Yes I was always very annoyed by the return to office push in part because at home I have a private office and at the actual office I was in an open plan bullpen that was full of distractions. Bosses who mandate working in open plan configurations always assign themselves offices with doors
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I just love the fig-leaf idea that the REAL issue with WFH is impeding "creativity". Like, we forced you commute in 45 minutes of shitty traffic and sullenly sit under buzzing fluorescent lights because we've determined that's the optimum environment for fostering creativity.
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Good for productivity ✅
- RTO
- Layoffs
- Offshoring
- Outsourcing
- AI slop
Bad for productivity ❌
- A quiet, comfortable working environment
What do you mean I’ve gotta coordinate someone’s desk and track their days in office? What’s that got to do with
1) companies move jobs from a city like Chicago to a city like Dallas (very relevant to Dimon
2) Cities basically give up on transit
(in a way that you don't get when you're on fury road in your car)
Nor have I seen claims that people were churning hours without doing more work.
But there was a lot of, e.g., associates demanding statements supporting BLM.
Related: the fanbase yokels love this shit because REAL MEN
My prior employer owns four campuses in town and in 2023 forced me to come in, but put me in a different campus than my team. It was a WFH job with a commute.
These bastards are ruining it for those of us that have to go into work, too
Also, they hired remote people and mandated RTO and those people don’t have seats and they have nowhere to put them.
It’s patently obvious that not only is the work getting done, but it’s getting done well.
...which ALSO suggests, given his phone comment, that a 4-day work week also wouldn't cause a problem.
It’s not 1925. They need to adapt.
I wonder if a certain segment associates WFH with "decadent, child-free people" or some sort
Funnily enough, WFH fixed that!
The part that really makes me angry is these same people feel entitle to your personal details, against your will.
open-plan = good luck finding a spot for that impromptu chat that doesn't distract others
running between rooms/buildings = meetings start late and run over
commute time = lost time
commuting = distracted people looking at traffic towards EOD
Even then, someone with an ego will commandeer those breakout rooms as an office unless the whole leadership team nips it in the bud