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Everyone who is forced to go back should probably spend a bit of time on this site - https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/881.html
Slow things down, make it hurt for them. Not enough to get fired, but if everyone does it, it will affect the bottom line.
I genuinely fucking hate this shit. Like, for real. These fuckers want everyone in the office for the most bullshit reasons. They all have their reasons and they're all bullshit. One I heard recently was "innovation happens in the office." Innovation happens by ignoring the innovations that allow us to work remotely? By insisting we all waste massive amounts of time commuting? By wasting money renting huge office buildings in prime real estate locations?
Thing is, corporate ownership also owns a lot of commercial real estate. This push is entirely about saving that investment.
It’s for control. Same reason companies support administrating health insurance. It’s massively complicated and expensive but it enables control over the workforce.
And… it’s the physical manifestation of the hierarchy supporting exec and investor ‘king’ egos over their proverbial kingdom.
Most execs are also extroverts and run their businesses through personal relationships and experiences. And of course, the company pays for their commutes, housing, meals, and all the other reasons you and others have posted about. It’s advantageous, for them.
For companies like this, that's true, but I see this push from tons of companies who don't have a stake in that and just rent their office. Maybe it's about saving the value on long term leases for them?
Even if the company itself doesn't own any, the investors or lenders will. Thus they will have considerable pressure coming from higher up to force people back to the office, or lose that source of money.
Another couple of reasons:
A) It gets people to quit, so the company doesn't have to fire them
B) It selects for those who are loyal, allowing them to filter out those that are unwilling to be pushed around
You're missing the "management's only purpose is to pressure people to work, if people do that at home without management...."
Man probably “works” from the golf course.
This is one case where I feel no sorrow. People who pursue their BBA/MBA are the worst and try to network themselves up to heaven. They chose this path knowing just how fickle it could be.
Other RTO, yeah, screw the person at top.
CEOs and upper management people are acting like children these days. They just want to implement things they don’t understand the consequences of, yet when they get any kind of resistance they lose their shit. I’m just dumbfounded by this behavior because it makes me wonder what could happen if these people were replaced with people who actually care about the work itself and the quality of it. Y’know, the whole reason we have workplaces.
Shareholder revolt, honestly. The rich shareholders benefit from these sorts of idiots, at least in the short term.
It's because they've been too insulated from the violence that used to be incumbent in the wake of such asinine and harmful labor decisions. The decorum of the last 50 years has led these Boomers to think they are invulnerable.
I keep wondering how much more CEOs, billionaires and massive corporations (along with the current administration) can push the American people before there is a backlash?
Right now Americans are like domestic violence victims and addicts
"Jamie is a good person, it was my fault for not coming back to the office that made things worse."
"Just one more subscription, I need to watch my shows!, I promise I'll quite after this season!"
When and what is the tipping point where people just say "Fuck it, I'm done." ?
This sort of backlash won't happen, though. There is a conservative culture war underway and it's win at all costs, damn the consequences. These are people who will continue to act against their own self interest.
Society is always about three missed meals away from blood in the streets.
Unfortunately if that’s the mind set Americans have there might never be a tipping point
Awake the sleeping giant, look it up.
Hey Jaime, you wouldn't have to have a giant portfolio full of office buildings by chance, would you?
Democracy! (but not in the workplace where you spend most of your awake time)
