HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving.
According to the report, most employees working remotely and in-person both feel the need to demonstrate productivity, which for more than a third of employees means being seen socializing and moving around the office. That intense need to be visible may actually be harming productivity, study author and BambooHR’s own head of HR Anita Grantham concluded in her findings.
A full 42 percent of employees who responded to the Bamboo survey said they show up solely to be seen by bosses and managers. If bosses think their presence in the office is making any difference to the amount of work getting done, the results indicate that’s not the case.
That’s not what happened in many orgs in California. If you didn’t RTO, you were terminated.
They prefer quitting because then unemployment claims have to be justified. People are told, incorrectly, that if you quit you csnt get benefits.
But refusing RTO gives the company an easy excuse to term anyway, one that teaders of fortune magazine would agree with.
Protip; assume everything ‘public opinion’ that a corp cares about is solely to the fortune magazine demographic if you ever open one of them youll find “science” justifying their capital strike and conclusions to questions, that the working class has been saying, loudly, for 15 years (like, why is no one having kids anymore?) , but listening to workers is the last thing the investing class will ever do.