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Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds (www.spokesman.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds::Three years after the coronavirus pandemic sent people to work from home in record numbers, U.S. employers are still struggling to get people back to the office.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's much harder to hide corruption when everything is being recorded!

As an anecdote I work in a 20 person team and we hardly have any managers nor meetings. I honestly haven't even seen many of my coworkers I work with daily but we all keep loads of records from boards, to RFCs to traditional docs and wrap that all up with daily stand-ups. We're incredibly productive.

Remote is amazing when done well and I don't see how any CEO could say otherwise with a straight face. It saves so much money that all the "connection" gaps can be easily filled in with team building and workations and other events.

It is the future, well its already the present but many haven't caught up to it yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The argument I see in articles is engagement. Remote workers are less likely to give feedback and are less loyal to the company they say.

I'm not sure remote work is responsible for that. There have been enough meetings where everybody in the office just nods along and loyalty went out the window after layoff waves became normal.

Although there is a camaraderie that is easier to build in office that keeps people around a bit longer, office politics also erodes that goodwill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Companies themselves are responsible for less loyalty to the company. If a company doesn't take care of their employees they never deserved their loyalty to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

As someone who has been remote since 2020, I can definitely say I have far less loyalty to my employer than I did before. But my feeling is that I had far too much loyalty before, not that I don't have enough now.

My quality of life has nothing but improved since going remote, and I can only hope that opportunity grows for more people in the future.