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They’ve Observed Teleworking for Four Years and Reached One Clear Conclusion: “Working From Home Makes Us Happier” (indiandefencereview.com)

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[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

A hard truth is that if you see an executive pushing return to office, you know one of two things about them. One of the following is true.

They are terrible at finance and don't understand the sunk-cost fallacy. They have to keep using that building they bought; they've spent so much on it and simply can't bring themselves to sell it.
They're a sexual molester. They're someone that uses the power of their position to coerce sex out of their employees. Fucking their employees is their primary motivation for not retiring early right now. You can't coerce your secretary to give you a blowjob over Zoom.

That's really it. They're either bad at business or they're a sexual predator. If you see an executive pushing return to office, be sure to ask them which one of these they are. Because they're definitely one or the other.

[-] mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Honestly I think your first point is just a subset of something larger and even more basic - "we've always done it this way. Change is scawwy. Different bad. Are you implying I was wrong before?" Etc.

[-] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Tradition.
Belief that work-from-home is less efficient.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

They're morons and terrible at business.

[+] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works -8 points 6 months ago

Remote didn't work as well for the company.
Remote didn't work as well for any number of people at that company.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Found the executive.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

We have work from home, i have gone to the office twice this year. But it is true it didn't work for everyone. Some left because of isolation factor, some fired because without anyone watching they just could not self motivate. In some case in-office meetings are way more productive, and you get those moments when a coworker overhears your convo and chimes in with something relevent that you would never have connection on in WFH

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While there are a few that work better in an office, the overwhelming majority work better at home. Why should we force everyone to suffer for the handful of folks who can't self-motivate at home? We don't bend over backwards to cater to people who say, have auditory issues that make working in a crowded open-plan office debilitating. We tell those folks to go die in a fire if they can't handle an office environment. Plenty of people can't work in an office, but that was never been seen as an argument to get rid of offices.