Those Telegraph journos banging on about how working from home would be the end of the economy and the only way to sustain jobs was to trot into the office daily like a good little shareholder enricher

[CurdinHenry]

Must be feeling a bit dim now

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/23/telegraph-job-cuts-axel-springer-owner-promises-turn-paper-ai-powered-global-business

Only thing I’m thinking is how full the world is of rich assholes willing to fire so many people and use ai. Every day now there’s a new company or corporation. Lovely human beings!

It's definitely a worry that almost all media outlets are owned by total bastards and almost all consumers of media are incapable of detecting and resisting manipulation

Terrifying

It isn’t going to be the columnists who lose their jobs - most of whom are hugely privileged and connected. it’s going to be rank and file reporters and support staff who are probably already on pennies.

Don't knock shareholders. That's all our pension funds, right there.

It is hilarious how out of touch the 'you must be in the office every day' crowd are. Work has moved on grandpa!

Bit worried about Telegraph becoming more AI - my parents read it and seem to be be getting more vulnerable to anxiety from biased news as they get older. We're Jewish and the Telegraph is already very 'everyone on the political left hates Jews existentially' and stuff like that. More AI will only amplify that.

I find it intriguing that they seem to alternate between articles bashing benefit claimants and articles bashing people working from home.. .

I am not well enough to work in an office but am able to work full time from home and earn enough to pay an eye watering amount in tax and not claim any benefits

I know I am far from the only disabled person who is only able to work because they can work from home

The only upside I can see is many office buildings will have to be converted to apartment blocks . This has happened to my sil's old work place.

I am responsible for lab and clinical teams (who have to come into their workplace), as well as teams who can work remotely part time (technical and project management staff). I’d be happy for the tech team to work remotely because they deliver, but frankly I want the PM staff in more. They are the ones (because they’ve told me so) who are more likely to spend time picking up kids or nipping to the shops when it’s quiet at work. The other teams, partly by culture and partly by circumstance, use their slack periods for better for our work, not themselves. That’s why people are being asked to return to the office.

And yes, I can and will adjust their performance expectations accordingly - but for some of the more senior roles, I bloody shouldn’t have to spell it out for them.

I presume the journos were just writing the stories the bosses wanted from them.

It did always make me laugh on here the way people trotted out AI in wfh discussions though. As if an automatable job was somehow going to be preserved because the person doing it was in premises outside the home. Those posters weren't saying it cos their Telegraph employers told them to!

That’s what the media needs, more AI 🤯

@DeafLeppardso why are the PM team not managed?

I'm in a senior role. I often nip out to pick up a child or run an errand

But I also often work long hours into the evenings and at weekends.

Surely it's not the "popping out" that's the problem , and it's fine for people to work flexibly provided they deliver?

They are in the process of being managed, and we are also looking at reducing headcount because we can now automate a lot more of what they historically did. Sorting meetings means asking AI to find a slot, project knowledge can be queried via agents, keeping work on track can be handled in the first instance via agents before we need to escalate. AI is also great at doing a first pass of slide decks and documentation, as well as budget reports.

Depends on the work - if it’s impossible to schedule a meeting at 3pm because the PM is conveniently avoiding that slot, I have problems with that, and not all of our work is asynchronous.

It’s very easy to normalise the “nipping out” behaviour when you WfH in a way that would be far harder in an office. Over time some people have taken the piss - that’s what we’re dealing with, and it’s easier to have blanket rules than go down the flexibility for me but not for thee route.

I agree re availability for meetings

But there can be plenty of ways for people to be non productive in an office too -, it's about finding the right management tools rather than where people are working.

It's a weird "you have to suffer to earn money and if you don't suffer you might demand OTHER rights" attitude. Commuting costs are the modern company store. Paying just to work is ridiculous.