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Employers who force staff to return to the office five days a week have been called the “dinosaurs of our age” by one of the world’s leading experts who coined the term “presenteeism”.

Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School, said employers imposing strict requirements on staff to be in the office risked driving away talented workers, damaging the wellbeing of employees and undermining their financial performance.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

after employees with decades of experience left the company for remote work jobs.

Corporate still won. Those were the most expensive employees, and companies are proving time and time again that they just want output and not quality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate your opinion, but they most definitely didn't. It wasn't just a few people. It was a lot of people in a relatively short time, and they didn't always give two weeks notice. The higher ups saw the writing on the wall.

Also, they aren't 100% profit-driven, because they're not publicly traded, so they have more incentive to sometimes improve working conditions just for the sake of morale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I was basing my opinion on what some of the FAANG companies were doing to get rid of veteran staff by giving them the WFH ultimatum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah thankfully, it's not complete corporate hell (just partial).