Sorry, deal with it. If workers won’t go back to the office when requested, they should be replaced.
The 1950s called.
It wants you back.
“Sorry, deal with it.”
Read the article—the employers are the ones dealing with it—more people quit, harder to recruit.
Needless to say it is many of their most talented people who will be giving them the middle finger—there are plenty of insurance companies out there who will be happy to hire remote workers who bail from Farmers.
Meanwhile the drones with no talent will have to go to the office....and morale and productivity will go down the tubes.
Bonus: The workers who plan to bail can keep quiet about it and get their resumes out—and then leave for other employment when it suits them.
This is like taking a ticking time bomb to a business—never know when it is gonna blow.
Ha ha ha. There is no "back to the office" for people who live so far away from the office because they're in different states.
Employers know they're lucky to get whomever they can and only foolish ones, (or ones like Twitter that had to weed out the government paid censors) are renewing their office leases. Although even Twitter is making the news for failing to pay their rent in their San Francisco and Boulder offices.
As the author points out, their boss who had the moronic idea to force the issue is already leaving the company by next week. It's as though he was hired to sabotage the company by its competitors.
From the article: "...almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment."
Just one division in a small cap company I work with decided to force employees back to the office three days a week. The wave of immediate retirements was bad enough but then the resignations hit and they now have dozens of unfilled positions for professional staff. They're desperately hosting job fairs and begging remaining staff to "use their social media presence" to recruit new hires. Their bailout rate exceeds their hiring rate. One group of twelve had five departures, was able to hire one replacement, but even that replacement left before replacement number two was hired (almost 12 months apart).
More and more companies I deal with are filling positions with staff that have five years of experience where their predecessors started in the same position with 12-15 years of experience.
I never thought I'd see it but I work with companies that are willing to hire part-time directors, where the new hire is willing to take the job but the only way they'd accept the salary offered is to work as few as three days a week. The company can't offer more because they're desperately offering hiring bonuses anywhere they can.
Thats all there is to it. Company has the right to change policy at will.... dont like it, leave. Im sure at this point the company sees the decline in productivity and comedy of lock outs/masks/vaccines in general.
with who?
Sorry, deal with it. If employers won’t offer remote work, leave them/refuse to work for them.
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 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.
Get stuffed, troll.
The only reason to go into the office is to justify the overpriced leases on the large buildings constructed to stroke executives’ massive egos.
On the flip side of your argument, after mandating vaccinations and requiring WFH, those companies that insist on all of the pure risk of working in an office deserve to be driven out of business when their access to talent dries up.