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Corporate managers need to run the following exercise: 1) Quantify the loss in productivity from employees working from home. Call this "x." 2) Calculate the
by game_the0ry 6y ago
Corporate managers need to run the following exercise:
1) Quantify the loss in productivity from employees working from home. Call this "x."
2) Calculate the savings in rent you don't have to pay for putting the company's employees in an office. Call this "y."
3) If x < y, pass on savings to shareholders, take your bonus, and have a nice day.
4) Explore hiring candidates outside of major metros and see if you can pay them less.
Will not happen, of course. The modern corporate middle manager thrives as a sycophant, constantly praising their bosses / and boss's bosses - yes sir / ma'am, how high would you like me to jump for my bonus? Thus, they are desperate to get back into the office and play that sweet, sweet game of "office politics." Also, they probably leased additional space for more tech and digital marketing workers, so they are trying to not regret that decision.
- rwmj 6y agoWhat loss of productivity is that? Knowledge workers get a whole lot more done when they're not being constantly interrupted in an open plan office.
- game_the0ry 6y agox can be negative.
- Terretta 6y agoSo call it gain and have X positive. Even the folks in non-tech jobs who hate WFH, griping about missing look-em-in-the-eyes managerialism, or how they can’t do management-by-walking-around, acknowledge the past few months have been more productive and curiously more collaborative (right people across national offices invited to “meetings” and able to attend). So actual productivity up, other factors important to Taylorist managers (but not to individual contributors) sharply down.