People Who Work From Home Are 'Losers,' Jokes Mayor Jacob Frey

MINNEAPOLIS — People who choose to work from home instead of going to an office downtown each morning quickly become "losers" after just a few months, according to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

"I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly showed: When people who have the ability to come downtown to an office, don't. When they stay home sitting on their couch, with their nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop. If they do that for a few months, you become a loser! We're not losers, are we?"

Frey was speaking at Wednesday's packed Minneapolis Downtown Council event discussing business revitalization. Fox 9 has the clip here.

"It was so obviously a joke. It's a study that doesn't exist about people that don't exist in that nonexistent study," Frey told the Star Tribune.

The joke did not appear to land on social media, where viewers said working from home lets them avoid annoying commutes and parking fees, and allows them to spend more time with their kids.