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RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)

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RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.

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

If I had a job where I could work from home I think I'd rather be in the office most of the time but I would appreciate the flexibility. I just really hate zoom meetings. I find most in person meetings can be done a little more spur of the moment and you are in and out in 5-15 minutes where the scheduled zoom meetings are an hour of some upper manager droning on in an attempt to justify their existence.

I'm much happier that 99% of the time I'm physically working on machines and not in face to face or zoom meetings but that's just been my experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah but when you're trying to get some work done, do you like having people interrupting you for 5-15 minutes?

There are days when I go into the office and the bosses aren't there. On those days I think "good, I can actually get some work done today."

I suppose it depends on the kind of work you do, but for many kinds of work, any kind of meeting represents a loss in productivity. Impromptu meetings, even if shorter, can be worse because it interrupts what I'm doing.