Posted on 09/03/2022 6:17:41 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Labor Day marks the line in the corporate sand.
Many company leaders say the end-of-summer holiday represents the best chance to finally lean on workers to return to the office this year.
After months of encouraging white-collar employees to return, or attempting to coax them back with free pizza, warm cookies and catered lunches, many executives now say they feel emboldened to take a tougher stance. No longer can workers merely come to the office if they so choose; this fall, executives say, attendance is expected and the office resisters will be put on notice.
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...After Spotify offered most employees a choice on their work setup, about 60% chose to work from an office a majority of the time, while roughly 40% decided to remain largely at home.
“Psychology comes into play on this,” Ms. Berg said. “Nobody is telling me that I need to come in. It’s just my choice. And I think that is very important for you as a human being, too. I’m smart; I know how I want to do my job, when I want to do my job.”
She added: “If you recruit grown-ups and then you treat them as kids, it’s going to backfire.”
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Some hiring managers say they have been able to attract talent by telling prospective candidates they can work from anywhere. But the number of remote jobs has started to fall, even as demand for remote roles remains high. Around 17% of paid job postings in the U.S. on the professional-networking site LinkedIn offered remote work in July of this year, down from a high of around 20% in March. In July, paid remote jobs attracted the majority of applications, at around 54%.
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Good points. If you are at the top of your career, working remote may pay off. I know two folks who have been working from home for several years. Everything was fine, until recently when the corporations decided to downsize. When you’re the guy nobody sees, no matter how good your work is, you are likely expendable.
Depends on what the job is. If you work on an assemblu line for a living you obviously can’t stay at home all day. If your job is a document reviewer then obviously you can. Making people coming to work just for the sake of making people coming to work is ridiculous
You sound like my daughter. She is an editorial assistant. In 2-3 years she oversaw the publishing or updating process on about 400 books, mostly from home.
She had an overbearing boss who was making her come to the office when no one else had to.
She quit that job for another one that’s fully remote.
She’s now looking for a larger apartment so she can have a better office area.
I consistently refuse any position that requires me to come into the office. I’m still able to get roles that allow me to work 100% remote.
Companies that insist on people coming into the office are hurting themselves when it comes to hiring the top shelf talent they want - those with the qualifications and experience that are in demand. Why go into the office if you don’t have to? So they won’t.
Disagree. These are the same folks goofing off at work.
So, if the company says "Everybody must come back to the office" I'll quit. The nearest office to me now is in Raleigh, NC. Ain't gonna happen.
They also demanded that if people were going to all be in one building that they prove they have had their death jabs and fortyeleven boosters
‘Eff those corporate whiners. They enabled, no, encouraged this mess. Let them stew in their own juices.
I personally can do either, but I have rarely ever had a job that was very challenging or could keep me busy, so I tend to go in just to feel like I am putting in my 8 hours in some fashion.
But WFH is all the rage and I don’t see the toothpaste going back in the tube. In my experience over the last couple of years when our managers try to require people to come into the office they just quit and have no problems finding 100% remote work.
...a killing field.
Why are companies demanding employees return to the office?
Because politicians have been desperately begging them to force their employees to return. Commercial activity in city centers was almost completely dependent on the daily massive inflow of office workers. They haven’t been coming in and lots of businesses have died as a result. Commercial real estate is quickly going down the tubes as a result. On the horizon, the politicians see what they most fear. Employees figure why do they even need to live in the expensive city at all? Why not move far away where there is less crime, the roads are less congested, there is less pollution and taxes are massively lower?
When that happens residential real estate and the tax base in places like NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, etc completely collapses.
Frankly, I’m a little surprised that WFH incentives are not part of the Inflation Production Act to reduce carbon emissions from commuting workers. There is a secondary reduction in energy use from reduced laundry and dry-cleaning, a reduction in daily showers, meal preparation, reductions in the consumption of make-up perfume and the like, and a reduction in the climate control of office spaces. Seems like Bernie, AOC and Greta would be lobbying hard for this type of social re-engineering.
If they’ve spent the passed 2 yrs working off site and production hasn’t fallen off... then why bother bringing them back to an office?
why bother spending the money for office space when you could get smaller offices for management and remotely manage the rest?
I started working at a major international bank in January. I hear my office in NYC is very nice, but I’ve never seen it. I’ve never met anybody I work with in person. There are no plans afoot to ever go into the office. Everybody is happy with the situation as is.
I don’t think there are many jobs requiring work product that does not benefit from face to face interaction. Those involving simple data entry etc might.
Sooner or later we’ll get back to in-office as the standard.
No one is so important that they can’t be replaced. (except POTUS)
So it was ok for all of us who work in factories and warehouses to be at work every day during the Scamdemic - but the spoiled brats in the office got to go home?
So the Marketing department is more important that the Fork Lift Drivers and the order pickers? If the warehouse and docks are open - ALL employees need to be at work.
Most companies are locked into long term contracts to lease their office space or they actually own their office space.
Those who decide to allow more WFH can really cut their expenses by massively downsizing their office space just for the occasional employee meeting and for impressing clients.
I saw a ton musical instruments in people’s home offices on Zoom calls. Guitar manufacturers had a surge in sales, and when I inquires, I found out that many lapsed Hendrix wannabees splurged, plugged in, and rocked out while working remotely.
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