking out such media shenanigans, while they absolutely do happen in general I have no basis with which to weight your inability to find any specific evidence in this instance.
More to the dynamic of the exchange, you asked if I had any personal knowledge of US remote articles being dropped in the US public sphere to order and I responded that I have no interest in such articles in the US public sphere and thus have no such knowledge. That ancedatal singular fact has no bearing on whether such a thing is or isn't happening.
I've been a remote worker for many years prior to covid and it's been interesting to watch. There's a constant drip of negative articles about remote work which increases to a flood around headlines like the Amazon one.
"Think Tanks" "agencies" etc place articles in media outlets by a variety of means (if in fact this is what is taking place).
Media outlets in general are starved for income compared to yester years and are increasingly easy to place material with.
The first link is Euro-centric, the second is Forbes with a contributed piece by an outside writer ( Julian Hayes II ) who has written a number of articles across a number of media outlets that are pro return to the office.
Is this a truly independant free opinion he is spruiking?
Is this an opinion he gets addition income from a third party for supporting?
I personally have no idea, but this is a hint of how to backtrace content sourcing.
It's not unlike working back through subsidiary shell corporations, etc.
an AEI interview https://www.aei.org/workforce-development/the-future-of-remo... which seems pretty balanced overall (and doesn't take a prescriptive position)
an AEI piece https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-trade-offs-... which seems pretty balanced too
a Heritage piece (from early in Covid) https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/labor-policy-... that seems mostly bullish on remote work (but mostly focuses on other issues, like labor rights)
a McKinsey report (also from fairly early in Covid) https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/wh... which is mostly descriptive and also seems pretty balanced
a Cato piece https://www.cato.org/commentary/remote-work-here-stay-mostly... which argues in favor of remote work