CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.
  • AgreeableLandscape
    10·
    3 years ago

    Capitalist, socialist, or whatever, you have to admit that this is an extremely stupid hill to die on.

    What’s the companies’ obsessions with in person office work anyway? Most companies reported anywhere from no productivity loss to improved productivity once they got into the swing of WFH, and now they don’t have to buy or rent office spaces. More importantly, most workers report lower stress, better morale, and more free time due to not commuting (which also has the benefit of cutting down on emissions). Seems like a win-win for everyone.

      • uthrediiOP
        7·
        3 years ago

        Or to put it in nicer terms… it is about company loyalty. If you spend most of your day in a physical place and in physical contact with your co-workers and your entire life is organized around that workplace, then you are much more loyal to the company and thus much easier to exploit.

        When they talk about compay ‘culture’ being negatively impacted this is what they mean lol

      • N0b3d
        21·
        3 years ago

        I’ve always wanted as little physical contact with my co-workers as possible. Listening to them screaming across the office, watching them picking their noses, and hearing them prattle on about the inanities of their lives tends to do that to me.

          • N0b3d
            1·
            3 years ago

            Oh, I enjoy spending time with people I choose to spend time with, just not with people foisted upon me. Basically, “friends” over “family”.

    • Lowey
      3·
      3 years ago

      Harassing online isn’t as fun as harassing in person.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        5·
        3 years ago

        TBH this reeks of manager god complex. “I need the peasents in the office so I can feel better about my sad life by making the people under my management worse!”

  • porkloin
    8·
    3 years ago

    The company I work for has reopened our flagship office in SF, but there are no mandated returns for any employees. We’re effectively going to remain a 100% remote company, which is very nice. I was hired under the pretense of being 100% remote anyway, but I have some friends who are being forced to go back into their offices pretty aggressively and they’ve all more or less said they’re planning to look for other jobs. This is in tech, mind you, so my perspective might be a little skewed, but given how hot the hiring market is right now, managers and C-levels are going to eventually realize that if they push the issue too much (especially with Delta surging) they’ll wind up losing a ton of their good employees and be stuck in a bad market for hiring competent replacements at anywhere near their current salary. The salary demands that current tech applicants are getting away with make the salaries I was seeing ~2yr ago look pretty meager.

  • FreeBooteR
    8·
    3 years ago

    It’s more effective to intimidate people in person.