The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit
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Re: The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit
#2The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
Re: The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit
#3The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
> The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
Rather, the ones who have the easiest time finding a new job will often be the first ones to quit. These are not necessarily the most competent ones because, for example, people who are better at self-promotion often do have it easier to find a new job, without necessarily being more competent.
Re: The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit
#4The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
Is this new information that CEOs dont know? Or just oft-repeated pablum?
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#5"My advice to the many CEOs tasked with this decision? Just own it."
It would be nice if we could get this level of honesty from CEOs - but let's not pretend that firing people is the only driver for RTO.
Some other motivations include:
- We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money
- We're getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses
- We've sunk cost into our little in-person fiefdom and upper management needs the powertrip to justify the headache that is working in upper management
So yes - the CEOs should just own "it", but so should the politicians and real estate owners/investors who are also concerned that their tax base or investment value don't hold up to this new model of working.
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#6> The problem is, in 2020, employees took these remote-work policy changes as an "implied" promise.
And that's where employees 'dun goofed. Unless they got permanent remote work in a written contract, this was all a temporary measure until the pandemic was over.
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#7The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
> The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit. Rather, the ones who have the easiest time finding a new job will often be the first ones to quit. These are not necessarily the most competent ones because, for example, people who are better at self-promotion often do have it easier to find a new job, without necessarily being more competent.
> Rather, the ones who have the easiest time finding a new job will often be the first ones to quit.
Doesn't that mean the layoff is as humane as possible? It means you inflict the least amount of suffering you could.
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#8The problems with voluntary layoffs like that is the most competent people are always the first ones to quit.
That may be a possibility with regular mass layoffs, because it indicates a company in trouble.
However, that’s probably not the case for companies that were laying off people earlier this year despite making record profits (I think most people understood that many of the more profitable companies had overhired over the pandemic) and unlikely to be a driver in RTO driven “layoffs” since they’re not layoffs in the first place and say nothing about employees job security.
RTO driven “layoffs” would be the people who don’t live near the office.
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#9Um every big company RTO hard announcement was followed by mass layoffs. Their hope was to get a chunk out before the announcement to lower the severance numbers.
In any case, I personally like being at the office with lots of WFH flexibility.
Re: The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit
#10The problem with this idea is that the highest performers are the group most likely to quit.