They can all fuck right off. Here’s the article if anyone’s interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminlaker/2023/08/02/working-from-home-leads-to-decreased-productivity-research-reveals/
They can all fuck right off. Here’s the article if anyone’s interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminlaker/2023/08/02/working-from-home-leads-to-decreased-productivity-research-reveals/
Mid-managers are being given extra allowances for ‘team outings’. Then there’s ‘free breakfast’ and other ‘free’ things. Finally, managers are also being evaluated for the number of people in their team that they can get to come to the office - the more people in their team they can get to come to office, the more pat on the back they get.
It’s no longer a debate of whether you are productive at home or in office. They just want you back in office. Simple as that. The why? I don’t know.
/Friend works in corporate real estate. “Employees in IT companies just don’t want to go back and it’s a HUGE headache for companies…” is what he told me (roughly).
The why is likely to justify office rent and also to more easily control workers. The place I work at was allowing me to 50/50 my work even before the pandemic (and they haven’t been forcing employees to come back after), and now with the war (I live and work in Ukraine) they had halved the office space rented in Kyiv but installed spare generators and stuff so that people can come work in case of power outages, as well as organized a shelter in the same building in case of air raids or other emergencies. Not once had I heard about there being not enough space in the new office, and people who prefer it still come there on the regular
Employees at IT companies probably have a whole gaming room they spend most of their time in already and just swap out machines when they’re done with work.
Source: I’m an employee at an IT company.
They know you spend time in the gaming room or ping pong table or gossip with a coffee in your hand at the cafeteria for hours. They still want you back in office. It’s no longer an argument. All that ‘hybrid’ work was just an illusion of choice. Companies are still stuck. Like someone above me said, it’s about control.