That said, if a company promised someone they could move to Coeur d'Alene from Manhattan and are now backtracking, shame on the company.
My nephew works for a big name company in California. He and his family’s home burned in the big fire. He now works from home in another state. Not sure if they will go back now.
So regular people are coming to the realization that their employers don’t really care for them?
3,000 responses out of 585,000? That’s not a very good response.
This is the classic Dilbert work experience. The pointy haired boss needs the people around him to claim credit for their work.
Corporate Culture in the age of Woke means a captive audience at a minimum of 8 hours a day 5 days a week where the Woke Corp. can subject its employees to a constant flow of Brainwashing. So very much harder to accomplish without a captive workforce.
People who refuse to come to work, fire them. End of discussion.
As corporate cultures become more woke, fewer workers are going to buy in to any part of it. Many that appear to do will only be providing lip service.
No one is gonna go back if they are treated like second class citizens and lepers for not taking the risky experimental treatment.
The work from home gravy train is coming to an end as things get back to normal. People will have to go back to working in an office. That’s what I did for 40 years. People should be happy to do that and finally go back to interacting with coworkers. Your opportunities for promotion will be greater if you work in an office vs work from home.
The other thing going on is that businesses will look for opportunities to cut benefits and costs. They know Biden will increase their taxes. So rough sledding ahead. Workers will be lucky to have a job.
Don’t like the Boss? Work for yourself. I started age 26, retired at 60.
Let’s see if you really want to work.
The people I spoke to who were working remotely were hoping it would continue after the pandemic.
No more commute, no more Winter commute, commute costs etc.
They found themselves to be more productive at home than at the office as it is co-workers, office politics that get in the way of productivity.
One guy mentioned the people who did the least at the office and got away with it had a much harder time working remotely.
I would think companies would be more interested in saving huge amounts of money that would otherwise be spent on commercial real estate.
I read an article in the WSJ that many companies were slowly moving into the remote work situation before the pandemic and the pandemic just accelerated the process. Looks like some of those companies are scaling back.
It is cheaper to work remotely from India.
And it is very hard to keep track of hours spent working when at home.
1. The employees in many of these industries have tremendous leverage. One of my former clients just changed jobs within the last two weeks because the new employer is letting her work from home most of the time.
2. Most companies in this situation (i.e., they've been able to function adequately with employees working from home since the COVID fiasco began) have no reason to bring the staff back. Almost all of those that are insisting their employees return to the office are only doing this because they are paying a lot of money to lease the office space and simply don't want to waste it.
3. See the last sentence in Item #2. Every one of these companies is going to send most of these employees back to work from home when their current leases expire.
That was my normal work commute for 30 years!
If bosses discover most of the work can be done via the internet, they’ll farm all their jobs overseas.
Great strategy.
“corporate human resource executives rank maintaining organizational culture as their top workforce priority for 2021.”
The only employers I’ve had that talked about ‘culture’ thought it meant putting up posters about their ‘values.’ Real values and culture are modeled and incentivized.
As a factory maintenance guy I’d have been all for managers working from home.
They’d have been less likely to screw the machines up...
I’ve been working remotely from home for the last 12 months. I loved every minute of it. But on June 2 I must go back to my office.
As I read this article I’m not understanding why so many people are getting butt hurt about going back to the office. If everyone wants everything to get back to normal, they have to also accept getting back to a business as usual routine in the office.
I would rather be in the office. WFM meant there were no boundaries. I work from 6:30AM to 6PM. I take breaks during the day but people expect everyone to work from home when they are home. I missed the whole gas shortage because I never left the house. People called meetings during lunch and after 5.
I moved 30 minutes away but I would have done it anyway. I love the commute on a 4 lane highway through the Appalachian hills. It’s beautiful.
My office is reopening but is still mostly requiring masks despite the fact they are no longer required by the State or City. We’re managed by a bunch of Karens.