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When the recession hits, yanking hybrid away and demanding full time is an easy way to both A) easily cut staff that cant show up to the office easily (so prese
by namelessoracle 4y ago
When the recession hits, yanking hybrid away and demanding full time is an easy way to both A) easily cut staff that cant show up to the office easily (so preselected layoffs) and B) have massive leverage to force the issue sense they cant just go quit to make 20k more now in response
- xt00 4y agoYea came here to say the same thing -- you can just imagine the executive level conversations.. "the company is really struggling, and here are these bozo's sitting at home enjoying their life while I am stressed out in this board room... we need to be all rowing the boat in the same direction, and the only way I can see us doing that is by seeing everybody else stressed out along with me at the office..." so yea.. unless the management is also work from home, you can pretty much guess that a recession will cause a whole bunch of "well, when we said work from home forever, we meant like, ya know while the company was running fine.."
- Spooky23 4y agoThat was the IBM and GE playbook, right? I used to work with them a lot in a past role, and the remote guys seemed to get disappeared much more quickly than the folks who had a home base. When your boss is in Brazil or whatever and gets a savings target, he sorts a spreadsheet by salary and utilization and poof!