Inquirer Don't Be A Virtual Workplace, For Crying Out Loud You're Journalists! (Philadelphia: leasing)

[JimfromPennsyl]

The Philadelphia Inquirer plans to move their offices from 8th and Market street to 6th and Market Street in so doing reduce their office space by about sixty percent and save one million dollars a year. The sad part about this move is that in their new offices the papers journalists won't be given desks or cubicles the contemporary management practice will be used where everything will be communal, office facilities will be on a "if you have a current need you can use it long enough to fill that need" basis. At the Inquirer the modern management philosophy will prevail where it is perfectly fine to work from home unless there is a compelling reason to come to the paper's offices. It looks like the elitists running the paper that would like to do away with the print version of the paper so to weaken public pushback that a strong local newspaper brings on the wealthy and special interests, their elitists allies and benefactors, having their way in our society are on the job advancing that wonderful agenda. The paper will now be missing its offices being filled with reporters and journalists informing, educating and motivating one another to do ever better journalism and maintaining the Inquirer and Daily News as being movingly interesting, informative and very well worth it for the time taken to page through the respective paper. Surely all journalist are not every day needed to be in the paper's offices, journalism is writing and such is done best when the writer can fully focus his or her whole being on creating that article and the quiet of one's home is ordinarily optimally conducive to such writing; but since time immemorial offices have been places where people learn their craft, no more so it seems. With the Covid 19 pandemic and it altering how our society functions from a work perspective and people not coming into their employer offices has made the leasing cost of renting office space in most locales across the nation dramatically cheaper and probably the Inquirer could have largely doubled its new offices size and still saved hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in leasing costs. But Progress and the New Way our society will work would not be advanced; anyway who needs a world with Woodwards and Bernsteins when you can have a meta-world where we all can be universally singularly focused on our Avatar can't you just wait when you have to spend your life on what outfit your Avatar will wear for the day!

[Tweb66]

I am worried that if they stay remote, they won't know how to indent a paragraph.

[cpomp]

^HA!

And I don't know about all that elitist mumbo jumbo...

But the Inquirer (once a solid publication) is a dying newspaper. It's reliability, quality of research, quality of writing (especially horrific), neutral factual stances/findings have deteriorated. And it's 2022, traditional newsprint as a whole is deteriorating.

I wish the Inquirer made their presence known in the new spot, a large sign or something. Also hard to believe they couldn't find anywhere in Center City or U City that would allow substantial space on a budget with a known presence.

[Jeanie Beanie]

Originally Posted by Tweb66

I am worried that if they stay remote, they won't know how to indent a paragraph.

LOL^^^

[1ondoner]

Sounds like you are asking to go back to the 70's or 60's. If you haven't noticed, the world is changing and thanks to the pandemic some of these changes have been accelerated.

Originally Posted by JimfromPennsyl

The Philadelphia Inquirer plans to move their offices from 8th and Market street to 6th and Market Street in so doing reduce their office space by about sixty percent and save one million dollars a year. The sad part about this move is that in their new offices the papers journalists won't be given desks or cubicles the contemporary management practice will be used where everything will be communal, office facilities will be on a "if you have a current need you can use it long enough to fill that need" basis. At the Inquirer the modern management philosophy will prevail where it is perfectly fine to work from home unless there is a compelling reason to come to the paper's offices. It looks like the elitists running the paper that would like to do away with the print version of the paper so to weaken public pushback that a strong local newspaper brings on the wealthy and special interests, their elitists allies and benefactors, having their way in our society are on the job advancing that wonderful agenda. The paper will now be missing its offices being filled with reporters and journalists informing, educating and motivating one another to do ever better journalism and maintaining the Inquirer and Daily News as being movingly interesting, informative and very well worth it for the time taken to page through the respective paper. Surely all journalist are not every day needed to be in the paper's offices, journalism is writing and such is done best when the writer can fully focus his or her whole being on creating that article and the quiet of one's home is ordinarily optimally conducive to such writing; but since time immemorial offices have been places where people learn their craft, no more so it seems. With the Covid 19 pandemic and it altering how our society functions from a work perspective and people not coming into their employer offices has made the leasing cost of renting office space in most locales across the nation dramatically cheaper and probably the Inquirer could have largely doubled its new offices size and still saved hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in leasing costs. But Progress and the New Way our society will work would not be advanced; anyway who needs a world with Woodwards and Bernsteins when you can have a meta-world where we all can be universally singularly focused on our Avatar can't you just wait when you have to spend your life on what outfit your Avatar will wear for the day!