Why are corps so insistent on workers back in the office. I could see them wanting certain employees back in the office, but why all the blanket policies?
Fkd up real estate investments, or long term rentals, and to make useless managers feel that they are local kings, and make them look like if they are needed (but not at all, these arr the bullshit jobs).
My productivity is definitely lower if im working from office, also i feel much worse, by the look and feel of the office, and the things around it, but especially the +3 hours of commute (preparations, actual commute) on each office day.
At my company 2 wfo days are mandatory now (1 year ago it was 1, and until 2023 spring i worked full remotely since i joined to company in fall of 2021), now i avoid some wfo days telling real, or not so real sicknesses, but if they raise the wfo days count, i’ll definitely update my linkedin profile advertising, that im looking for new “adventures”, pointing out that i dont want to work from office (and for morgen slanty to GTFO, dont even call me 🤣)
Agreed, but what is the mechanism? The CEOs are getting leaned on by somebody. Does Dell own lots of real-estate that they need filled? Seems WFH would save them money. No office to rent, worker pays internet, power, RE, A/C. Those costs add up.
Work doesn’t even provide cube walls anymore to save money. Why not save more? Heck, rent a 20x20 office and let the managers hang out in an all-day meeting with themselves if they miss meetings so much.Does Dell own lots of real-estate that they need filled? I mean, I don’t have the inside scoop with Dell or anyone else, but probably. If workers stay home then surrounding businesses like restaurants et al suffer which brings down the surrounding area value. Real estate values on major properties are a drop in the bucket compared to utility costs.
Then there’s the worker > middle management > upper management hierarchy that others have mentioned in the thread and summarized better than I can that gets messed up.
If any of this sounds corpo apologetic it’s not meant to. Unions and WFH FTW
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For them happiness equals unexploited potential. Only when workers are depressed and hate their job do execs know for certain there is not much more extract. In other words they‘d rather actively decrease productivity and revenue than let people be happy while not knowing for certain if they‘re fully exploited already. Because if they are, then why would they be so damn happy?
The ironic part is I know people who want to return to the office but can’t due to other reasons.
Why not? Remote schooling was generally viewed as a poor substitute for in-person schooling, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that there could be benefits to doing things in real life.
all the studies what I can find that show lower productivity working from home are all based around Indian IT call centers.
I just read three studies claiming WFH reduces productivity to reply to this comment and all of them are based around Indian IT call centers.
Which is weird to me because prior to their sudden switch to IITCCs they talk about how workers perceive saving an average of 65-140 minutes on grooming and commuting for in person work in America as a productivity bonus, but upper manager perceives it as nil (because if you’re commuting and you don’t have to- yes its amazing, but if you’re purely measuring “how much work got done between 9am and 5pm and to hell with whether you do that in office or not” then WFH is irrelevant.)
So, if it’s only benefit is it makes employees happier, and on average the “productivity” gains are in morale, focus, application, and appropriate location - and at worst (in America) there’s no difference (except happier employees) you really do have to be an almost literal Eberneezer Scrooge to deny them that happiness.
If you run an IT call center in India - ymmv
Right so basically the places where the boss has to ‘crack the whip’ will see an improvement in productivity. Creative types like software engineering work better or the same alone with some collaboration.
You didn’t address my point at all — I’m talking about remote schooling, which I believe studies showed did not do well.
I agree with you that the WFH “productivity” studies are suspect since it’s difficult to measure productivity in any meaningful way.
you were drawing a conclusion - so it seems - that as education suffered, so would work
Indeed I was! I’m not sure the studies you linked would either confirm nor refute that point. I agree with your supposition that studies on Indian call centers probably don’t generalize particularly well.
