The real reason they want everyone back in the office.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/commercial-real-estate-crisis-empty-offices/674310/

To me, the biggest positive about remote work is that you don't have to live in a crazy expensive location. That advantage is mostly gone with hybrid where you still have to come in every week.

Also, companies benefit from having employees in less expensive locales having lower salaries but still being able to pay more than what the employee would otherwise make in that location. Good way to retain talent.

environments need to be duplicated between home and office

My work started """recommending""" that we come in 3 days a week. Not required, just recommended. They expect us to just carry all of our stuff back and forth between work and home every day. We don't have permanent desks. They are shared by design. We need to reserve them from a web page.

My team has been largely ignoring their """recommendation""" but I know it's only a matter of time before it's a requirement.

Amazon will discover what the rest of the market discovered, that unless they’re paying a big premium, employees will just go somewhere else. This is the real reason the VC types have been wishcasting a recession: with an unemployment rate that starts with “3” companies don’t have as much leverage as they’d like

Hybrid works, but you need to make sure that all relevant people are there to make it work. That usually means everyone in a department has to be in on a certain day and that people who interact with other departments are also in on certain days.

You have to maximize face time to make hybrid work.

As much as I enjoy working hybrid remote, it is not helping the business in the long run. My coworkers complain that there is less accountability and collaboration. Some can’t do their job properly because team members do not show up. There is no mentoring happening as these individuals pick and choose their days and sometimes don’t come in.

Hybrid is a bad in between for us and it is showing.

Now I see my coworkers starting to quit and switching to jobs that demand their employees in every day. Money is one reason but also they miss feeling part of a team which is important in my industry. My position isn’t team based so I’m fine either way and do feel better going in a few days a week so I’m not outcasted!

I feel my company is the last one in the industry with 3 day a week in the office structure. Not to sure what will change but I do know for a fact more coworkers will be leaving. 😢

But how can he reach maximum productivity if he's sitting down ?!

Its probably not even about productivity at this point but asserting control. People might start getting dangerous ideas like unions if they arent properly suppressed.

I’ve had a few jobs, all at smaller businesses and I am getting convinced employers are often of the same type of people. Very convinced of themselves, extroverted, believing everyone else isn’t giving their best, jealous of their employees time, wanting to create some kind of “team spirit” or loyalty to their business…. Employees not sitting in the office go against everything these people want.

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