Posted on 10/08/2024 5:14:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's been more than four years since the pandemic hit the U.S. and made remote work commonplace, and as companies continue to try to lure employees back to the office, some workers say they are ignoring the pleas.
A new survey from ResumeBuilder.com found one in five workers admit they are not following their employer's return-to-office (RTO) policies, with some acknowledging they leave early or even solicit a colleague to swipe or sign them in during their absence – and the most common policy-violators are those who work a hybrid schedule. In the survey that polled more than 1,000 workers, 20% of respondents said they would leave their job if their employer started cracking down further on compliance with RTO rules, and another 33% said they were somewhat likely to follow suit.
When asked about the findings, Stacie Haller, chief career advisor at ResumeBuilder said today’s workforce is seeking greater flexibility and control over how they work, and they now have more choices than ever before.
"Many employees resist returning to the office full time due to the increased costs associated with commuting and the impact on their work-life balance," Haller told FOX Business. "The added expenses of travel, meals, and services like pet sitting or extra childcare are often viewed as a reduction in their take-home pay, making the return-to-office policy feel like a salary cut."
The survey results also pointed to the challenges workers have with their current RTO policies, with the top being commute time (45%), lack of flexibility in work hours (34%) and commute cost (33%). Workers said a raise, flexible start and end times, and transportation benefits would improve their satisfaction with their current RTO policy.
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cats can be hard to herd.
I’ve been saying for 4+ years that employers have nobody to blame for this but themselves. They never should have sent all these workers home in the first place back in 2020.
“”Many employees resist returning to the office full time due to the increased costs associated with commuting and the impact on their work-life balance,”
If you don’t like it start your own business.
I must have missed something here. Employers set the work conditions. If it means being at the office or shop to earn a paycheck, then the employee is obligated to do so.
If they choose not to, then they are fired for cause and replaced. It’s really simple.
Corporate profits are at an all time high and inflation-adjusted wages have been flat since 1971 even as the GDP and productivity have exploded.
As well as it being expected that exemp employees will put in 60-70 hour weeks while being replaced by offshore/H1-Bs and only getting paid for 40 hours.
Sounds like a bunch of spoiled useless managers on this thread.
You did; employment is a two-way agreement between parties, not indentured servitude or serfdom.
For warm-body jobs, sure, be there under the conditions or find another job. Works great if your office is in ThirdWorldia where there are tens of thousands of bodies with spurious degrees waiting to replace the last one, or if you’re happy rolling off Americans to replace them with ‘newcomers’ who dare not question anything.
For skilled people, tossing away the investment in a person and trying to find an equivalent, and then rebuild institutional knowledge while not ruining morale among the other skilled workers, well. Go look up the cost to an IT or engineering company to even hire someone, or an expert plumber or electrician or mechanic. That’s even assuming the new guy will take the same pay. Might not cost you too much if you’re only looking for someone to hold up the water cooler and not a star.
This part where the worker is something more than a disposable cog really grates on the free-trade and globalist crowd; thus the H1Bs and endless open borders.
Except it isn’t that simple. WFH proved that working in office is not necessary for many jobs, and without a compelling reason beyond “I said so”, many will just find another job. My team is scattered across the globe, and I would be sitting by myself in the office staring at Teams meetings like I do now from home. No way I am adding 2 hours to my workday to commute when I can do this from home.
Those people are bums. Fire them like Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter employees.
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