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Are people still going to try to blame office lease agreements for management wanting workers back in the office? When are remote workers going to start blamin
by senttoschool 3y ago
Are people still going to try to blame office lease agreements for management wanting workers back in the office?
When are remote workers going to start blaming themselves? Clearly, companies big and small are recalling their workers back to their office. Clearly, they have data showing that their productivity metrics have declined. Tech management are usually very data-driven compared to other industries. So if they're recalling workers, then they must see something.
The simplest explanation is that remote/hybrid culture is less productive on some metric - whether it's total company output or less creativity or whatever it is. So while an individual remote worker might perceive himself or herself as being more productive, they often do not think at the level of the total company output.
And no, they aren't going to come out and explicitly say that their WFH workers are lazier and less productive. That's just bad PR. But you can infer what management is seeing from their actions.
- bediger4000 3y agoIf companies have such metrics, they'd use them as part of the rationale for RTO. Nobody states anything other than "culture" or "casual synergy" or some other hand wavy stuff. I conclude they don't have such metrics.
- senttoschool 3y agoThey'd never come out and say "We are recalling our workers because we have data showing they're less productive while working from home.". Saying something like that would cause a lot of bad PR. Piss off your workers even more. The media, pro-WFH people, HN will pan the company for saying something like that. There's no winning for the company to take this risk. It's best to say something generic like "culture".
- RestlessMind 3y ago"culture" is not hand wavy. It's literally the single most important aspect of any enterprise.
- RestlessMind 3y agoThanks for saying this. Another popular canard is tax breaks for RTO. However, I don't see many SV cities offering tax breaks to companies for having their employees in office. In fact, big employers in these cities provide meals and other perks on campus such that employees don't really boost any city tax revenue. So I wonder which cities offer these breaks?