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Why are folks still writing these articles? Everybody knows this. Companies can no longer shocked-pikachu their way through this. If you enforce RTO, your top
by maxehmookau 3y ago
Why are folks still writing these articles? Everybody knows this.
Companies can no longer shocked-pikachu their way through this. If you enforce RTO, your top performers (who are top performers wherever they are) will leave for somewhere that allows them to maintain a decent work-life balance and no commute to a soulless office.
- Freedom2 3y agoManagement needs thought-piece articles like these, and a lot of them, for any kind of concept to get through to their brains.
- maxehmookau 3y agoI'm in the wrong industry. Maybe I need to give up software engineering and start writing think pieces for other team's managers stating the obvious.
- zarathustreal 3y agoConsidering that the topic has already been discussed ad nauseum, my best guess is that it's a sort of indirect effect of the never-ending struggle to influence culture. I'd guess it's related to the ongoing layoffs and the larger economic changes. RTO is often speculated as a way to force people to quit to avoid having to fire them (and I completely agree that it is.) This article just happens to be written to appeal more toward the worker, probably as a way to gain wider appeal and promote virality considering that the actual data is so weak. Granted, it does confirm my own biases so it's getting my upvote. I wonder what it would take to create a society where we could vote on things based on the objective truth rather than needing to vote based on what we would like the narrative to be