Posted on 03/08/2024 7:10:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
According to a survey from Resume Builder of over 1,000 decision-makers, 90% of companies plan to urge employees back to the office by the end of 2024. Almost 30% of these leaders say they will threaten to terminate employees who don’t oblige with the new return-to-office plans.
These sentiments couldn’t be more at odds with the preferences of employees. In a Bankrate survey of 2,000 workers, roughly 68% of full-time employees prefer a hybrid work schedule.
Ultimately, I believe the real reason leaders are trying to force workers to return to the office is not because they actually believe it will make teams more productive, but rather because they want their workers to quit.
“Hire slow, fire fast.”
It’s a well-worn adage that many first-year MBA students have drilled into their heads. And yet, every day brings another story of a CEO choosing to fire workers awkwardly, painfully, and slowly through a backdoor policy shift: return to work. As a CEO myself, I strongly believe CEOs know exactly which employees will self-select out of a job. For instance, it’s not hard to deduce that someone who moved their whole family from New York to Whitefish, Montana, is probably going to find another way to survive.
The change in policy from operating remotely, to hybrid, or to in-person, is not the issue. The issue is the passivity and lack of transparency. Let’s rewind.
In a once tight pandemic labor market, many companies made self-congratulatory proclamations about pivoting to a permanently remote workforce. Their goal was to retain talent and compete with lax office requirements at tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon.
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Where I worked the office made no sense.
Our co-workers on our teams were out of state, our customers were out of state, critical resources were out of state.
The only reason we were in the office was momentum from times past.
I am retired now—but nobody in our company could figure out any reason to ever go back to the office.
Sure, sometimes I have other stuff todo but sometimes something important is just waiting on one guy’s signature.
But your cubes wouldn’t be 900 mi apart if you were both in the office!
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