The productive staff will once again be saddled with the incompetent ones and cowardly bosses will scurry about trying to look busy and pretending they have any idea about leadership.
I liked the people I worked with and enjoyed being in the office. But I got a heck of a lot more work done from home.
Not to mention getting shocked every time you touch the metal door knob.
“I don’t blame anyone for being pissy about returning to an office. The office is a hostile work environment if you’re an intelligent and productive human being. It’s nothing but risk; say the wrong thing based on some lunatic’s perception and you’re likely to get fired.
The productive staff will once again be saddled with the incompetent ones and cowardly bosses will scurry about trying to look busy and pretending they have any idea about leadership.”
I retired 11 years ago and thankfully I worked mostly outside the office - but your description fits the office environment to a T even back then. I worked for a Fortune 100 corp...the current state of woke deterioration started long ago.
I am still in contact with most of the people I worked with in the 1970s! But working with them eight hours a day could be a grind! And the bosses were arses!
And the least productive will call unnecessary meetings to account for being unproductive.