#RemoteWork #TalentRetention #GartnerStudy
📊 According to a recent Gartner study, enforced return-to-office mandates may not be worth the talent risks. 🏢
❓ What are your thoughts on this? How is your company approaching the return-to-office dilemma?
💡 Possible solution:
– Offer flexible hybrid work options 🏠💻
– Communication and collaboration tools 📱💬
– Focus on outcomes and productivity rather than hours worked ⏰📈
Let’s discuss how we can navigate the ever-evolving landscape of work priorities together! 🌟 #FutureOfWork #RemoteJobs
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My wife’s office is going through a RTO mandate right now. The only reason the company gives is “company culture” and “interpersonal relationships” meanwhile, all the departments are meeting or exceeding their goals, and the office building where they work literally does not have enough parking spaces to accommodate everyone. There I talk of making people park off site and shuttle to the main building. Now all the talk between the employees is “why are we being punished” and “does anyone know someone hiring”
They don’t care. Corporations are not efficient. They do not behave rationally or ethically. They do not exist to support the needs of people or a society.
They want less overhead. RTO is a means to less overhead. RTO is a way to maintain corporate real estate value. RTO is a way to maintain tax breaks.
They don’t care if they provide quality service, or well paying jobs. We’ve seen companies have their stocks going down, we’ve seen people fleeing their places of work over this, and they don’t care. The people making the decisions will keep all the money, and continue to work from home,
as the lower level employees toil and customers flee (if they can). And they’ll just stay in business.
What’s going to happen? The stock will go down slightly, and they’ll reduce headcount, borrow against real estate assets, and demand tax breaks via corporate extortion.
This is a good article to leave near your leadership. Gartner has a decent reputation with older management (the Gartner 4 quadrants was the plague in IT decisions).
When your primary requirement for an employee is to come in and sit at this desk, that’s what you’re going to get.
You’re taking a boatload of extra hours from me and a big chunk of my salary expecting me to come here everyday and sit at this desk. But you expect the same level of performance? Dream on.
RTO is simply to prop up the commercial real estate industry imo