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Seems most of these top down driven mandates could be explained by some simple logic—if you don’t like your job very much as CEO, then you are thinking “man I w
by xt00 3y ago
Seems most of these top down driven mandates could be explained by some simple logic—if you don’t like your job very much as CEO, then you are thinking “man I wish I didn’t have to be here”.. and then it starts resentment toward people who also aren’t suffering along with you.. basically these mandates seem likely to be driven by stress at the top of the management, not based upon actual data. If you are asking for data that means you aren’t in charge sadly.
- siftrics 3y agoWhile I agree with your reasoning, it's pretty ironic to blame top management for making changes "not based upon actual data" in the middle of a speculative claim that, itself, is not based upon actual data.
- xt00 3y agoGood point -- one thing that would be interesting would be a postmortem at some point from a group of CEO's or somebody "in the know" who is able to get to the root of the issue so we can go beyond speculation. These people are typically in power positions that don't require explaining so often we get phrases like "I've thought hard about it and I've made a decision", where the real reasoning is left for people to guess at. Probably the main data we will eventually get will be when there are 2 companies that are in similar areas where one is full remote and the other has big office buildings in a downtown someplace.
- rco8786 3y ago> basically these mandates seem likely to be driven by stress at the top of the management, not based upon actual data. If you are asking for data that means you aren’t in charge sadly. Data is great and all (and I'm not defending this particular decision), but at leadership levels you have to make judgment calls all the time even in the face of data that may say otherwise.
- aeze 3y agoWhat you're describing is generally how bad decisions are made.
- rco8786 3y agoYep! And great decisions. That’s the rub. It’s a total fallacy to think that following the data is automatically better than alternatives. Data is often incomplete, always messy, and can be manipulated to paint lots of conflicting views.
- RestlessMind 3y agoQuestion is who should provide data? That depends on your assumption about defaults. For most of the leadership, they have thrived and raised in an office environment. So mandating RTO is return to normalcy from their POV. If you think remote is awesome, it is on you to provide data that remote works.
- dnissley 3y agoAndy Jassy's net worth is hundreds of millions of dollars. There's nothing stopping the guy from stepping down if he really hated his job. This speculation flies in the face of available evidence.