I'm a pretty good office drummer, though. Some say I'm not Penske material. Well, ta-ta to them!
Posted on 06/20/2023 8:49:24 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Manny Medina, the chief executive of a Seattle-based artificial intelligence sales company, doesn’t mind repeating himself. It comes with the territory, after all. That tolerance proved convenient this year as he faced the same question innumerable times.
Wait, so why was it you wanted us back in the office?
The engineers reminded him of their commutes. The working parents reminded him of school pickup times. Mr. Medina replied with arguments he has delineated so often that they have come to feel like personal mantras: Being near each other makes the work better. Mr. Medina approached three years of mushy remote-plus-office work as an experiment. His takeaway was that ideas bubble up more organically in the clamor of the office.
“You can interrupt each other without being rude when you’re in person,” said Mr. Medina, whose company, Outreach, is now in the office on a hybrid basis. “In a Zoom conversation, you have to let somebody finish their thought.”
For tens of millions of office workers, it’s been three years of scattershot plans for returning to in-person work — summoning people in, not really meaning it, everybody pretty much working wherever they pleased. Now, for the umpteenth time, businesses are ready to get serious.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
WFH is going to destroy downtown real estate values.
They’ll be lucky to get 50% back to the office.
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The big lie employees keep repeating is that they are more
“productive” at home. The data doesn’t show that at all. It’s not just “because” that companies want people back to the office.
A few quarters of big layoffs, will correct this problem, once people actually start to feel thankful they even have a job again.
In other words, 72.5% of private-sector organizations — up from 60% in the July-to-September 2021 period — said they did not have employees working remotely.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/09/success/hybrid-wfh-remote-work/index.html
If I don't want to go back to the office but my employer insists, I will find another employer.
Well, I come in everyday, but most people don’t so it is kind of silly, except for the free coffee.
“You can interrupt each other without being rude when you’re in person,” said Mr. Medina, whose company, Outreach, is now in the office on a hybrid basis. “In a Zoom conversation, you have to let somebody finish their thought.”
The horror!
Just a thought, maybe people are dissatisfied with their jobs because many of them don’t create anything. How much of large businesses is tied up in overhead? Stuff like DEI, HR, Legal, Security, Green initiatives, Innovation offices (that’s a real oxymoron), and Business Intelligence (another oxymoron).
No, it's still rude, you jackass.
I warned people in my circles -- in March 2020 -- that this was going to happen.
Since that time, I've relocated my home and business to another state, and saved myself a fortune in personal and business expenses in the process.
Your second paragraph puts the lie to your first one.
It might take a couple of years. But eventually we will see an equilibrium. Productivity is way off. Employees will eventually lose their leverage. Elon Musk simply said "no". More CEOs will follow his lead.
I suppose the argument is that CEOs get to make all the money. I suppose that's true. But Elon Musk is right. We are creating a "laptop" class who gets to have the privilege of WFH while everyone else is having to report to work in person due to the nature of their work.
I actually have enjoyed that very paradigm. In 2020 through 2021, I and one other guy (the global IT director) were coming into the office. I got the luxury of having my own office building and the satisfaction that comes from completely separating my home life from my work life.
Now I am sometimes the only one, except for “mandatory” Wednesday.
WFH is the pits!
+1 😁
And if they don't ... you can be damn sure their competitors already have.
The environmentalists SHOULD be promoting WFH. Except for some extra electricity used by switches (and even that is not that big a deal, as most of the bandwidth is going from corp site to corp site) it is a HUGE savings in energy and a major reduction in burning fuel for transport.
No it doesn’t. They can keep the productive workers and layoff the dead weight.
Dissimulate much?
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