CEOs Are Using Return To Office Mandates To Mask Poor Management::Why are companies that promote remote services so opposed to enabling remote work, and more importantly, feel the need to threaten their employees?
Jesus fuck these corpo propaganda machines are really behind. They are reporting shit everyone who isn’t a CEO figured out years ago. Maybe talk to some people who aren’t CEO’s or any form of upper management and get a fucking clue.
It’s Forbes, I don’t know what else they can talk about lately.
What! You mean it’s not about improving collaboration!
Yeah, I mean it totally would improve my collaboration if I, a software architect, went into a small sales office near me even though no one in my department, not even the same division of my company will be there, so I’ll still be using the same communication tools.
Plus the pay cut I’ll be taking by having to pay for another car, gas, and downtown parking. None of which the company will cover. And the building is only open from 7:30 to 5 Pacific Time, but all my meetings are Eastern Time, so I’ll be missing morning meetings while I commute and wait for the building to open, and I sure as heck won’t be bringing my laptop home, so they get that many hours out of me and no weekends.
Yep everyone benefits.
There’s a particular joy to going all the way into the office so you can sit in remote meetings all day. Really makes you feel like your time is valued.
RTO itself is poor management. it’s 2024, what the fuck are you doing. office work isn’t some peak utopian concept, it’s only really been a thing for around a century, and it’s grown increasingly miserable as productivity skyrockets while wages don’t. any honest person hates it, and it is objectively archaic now that we have the internet
yeah, zoom meetings do suck, talking is more awkward, collaboration is harder, vibes are harder to maintain. but in no universe should that take precedent over the massive quality of life improvements WFH offers for the worker. internal work dynamics mean fuck all versus not having to leave your home/family/pets for 8+ hours every day
We know that. But do they know that?
Makes me glad I work for a company 5 hours away from where I live, my contract doesn’t state I have to work in the office, and I was hired on as a remote employee so if they do try RTO at my company which it seems like they won’t, it would be a constructive dismissal and I can just collect Employment Insurance.
Forcing employees back into the office is so dumb but I’m glad some companies seem to be holding strong with remote work. Having younger, more reasonable leadership seems to help with this.
