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They sent around a form at my work asking everyone what their preference would be. The first guy replied to everyone with his preference: 100% wfh. Since he rep
by fartcannon 5y ago
They sent around a form at my work asking everyone what their preference would be. The first guy replied to everyone with his preference: 100% wfh. Since he replied-all, so did everyone else. We got through about 20 employees, all stating their preference as WFH before a manager shut down the reply-all.
A week later we got an email saying people wanted 2-3 days in office.
- cableshaft 5y agoYep, a blatant and botched attempt at manufactured consent right there. If you want to stick it to them you should put out an informal poll with all employees and publish those results separate, show everyone how the company is lying to you.
- frumper 5y agoThat sounds about right, except my organization landed on full return to office for nebulous "business reasons"
- heavyset_go 5y ago> except my organization landed on full return to office for nebulous "business reasons" Multiyear leases and/or real estate investments.
- ryandrake 5y agoHilarious! I wonder (not really) if they would have kept the reply-all going if the consensus response was "2-3 days"... Sounds like a case of a survey with only one correct answer.
- rpmisms 5y agoYeah, never did the chain email in my old job, but every single person I talked to wanted to stay remote. Management said "We're hearing that people want to come back to the office". After that, headcount dropped from ~40 to ~28, including me.
- apozem 5y agoThis reminds me of a saying I read on Stratechery: Workers tweet, managers email. Public discussions are good for, you know, the public. Keeping things private just means the manager is the only one who knows the whole picture.