Posted on 08/03/2023 10:38:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Exactly. Anyone who expresses the opinion that there’s no reason to care about how employees feel is just telling you that they are unqualified to ever be in a management role.
I’m a Realtor and work from home a lot. I’ve always had the choice of going to and doing whatever I like, when I like. But I love going to the office a little everyday. Fun people and atmosphere. We all need social time. I’m seeing more and more people becoming less and less social. It’s not healthy.
Amen.
Don’t forget jealousy of others for being able to work remotely. That always figures in these discussions.
Many returned to the office, fewer returned to actually work.
During the lockdown, the building they had leased was sold to someone, who then planned on renovating the whole building. Also during the lockdown, the company had the best earnings in quite a while, so it was decided it wasn't worth the money to lease offices in the old building after all. The company told everyone to go to the building and take what they wanted since nobody would be going back there. My son continues to work from home, which is just fine with him. He's happy not having to fight morning traffic in Albany, NY to get to work everyday, and then fight it again on the way home. Everybody in his department still gets a decent yearly bonus too. So, it's a win-win situation for everyone.
It might work if you're a small company and you're managing a bunch of Baby Boomers.
Yes, that’s definitely part of it. You can’t really micromanage or have HR be able to enforce your Woke political BS on remote employees. Yet another reason to insist on remote work.
“Don’t forget jealousy of others for being able to work remotely. That always figures in these discussions.”
Definitely! There was a constant stream of snark from some of the in-office personnel.
After a year of that I set the phone system to call forwarding to my home line, copied the programs to my hard drive at home, and instead offered 24 hour support. It worked great in that instance, but how does a company train a new hire? How do they develop and mentor a new hire? How does an employee working remotely compliment other work groups office based?
With employees job hopping every three years, home or remote based work should not be happening. We had a remote employee direct software licenses and numerical keys to his home. He jumped jobs and we couldn't use our plant triage programs along with some drives configuration yearly licensed keys. Our company counsel advised not to litigate it, but to spend the extra $70K for new licenses and keys.
You can't trust most people when they are not observed in the office.
“I’d rather work late in my basement office during a program crunch then stay until late at night in an office 35 miles away.”
110% - and I often did.
Hmmm. Any house sale is going to go better with a dedicated office space, isn’t it?
Just as the communists planned...
The next emergency mandate, next year, will finish off any survivors as well as control the election...
The serfs will continue to meekly comply...
“So folks quit when they were instructed to come back or be fired? Seems okay”
Definitely - that’s free market at work. But not so great if you’re a manager whose competition is taking your quality employees, leaving you with vacancies or having to fill positions with lower-quality employees.
10 out of the 11 board members are in favor of pressing these people back to work in the office. The CEO of the company has been resistant to this because he fears losing some key employees.
I'm the only board member who is ambivalent about it -- and even supportive of the resistant employees (so long as they are resistant for the right reasons). At our last board of directors meeting I made a very simple statement to explain myself to the other ten board members:
"All of you should have thought of this crap back in 2020 when you bought into the COVID hysteria and insisted on sending these employees to work from home. This is what I warned you about back in March of 2020 when we first met in that emergency meeting to discuss the company's COVID protocols."
At the time, I warned everyone on the board of directors that there would never be a "return to normal" if the employees ended up working from home for more than two weeks.
Interestingly, the subject hasn't come up in recent months since we had that last meeting.
We are very dysfunctional and dysfunctional societies collapse.
We’re collapsing.
To each his own.
“Good employees will give you good work from home.”
^^^This^^^. And bad employees will give you bad work in the office.
Us vs Them management works so well. Lol.
Bunch of lazy pajama loungers
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