Employees were right all along.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/26/return-to-office-mandates-no-productivity-impact-experts-predict/?itm_source=parsely-api
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The productivity thing.. senior employees are significantly more productive from home. Junior employees are significantly less productive working from home.
We're actually in a situation where things are worse than pre-COVID. Before COVID, managers had a lot more discretion and there wasn't some convoluted tracking system where it wasn't clear the factors of who was on the naughty list or not.
Now senior management has micromanaged the process significantly and implemented a blanket approach that doesn't make sense for all teams. Plus a handful of people have been given major flexibility in the sense that they've designated Based at Home. It's far more jarring when you see stories of senior managers flying all over the world for conferences while I can't meet my team in person 4 states over because they can't cover that trip.
It was all ever about control and I think city governments crying to corporations that their economy is slowing down because people weren't buying 10$ coffees and overpriced cafeteria food was probably what drove them to that point of micromanagement. Jokes on them! I could never afford that stuff anyway!
How come managers who work in offices think that subordinates enjoy open office floor plans?
Wait til they increase the number of days required next year. And they are definitely tracking the time spent in office online.
Do you recall during Covid when Todd and Jolen claimed, in response to questions about how, having proven employees could function productively at home, remote work would be more of an option going forward?
They claimed the EC was busy studying “the future of work.” Made the company sounding forward-thinking.
In truth, that was not happening.
The so called leaders of the bank have no idea how to build or run anything. They’re just hacks who kissed a-s to get where they are at…. And are milking the company for all it’s worth at the expense of all of us employees.
I used to enjoy going in to the office. Was really nice. Would go out with co-workers after work. Really helped build the team bond. Now that 85% of the positions have been moved to India, it’s just not the same. It actually just feels depressing to go in the office. I like seeing people but it’s almost worse going in.
Yep, control and also that senior managers have no earthly idea that different jobs have different needs and an open office concept is not conducive to all jobs, let alone all humans in general.
It’s not about productivity, never has been. It’s about power , control, and the trappings and social privileges that go along with that power in an office environment, that doesn’t happen at home.