No c-suite manager I've ever known would be so easily convinced by cold, hard facts like that. If they have their mind set on RTO, they're going to do it no matter how detrimental it would be to worker morale/productivity.
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Ah yes. At long last, after all these years! It is time for the putting-out system to make a comeback!
The truth underlying that joke is that you are more productive when you are comfortable and people tend to be most comfortable at home.
you are more productive when you are comfortable
I might argue the real productivity gain is coming from the elimination of the commute. Its less strictly comfort of the home office and more the elimination of the need to travel long distances in a car before and after work. You can "show up" early and "stay late" when its a matter of walking in and out of a room in your house, rather than traveling 20 miles on a packed freeway.
Most commutes are under half an hour. Comfort over an 8 hour day will have a far greater impact on productivity than not sitting in a car for 25 minutes before you get to work.
Use to commute 2 hours each way. 1/6 of my day travelling to and from a soulless corporate hellhole, just to be a fucken cog.
I know a guy that still does that.
The average commute in the US is just under 27 minutes or so. So while those commutes do exist, they aren't typical.
I used to commute that for school and at least I got a lot of reading done. I feel your pain. But I can only do so much reading before losing my mind. Lol
Most commutes are under half an hour.
Not in Houston.
I know it's hard to believe this but most of the US does exist outside of Texas.
No idea what you're talking about.
I've been in traffic in California and Florida, and it doesn't get much better.
There are still 47 other states. I know I know, it's hard to believe but most of the US is not in Texas California and Florida. Most people's commute is still about 27 minutes.
You had me at bathrobe.
As long as your are doing your job it shouldn't matter what the fuck you are doing.
Exactly why drug testing (with exception of stuff like people operating heavy machinery) is bullshit.
If you are working an office job and you want to go into the bathroom and shoot up at lunch but you can still do your job, why should anyone give a shit?
The worst part is you can get stinking drunk before you piss in that cup and that wouldn't make a difference.
Exactly why drug testing (with exception of stuff like people operating heavy machinery) is bullshit.
Can't find the context, but there's a one-off line about a small company being bought up by a bigger corporate entity. The CEO was asked about his drug testing policy. He responded, "if we tested our staff then we'd lose half our workforce... and it would be our better half".
On the flip side, I think a lot of the drug culture in the tech, law, and finance sectors is legit horrifyingly toxic. The boozing and bumping and microdosing becomes a way of squeezing extra effort out of your workers, while blunting the immediate consequences of accumulated stress and overwork.
A large population of professions that feel compelled to self-medicate on a regular basis is covering up some deeper chronic physical and psychological problems. Same with the huge swaths of gulf coast and industrial midwest that rolled from oxy to heroin to fent over the last twenty years. Heavy drug use often operates as a whipping boy for more pervasive and insidious social problems - lead poisoning, extreme social anxiety, treatment for PTSD.
The theory is that if you have time to jack off and still get your work done they must not be giving you enough work.
That's not how 'human' works.
Doesn't matter. If I'm doing my job and doing it well and making the quotas then management can mind their own damn business.
I hear you, but they take that as proof that their quotas aren't high enough.
Which is proof they're lobotomized by corporate culture and effectively dead inside.
Husks.
RTO: Return To Orgasm
Post nut clarity applied to business decisions is like cheating
The CEO was asked about his drug testing policy. He responded, “if we tested our staff then we’d lose half our workforce… and it would be our better half”.
Look up 'Post-nut clarity is synonymous with Royce du Pont' I'd link but they're mostly on instagram reel, youtube shorts or tiktok. I don't know which one you want to check out via.
Every day I have to make so many decisions that by Lunch I'd be like "The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised"
The product increase is not solely a commercially viable one
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