80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’
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As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
  • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    They knew. They say that because they don’t actually want to fulfill their employees needs.

    We want to WFH because we dont want a 2hr unpayed commute. The way that ks fixed is for employees to consider the commute part of their 9-5 but that means we are really only doing 10-4 with an hour from lunch.

    We want WFH because our lunch breaks don’t easily get taken over by meetings because we arent sitting at our desk of the break room. The hour is an actual hour you can’t contact me so more “lost time”.

    With WFH its harder to keep people around after hours as they can quickly mark their chat so to afk. That means no more 4:30 pop ins saying we need to stay late.

    Turns out that when your employees can force their work time no one givea away free time. When you end WFH and try to squeeze out more time you’re going to piss off a lot of people.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      153·
      1 year ago

      The way that ks fixed is for employees to consider the commute part of their 9-5 but that means we are really only doing 10-4 with an hour from lunch.

      Who the fuck works from 9 to 5? Dolly Parton?

      • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The devs that still work at the place I started at 20 years ago. They actually have a start time of 8 and are expected to stay until 5. Earliest meeting scheduling times are at 8:30 and latest starts at 4:30. Oh and they pay horrible. But its difficult to get fired there.

          • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Its the middle of no where. To find a similar job i had to move out of state 300+ miles away.

            Most of the people who work there half the household income (i was yhe only income in our house) and they all were 40+ and didnt have expectations of doing more in their lives. They all had pensions (mine got cut at a stupid low number before it ended). It was only younger people leaving who were drowning.

    • SlopppyEngineer
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, they’re just sad it didn’t work as expected and it makes them look bad.