Assuming youre not a quiet quitter , youre not double dipping and you have some interest in your job. I'm pretty sure WFH is more productive and efficient. I'm pretty sure corporate knows this as well. They might even have the numbers to prove it but don't wanna show it. BUT i think the reason they want us to return is that if we stay home.. we will use the efficiency and productivity gains to optimize our personal lives and not the bottom line. It would change white collar culture fundamentally and that would not be good for the status quo.
Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
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Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#72Company I work for implemented more RTO recently and when someone asked in an all hands for data showing that the first RTO decision was leading to an improvement in productivity or some other key metric and the CTO responded saying (paraphrasing) “this isn’t a data based decision leadership is making. It’s because we want to build a culture where people are working next to each other more frequently. We FEEL that th…
I’ve been WFH 100% (aside from the occasional 1-week remote offsite) for over 10 years. I will always want to work somewhere that is at the very least supportive of distributed teams, if not remote-first. I also chime in on HN articles like this with an endorsement for remote work. And I also agree that execs are biased, and either ignore or are blatantly against any supporting evidence for remote work. Having said a…
I will never work in an office again but I suspect that the good/hard workers, are slightly more productive with work from home and are happier if they want to work remote.
The slackers though are slacking much more with WFH. At least in the office they have to pretend to be productive and that ultimately results in additional productivity.
There has to be scaling laws at work here. I work for a very small company and it is quite obvious who is slacking off remote. In a large company, it is probably much easier for the slackers to hide their lack of productivity.
Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#73Executives of really high ranks know the modern city is the way for them to thrive because SMEs and Citizens thrive living spread, giants thrive in big cities where there is no middle class, only service slaves. Other executives are obedient slaves, being well trained to be to the point they can't recognize their real status, who simply follow the high ranking ones.
The reality is complex but we can easily simplify that with full WFH most cities, the biggest first, will be emptied from the middle class, with them in homes outside from Just Eat to Uber to Wymo are dead, large slice of travel and accommodation services are dead as well, real estate for giants is dead (actually it's already nearly-dead under ICU) while the 2030 Agenda's will fail because those outside owning a home, p.v., car etc feel the opportunity to own and can't easily be impoverished just changing service prices.
This will happen anyway because we haven't enough resources in the world to build smart-cities and we can't keep up for long the actual ones, but if happen quickly too many will still own to form a new working economy, if happen too late only very few will own enough so there will be anyway no distributed economy.
I suggest anyone to rediscover the old Distributism and speculate why both nazism, fascism etc and marxism was against the middle class in particular.
Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#74Company I work for implemented more RTO recently and when someone asked in an all hands for data showing that the first RTO decision was leading to an improvement in productivity or some other key metric and the CTO responded saying (paraphrasing) “this isn’t a data based decision leadership is making. It’s because we want to build a culture where people are working next to each other more frequently. We FEEL that th…
The C-Suite is so highly paid and lives such a comfortable life that they can't even fathom how much productivity is lost by the average individual commuting for an hour and having to bounce for kids/family/home/medical issues. They truly don't understand why people may want to leave work, be at home when they themselves have ZERO chores to deal with. And they also don't understand why people are not as passionate as…
It's not much a matter of empathy, it's a matter of interests: if WFH is the norm, JustEat, Uber, Waymo and so on will be dead in seconds, preceded by large real estate, large hotel chains, ... essentially ALL big corps would loose more or less and many would simply default meanwhile SMEs would thrive.
A distributed economy is for many little and medium actors, a concentrated one for an oligarchy. The topmost of the current oligarchy knows that, their relatively near entourage simply slavishly follow their desires and concerns because so far it have paid well them.
Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#75Company I work for implemented more RTO recently and when someone asked in an all hands for data showing that the first RTO decision was leading to an improvement in productivity or some other key metric and the CTO responded saying (paraphrasing) “this isn’t a data based decision leadership is making. It’s because we want to build a culture where people are working next to each other more frequently. We FEEL that th…
It's always been like this, for every decision.
Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#76Completely different incentives. Executives are in those roles because their anxieties for control align with productivity for shareholders. The coercive threat is the whole point of executive management in private profit focused organizations. Researchers on the other hand are not as interested in maintaining the power distribution bias. Rather they use “economic” factors like described in the article to describe wh…
Could you please link the studies you mention? I only have anecdotes so I am curious to see studies about bullying and intimidation.
Re: Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
#77Its really hard to force employees into sexual relationships with the "big boss" when everyone is working hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The awesome thing about not going to the office is that I no longer have to deal with repressed nerds and tech bros. I hate being asked out for coffee after I say no for the third time. I no longer have to deal with them looking at my body or making casual sexist jokes.