It makes you wonder.
My son works for a mid sized publicly traded tech company in Ca. Back in March they closed their offices there. He left his condo there and moved out of state where he’s been doing his job remotely now for 8 months. The offices remain closed.
A month ago the company sent out a survey asking for opinions on reopening and so forth. The actually published the results which showed the vast majority of workers wanted to keep working from home; the majority of managers were satisfied by the work being done from home.
Plus the company’s lease on these offices ends Dec 31. Seems like the perfect time to rethink the need for the previous level of office space. Yet they have announced the steps they are taking to get people back into the office next Spring, including installing plexiglass between everyone and everything; moving desks around so they may need even MORE space.
They have completely ignored an opportunity to use the past 8 months as a gauge as to how productive working remotely was. To downsize office space come Jan 1 with no adverse impact on their current lease. To actually act like a tech company and embrace the tech! Not to mention to listening to the actual employees affected by all this.
Nope. As of now they expect people back in the office next Spring.
At the same time, the company is raising $$ for BLM and is actively announcing the moves to hire/promote minorities and women.
Madness.
I work for a 15,000 person company. Prior to COVID 5% of the people worked from home (including me) and 95% were in the office daily. Right now 95% work from home and only %5 are in the office. Management doesn’t see this changing any time soon.