why are companies doing “return to office”?
what are they worried about?
To save commercial real estate
thx!
Corporate culture suffers if majority work from home. And people (not necessarily majority) figured a way to game the system by slacking, over-employment, quiet quitting etc.
thanks! corporate culture suffers - why? because of miscommunications? also what do u mean over-employment?
This. My current team is all rto and it’s night and day compared to my previous team. Much more efficient to talk through problems in person than on video chat. And just more fun to spend time at the office. Of course depends on your teammates. Overemployment means getting more than one full time job and slacking at all your jobs.
I have confirmation from upper management at Snap that an unspoken reason for our latest full RTO policy is a desire for attrition. The company thinks that the market is bad enough for engineers that they can do what they want and if people leave, there will be 20 others looking to join. Which is true…but also super shortsighted.
They never wanted remote and don't feel like they are effective leaders in remote situations.
they never wanted remote - so was covid the only reason we did remote? (might be obvious question..)
Pressure from real estate
gotta watch over the slaves
Trying to get employees to quit. People are definitely slacking as well. We did large RTO, folks didn’t quit, now we did massive layoffs in areas we have offices.
thanks!
i’m just wondering tho - are you being sarcastic or do you really think it’s one of reasons?