2 in 3 finance workers would quit if flex work were taken away: Deloitte survey

Banking Dive ^ | 08/09/2023 | Dan Ennis

[SeekAndFind]

[Round Earther]

More time with the kids and wife, less money spent on cars and gas.

Take that deal all day long.

[Gene Eric]

Says Deloitte and its “assessmenting”

[Paladin2]

Sounds like a potential corporate efficiency gain.

[roving]

One thing good about being a factory worker. AI couldn’t do my job.

[CatOwner]

Finances in this country are being manipulated at the top, so what would be the downside here? The country would crash? I can only hope so, as I see no solution forthcoming to deal with the mess we’ve let ourselves get into.

[Myrddin]

I've been fully remote since 2014. Planning to retire this year. The new CEO just started making "back to office" comments this week. My co-workers are 925 miles away. Many of my co-workers have enjoyed a dedicated office with new furniture and all decorated to personal taste. I've never had that in almost 32 years. The physical office was always cobbled up from a used furniture pool...mostly in poor condition. As such, I've never felt particularly attached to a company physical office. My home office is orders of magnitude better. I don't miss the commute either.

[Cobra64]

Take a look at a Tesla plant video.

[MachIV]

I detest work from home atleast as done on a regular basis. If someone is at home and something comes up at the office such as an issue with physical received mail, whover is at the office ends up having todeal with it even if said mail is some other coworkers responsibility and it royally is starting to piss me the #@$% off at my current office.

[House Atreides]

“ Roughly two-thirds (66%) of 700 financial executives who worked remotely part time said they would quit their jobs if they were forced to return to the office five days a week”
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And probably 90% of that “two-thirds” group were lying in the survey. CALL THEIR BLUFF and call them back to the office.

[qwerty1234]

>>2 in 3 finance workers would quit if flex work were taken away: Deloitte survey

Sure they would ....

[FreedomPoster]

I bet the real answer is they would find another job working remotely, not that they would quit.

[Alberta's Child]

I am dealing (indirectly) with this situation now. I serve on the board of directors of a company whose employees are resisting an effort to get them back into the office.

I am the only board member who has openly sided with the employees on this. My voice apparently carries some weight, because the company’s management has held off on doing anything about it.

[airborne]

My first thought was, how many of these positions could be done by AI?

[cgbg]

“CALL THEIR BLUFF and call them back to the office.”

Their “bluff” is that they would quit immediately.

The reality is that they would get the resumes out and quietly prepare for their next move.

In the meantime the bosses will be rewarded with low morale at best and outright sabotage at worst.

Brilliant plan.

;-)

[Sirius Lee]

Says Deloitte and its “assessmenting”

Well, the need to complete their assessmenting (noun) before they can decision (verb). And one decisioning (noun) is completed they can action (noun).

I hate corporate cant.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "2 in 3 finance workers would quit if flex work were taken away: Deloitte survey and not be missed by most of us.....

[mac_truck]

Quitting may not be a choice for these slackers as the financial industry is overdue for downsizing.

[Bernard]

Roughly two-thirds (66%) of 700 financial executives who worked remotely part time said they would quit their jobs if they were forced to return to the office five days a week,

Quit and do what? are these people independently wealthy, or would they become social media influencers, or start their own business? That survey headline is a noise in a vacuum.

[T.B. Yoits]

CALL THEIR BLUFF and call them back to the office.

There is no "back to the office" for employees who are several states away. In addition, our remote employees are far better than our locals. It's not even close.

Some industries had a large percentage of employees working remotely prior to the Scamdemic. IT in particular is one. These other industries just caught up to where they could have been a decade earlier.