80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’::As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
80% of bosses regret their initial return-to-office decisions and say they would have approached their plans differently if they had a better understanding of employees’ office attendance, their usage of office amenities and other related factors
In other words, if they’d tried, even just a little, to actually do their jobs.
Bunch of clowns.
I’ve never really accepted the theory that return to office pushes are driven by office maintenance costs, or whatever. Hell, those expenses go UP when everyone is back. Working from home takes away electrical usage, and mitigates janitorial demand. If productivity is up or equal, and building maintenance costs are down, then wtf is it really about?
It’s about ego. The boss doesn’t know how to make the company perform better, they’re all out of ideas. They have to change something to make it look like they’re doing something, so RTO is the low hanging fruit.
There’s really no more justification needed than that. Looking at practical benefits to explain RTO pushes won’t get you answers because the practical benefits are so slim and conditional relative to the strain it creates.
It’s all about ego. They self-identity as the hardcore alpha boss that deserves high pay because they “earn” it. So to massage that ego, they go into the office even though they dont need to, and are meeting with nobody there. It’s pointless but it feeds their ego.
So they feel alone at the office…and in that worldview they are hardworking (an assumed condition), and nobody else is there, therefore everyone else is not hardworking (regardless of how much work they’re actually doing).
I’m surprised people in this comments section aren’t aware of the real estate mob. It’s the oligarchy who are pushing for return to offices. They have valuable investments in both big companies and the real estate, and they don’t want to see the values of their assets going down.
Somebody posted about this on lemmy a week or so ago. I’ll see if I can find it.
Don’t worry, they will divest now while it’s propped up. When they are divested and it’s suckers holding the bag, they will be fine with wfh.
The dam is broken, there is no going back. It will be different by company and industry but it’s not going away.
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Regret how they went about implementing back to work.
I have never heard the expression and am now wondering if the executives faces are covered in raw egg? Is it scrambled? Sunny side up? The German doesn’t know.
dont over think it. visualize someone with a raw uncooked yoke broken over their face…they look stupid.
its an older meme from before the internet but, it still clears port authority on occasion.
Yes this “meme” predates the Internet by just a tad.
With egg on one’s face means means appearing ridiculous or foolish because of one’s actions. The phrase with egg on one’s face is an American idiom, though the origins are murky. One possible source goes back to popular theater during the 1800s and early 1900s.
In response, EY announced a fund in February 2022 to reimburse up to $800 per year for commuting, pet care and dependent care costs for each of its 55,000-plus U.S. employees.
Sorry… a < .5% raise isn’t enough to get me back in an office.
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