Surely the possibility of the next pandemic makes going back into the office an unacceptable risk, right?
I’ll never go back into an office again. I’m thinner, saner, healthier and I get a helluva lot more work done - all the things companies claim they want. Any company too incompetent to manage a remote workforce isn’t worth my time.
I’ll be retired in about a year. But my company could convince me to retire tomorrow with one simple trick ...
Many years ago I was a union laborer in NYC and my(late) father was a builder who renovated 100 Sixth Ave for HBO’s NYC HG.
I remember Bryant Park was bad even the cops wouldn’t go into it.
This was in the early 80s.
How things have changed. My first full-time ‘real’ job out of college had some written rules, which if violated, would lead to our termination. These rules included “All employees shall be at their desk or station and working no later than 8:00.” Some people (not I) found that to be strict and heavy handed. Today, they’d sue the boss for emotional distress.
Salesforce is awful. The Chairman/CEO it is an extremist liberal.
There are much better products out there for considerably less.
There is no return to the office for people who've never been there. We have staff from four states away. If we were to lose them, the whole thing collapses.
The remote workers run circles around the locals. It's not even close.
The Requests For Proposals we see include the statement: "Individuals can work from any location their company sees fit."
Still? Either tell the employees to show up or fire them. Simple. It was before the scamdemic.