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They are unhappy for sure, and are all copying each other because they are afraid of making the wrong move. They looked at what Musk did with Twitter with grea
by fullshark 3y ago
They are unhappy for sure, and are all copying each other because they are afraid of making the wrong move. They looked at what Musk did with Twitter with great interest I'm sure, looking for lessons for example to carry over, as one of the few leaders willing to stick his neck out. I don't believe there's major orchestration but it is true when everyone's on each other boards an incestuous common sense/wisdom tends to emerge about what needs to happen and what the justification will be, and I'm sure they all believe it's inevitable all the companies move back towards full time on site.
- ryandrake 3y agoWhether it's deliberate collusion or everyone just happening to be uncreatively following each other, the outcome is the same. That said, I've never seen Corporate America so universally aligned on a single thing than they are aligned on "Workers must return to the office." Definitely a tin-foil hat theory, but it really does strongly feel like they're all sitting in the same smoky room somewhere, making sure they all do the same thing in lock step.
- candiodari 3y agoFollowing Twitter seems like a suboptimal move to me: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66217641 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66217641 And according to this the extreme tactics only destroyed Twitter, they did not even achieve an actual return to office. https://archive.md/GvzCX https://archive.md/GvzCX (original link: https://fortune.com/2023/03/24/return-to-office-elon-musk-twitter-tesla-layoffs/ https://fortune.com/2023/03/24/return-to-office-elon-musk-tw... ) Add to that that Twitter is now letting go of office space as well. Now some of that is due to layoffs, but it could also mean Mr. Musk is not even expecting RTO to work at Twitter, or at least not to the extent he planned.