Great movie. Still relevant.
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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Yep computerization is changing the employment world for sure.
Good or bad who knows?
I guess this is going to pit the companies who don’t want to pay for employee spaces with those who do. Many employee’s save a real bundle by working from home.
Yep. I work for banks too. Some like Wells Fargo and BofA are starting to demand employees work a hybrid schedule. I just tell them “no thanks”.
Others like Citibank try to demand you have the death jab even though you’re working remotely. I told them to go pound sand.
I’m still able to get 100% remote roles that do not require the death jab. Then again, I’ve been in banking for a good long while now and in a field that is in increasing demand.
I think that is an excellent point. People are choosing to move away from cities. We did. Unintended consequences. Liberals are fearing the commercial and residential real estate collapses. The cities are starving for revenue too.
Totally agree. Class A SMEs are cleaning up during this Chaos.
I’ve also earned two promotions, more $$ and in reality way less stress than dealing with the B Team in the office.
Management knows who the Class A’s are and quietly recognizes us.
Firing should be more efficient with work at home. Just cut them off, no desk clean out or anything like that. Plus it sure is easier emotionally to get rid of someone you’ve never seen. Heck, can let a computer do it, Amazon has been doing that for awhile now. The algorithm does the firing.
Those companies that refuse to allow remote work are making it clear that their managers are idiots—and the smart applicants have already figured that out....
It is rare in life that the idiots wear dunce hats to identify themselves like this!
Not me. Done with that. I’m 59 1/2 and I’m checking out soon.
I am retired but I worked as part of a team that was spread all over the country—we were the subject matter experts.
It made no sense for any of us to go into any office.
Our managers had to figure out how to measure our work.
The smart managers got it done—the dumb ones went away.
Great movie. Still relevant.
I agree. I am close to retirement. But I have found that there is no efficient substitute for face to face collaboration.
None.
I appreciate the collaborative tools, the ability to have a video interaction, share screens, all that stuff. It is great.
But working from home makes me less efficient, and I know I am not alone in this. Getting things done takes far longer. Contacting people takes longer. Everything takes longer, and I am not the only one who has noticed this.
As for collaboration, sure, video conferences are useful. But for hammering out things while using a whiteboard in front of a group of people, there is no adequate replacement for both the fluidity of it, and the innate feedback of watching the faces for comprehension or ideas, soliciting feedback, that kind of thing. Whiteboards that can be used in a video conference don’t cut it. I’ve tried variants, and they are insufficient.
The Left has done all they can to destroy American productivity and interaction between individuals via their COVID bullsh*t lockdowns and isolations.
And this destruction of efficiency is going to destroy one of the hallmarks of American industry that made us so wealthy-our Productivity.
They have worked hard to put our productivity on par with the Europeans, and they aren’t close to being done.
true.
I just saw a great write up on that movie recently, and they said that after the movie, TGIF Fridays did a complete makeover of its stores and the working environment, gettin rid of the “flair” in the process, and the official line was they did it on the basis of employee and customer feedback.
But in an unguarded moment, a reporter for an article (unrelated to the movie) had contacted a spokesman for the TGIF Fridays about this makeover, and the spokesmen said “It was that movie...”
THIS
The first companies that demand will lose their best people, and they deserve it.
RE: Why?
CORPORATE doesn’t have total control over their employees. How can they force a booster jabb on people who are self isolating?
It’s all about the elections and the jabb.
And I should say-I was forced to work from home for several months, had all the right equipment to do so effectively, and work at the kind of job where I could work remotely.
Not everyone falls into that category, and I fully recognize that. And I also recognize there are many non-collaborative types of jobs that could be handled completely remotely without much decrease in productivity while increasing the worker satisfaction. I am all for that.
I just think that overall, it is more negative than positive as a whole.
The office is pure risk. Cost of gas, clothes, wear and tear on car, opportunity cost of time spent in commute.
Not to mention HR traps like women accusing men of inappropriate behavior in the office.
I’m a system architect. The talent I need is not going to be regionally based. It would be madness to force our team back into the office. In fact, in my team of ten people, I’m the only one you could force back to the office. The rest live and work more than 500 miles from the office.
They went along with this Covid theft of personal freedom including making the clot shot a condition of employment.
Now they want people back?
You can’t make any economic, ethical, or cultural case that would actually allow a company to meet it’s business goals.
They reap what they showed.
Bump for later.
But I have on the required amount of flair...
Office Space and Idiocracy are required movies to watch.
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