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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] 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's down to the individual really. A guy I worked with did WFH 99% of the time. Only saw him in the office maybe 3 times a year. That dude got a lot of shit done, it was crazy.

Personally I found during the pandemic when I was WFH for many months I found it difficult to keep motivated. After a while the concept of work became abstract. But if I'm going into work once per week, that seems to avoid that.

Other people just can't work at all from home at all. Too many distractions.

Then there's cases like someone I know who WFH all the time and gets a lot done, but simply doesn't like. She wants to come into the office to talk with people sometimes. But the company she works for doesn't want that.

But I think it's simply management doesn't want to think of people as individuals. Instead they just want a blanket policy so they can just say "the rules are the rules" and not have to think about what works for the individual. They don't want to, you know... manage people.