Posted on 06/28/2023 11:25:15 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
The return to in-office work has not gone well. As detailed by Entrepreneur, companies that have forced workers back into the office are currently facing a litany of issues ranging from employee dissatisfaction to difficulty hiring.
“Unispace finds that nearly half (42%) of companies that mandated office returns witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated,” writes author Gleb Tsipursky. “And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment.”
For the companies who are considering returning to the office, the outlook isn’t great.
“According to the same Greenhouse report, a staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules,” Tsipursky details. “Moreover, employees from historically underrepresented groups are 22% more likely to consider other options if flexibility goes out the window.”
Even though the data shows that ending remote work will bring issues for companies, that hasn’t stopped several major companies from trying. One such company is Farmers, which captured headlines and sparked reactions across the internet after reversing its remote work policy and forcing employees to come into the office 3 days a week.
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BTW, this includes people who went into work everyday, without hesitation. Covid changed everything. Has nothing to do with being lazy or entitled for them.
If you have rare skills that are in demand or a lot of experience in an area where that is highly desirable and hard to find, you ARE one of the company's more valuable employees.
When your skills are in demand in the market, you have leverage with employers and can choose to simply not accept any employer who does not meet your terms. In a competitive market, either other companies will have to meet your terms or you're not that valuable and will have to knuckle under and accept their terms. I've never had to accept their terms. Somebody - usually multiple somebodies - have always been willing to accept my terms.
I love capitalism.
Ding! You've just put your finger on a lot of the comments here.
I'm a contractor. I work for banks in risk management and regulatory reporting. That wasn't so sexy 10-15 years ago but it has gotten a lot more in recent years. Also, I got the degrees they want to see and I have over 20 years experience. I'm certainly not unique or anything but there just aren't enough of us - especially with baby boomers retiring in droves - with the degrees and experience they want.
Its really wonderful because the shoe was very much on the other foot during the Great Recession and I was the one who was getting kicked in the teeth for years. Now I have choices.
WFH?
Nevermind, figured it out.
Not one major corporation fought the government in court. They were in on the coup.
Agreed.
“team work happens best in person.”
Teams. I hate teams. Teams slow me down.
“He didn’t agree.”
Sounds like you have a retarded boss. A sixth grader could figure that out in a heartbeat.
“Corporations caved like little bitches to the unconstitutional lockdowns and now they can reap the whirlwind. To hell with them”
Well said.
I know that teachers aren’t corporations, but double-hell to those lazy slouches.
Place I worked, I did nights, weekends and holidays. One office even had blast curtains on the windows.
Best job I was ever going to get.
Over ten years ago, long before Covid, we were allowed to work remotely and my team lead bought a fully tricked out Motor Home to travel anywhere he wanted to go.
“personal collaboration with others is needed to accomplish the tasks, then work from home doesn’t work so well.”
This is a myth.
The last few years before I retired I worked with a virtual team from all over the country.
It allowed subject matter experts to solve previously “impossible” problems.
Working remotely as a team is a learned skill—but very doable and can be amazingly productive.
I just got a 100% remote consulting/programming contract for 1 year. I plan to buy Musk StarLink internet, a truck, and a camper and just travel and work wherever.
If you were told that WFH would be permanent and your productivity hasn't dropped, and in fact went up as it did in many cases, why would RTO be mandated?
The large multi-national bank is grappling with this right now. We were told WFH would be permanent. Productivity went UP largely due to people working the time they'd otherwise be commuting which here in the Shitcago area is about 45 minutes each way for most, which was 1.5 hours/day on average that the bank got in return for WFH.
Many worked weekends to complete emergency changes and work on large projects that needed to be done to support WFH and make that more efficient for everyone. It was all wildly successful.
Now, our employer wants to renig on the WFH promise?
We've already seen more than 700 people leave the bank because of it since January. More leave each week.
Kinda counter-intuitive to tell people to return to the office "or else" and then be surprised when those employees give you the middle finger and say "here's your or else!" on their way out the door.
That's not anecdotal evidence, it's fact. And it's happening in a lot of places including financial services, telecom, insurance and more.
So good luck with your attitude and next time you're getting shitty service somewhere, thank your attitude.
Hey dead! Great to see you!
You're 1,000% right. They're trying to prop up the REIT's because that's the next big collapse and they know it.
In over 20 years dealing with remote workers, few, very few, did as much work as in-office workers. They were out-of-sight, out-of-mind, useless for the most part. Sure, there may be exceptions, but they are few and far between.
...besides, once you start hiring remote workers, easier for too many companies to off-shore those jobs for a fraction of the money required to pay for an American. Look at IT in particular, but true in other jobs.
That's been happening long before Covid came around. In financial services, the work getting outsourced & offshored is the repetitive back-office work that hasn't been automated yet.
The kind of work I do isn't outsourced nor will it be. IT Strategy, Cloud Migration and InfoSec functions will remain on-shore and on-prem with FTE's. These are not functions that get outourced or offshored because contractors aren't accountable. They're commodities doing commodity work.
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