Meanwhile the richest among us are celebrated for sitting around doing nothing productive for society and everyone aspires to be in their position.
Mr__O__ on
Yet WFH has proven time and again to increase productivity, employee satisfaction, and profits..
marcusmosh on
No. The work/ life balance was tipping way too far to the employee’s benefit. We can’t have that.
formerfawn on
I’ll die on this hill.
Cost of living, traffic, pollution, work life balance, family dynamics, climate change… the list goes on.
It might not be for everyone and it of course doesn’t work for every job but where it can work and for the people who thrive it’s the future no matter what the commercial real estate ghouls want.
Sodamyte on
Too many multi year leases by companies got locked into with no way to back out..
UAreTheHippopotamus on
Nah, don’t blame people for living their lives while working jobs. *We didn’t fumble anything.* We just had a surprising QoL boost from unexpected circumstances and now billionaires want to claw that back so they can marginally increase their share price.
repster on
I had one coworker who had a long commute and was granted WFH 3 days a week. On those days, he would show up on zoom calls on his phone from coffee shops or his car. Response time on text was 60+ minutes and the answer was usually something like “I am at the chiropractor, will get back to you in an hour”.
On the days he was in the office, you would frequently find him in the cafeteria having what he called “informal meetings”. He was honestly just a shitty employee, but it was far less obvious for leadership that this was the case because of the days he was out of the office.
By my estimates, most companies are 10-80-10 organizations. 10% do most of the work, 80% can be counted on to show up and do what they are told, and 10% don’t do much. The problem with WFH is that it is easy to tell who the top 10% are, but it is hard to separate the bottom 10% from the 80%.
So, we are all going back to the office 🤦🏼♂️
Fatemoney on
I believe the commercial real estate market was threatened. A change in human distribution in cities could’ve resulted in a huge economic shift and they were also trying to avoid a recession.
RipErRiley on
Commercial real estate is the true detractor.
ComfortableAware2325 on
For the company I currently work for I was interviewed via Skype during Covid ( which was weird as hell). My first day of work was going to the office. They basically thrust a laptop at me and sent me home. I had to learn the job and what was expected of me by myself. Weird as hell but it was a sink or swim moment and after a bunch of late nights and many errors I became a very well respected member of the team. Covid died down and they want us all in. My guess is to justify the money on the office lease. I’ve proven myself to my boss. My quality of life with kids working from home for myself is a blessing so I work my ass off. I log in an hour early, I don’t take lunch breaks and ensure my workload is 100%. I still get it be there for my kids, make dinner, do washing/house cleaning. I love it. We are expected to go in on one day a week and I do when I can, but my boss is chill and if it’s raining or he doesn’t feel like committing that day we can stay home. I’m immunocompromised so every time I catch the train I get sick, but still make the effort every so often.
They have tried so hard to make coming back to the office exciting- barista coffee, beer on tap, a fully stocked fridge and snacks and food etc. beautiful office.
Covid really did flip a switch.
We have had people in the team that worked from home and just fucked about. Good management should be able to pick out the people that are taking the piss.
WFH should be a thing.
-WitchyPoo- on
The same people who were fucking off in the office while in person were doing this shit and the people in power pretended like it was everyone.
-Th3Saints- on
We didn’t fumble it.
the status quo destroying effect of mass devaluing of office and building space which are key to most major companies financial engineering and exposing the rot present caused a major reactionary behaviour.
qiaozhina on
I still work fully remote. It’s absolutely the best and I would fight to the death to keep it
Monkeydjimmmy on
We didn’t fumble anything, I’ve been wfh since 2018 and never coming back.
IsThereCheese on
C-suites saw that people were able to work *less* while remote, and still get everything done that they needed to.
Which means if they force them back into the office, they can get **even more** blood from the stone under constant supervision
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Meanwhile the richest among us are celebrated for sitting around doing nothing productive for society and everyone aspires to be in their position.
Yet WFH has proven time and again to increase productivity, employee satisfaction, and profits..
No. The work/ life balance was tipping way too far to the employee’s benefit. We can’t have that.
I’ll die on this hill.
Cost of living, traffic, pollution, work life balance, family dynamics, climate change… the list goes on.
It might not be for everyone and it of course doesn’t work for every job but where it can work and for the people who thrive it’s the future no matter what the commercial real estate ghouls want.
Too many multi year leases by companies got locked into with no way to back out..
Nah, don’t blame people for living their lives while working jobs. *We didn’t fumble anything.* We just had a surprising QoL boost from unexpected circumstances and now billionaires want to claw that back so they can marginally increase their share price.
I had one coworker who had a long commute and was granted WFH 3 days a week. On those days, he would show up on zoom calls on his phone from coffee shops or his car. Response time on text was 60+ minutes and the answer was usually something like “I am at the chiropractor, will get back to you in an hour”.
On the days he was in the office, you would frequently find him in the cafeteria having what he called “informal meetings”. He was honestly just a shitty employee, but it was far less obvious for leadership that this was the case because of the days he was out of the office.
By my estimates, most companies are 10-80-10 organizations. 10% do most of the work, 80% can be counted on to show up and do what they are told, and 10% don’t do much. The problem with WFH is that it is easy to tell who the top 10% are, but it is hard to separate the bottom 10% from the 80%.
So, we are all going back to the office 🤦🏼♂️
I believe the commercial real estate market was threatened. A change in human distribution in cities could’ve resulted in a huge economic shift and they were also trying to avoid a recession.
Commercial real estate is the true detractor.
For the company I currently work for I was interviewed via Skype during Covid ( which was weird as hell). My first day of work was going to the office. They basically thrust a laptop at me and sent me home. I had to learn the job and what was expected of me by myself. Weird as hell but it was a sink or swim moment and after a bunch of late nights and many errors I became a very well respected member of the team. Covid died down and they want us all in. My guess is to justify the money on the office lease. I’ve proven myself to my boss. My quality of life with kids working from home for myself is a blessing so I work my ass off. I log in an hour early, I don’t take lunch breaks and ensure my workload is 100%. I still get it be there for my kids, make dinner, do washing/house cleaning. I love it. We are expected to go in on one day a week and I do when I can, but my boss is chill and if it’s raining or he doesn’t feel like committing that day we can stay home. I’m immunocompromised so every time I catch the train I get sick, but still make the effort every so often.
They have tried so hard to make coming back to the office exciting- barista coffee, beer on tap, a fully stocked fridge and snacks and food etc. beautiful office.
Covid really did flip a switch.
We have had people in the team that worked from home and just fucked about. Good management should be able to pick out the people that are taking the piss.
WFH should be a thing.
The same people who were fucking off in the office while in person were doing this shit and the people in power pretended like it was everyone.
We didn’t fumble it.
the status quo destroying effect of mass devaluing of office and building space which are key to most major companies financial engineering and exposing the rot present caused a major reactionary behaviour.
I still work fully remote. It’s absolutely the best and I would fight to the death to keep it
We didn’t fumble anything, I’ve been wfh since 2018 and never coming back.
C-suites saw that people were able to work *less* while remote, and still get everything done that they needed to.
Which means if they force them back into the office, they can get **even more** blood from the stone under constant supervision