My work started demanding the same. I can't do more than 2 days, because my wife works 3 days and we've got to do something with the kids. Two days is what I've been doing since I started working there 3 years ago. Luckily they won't be enforcing it for now. I'm bound to them until summer at least. That's when I plan on finishing my bachelor that they paid for. I love my job, but this (and the bad pay) is forcing me to start looking for something else ASAP.
Or start a union
Hope they don't like talent. The brain drain continues.
AT&T owns a lot of corporate real estate. Its fucking with their books so they have to punish everyone so execs look smart.
The slow march of the return to office has taken another step forward
No. 🤬 you ‘Fortune’. You’re just spoon feeding the rich what you think they want to hear.
Amazon and ATT are big but they don’t represent the whole and does not imply return to office is inevitable.
“The majority of our employees and leaders never stopped working on location for the full work week—including during the pandemic,” a spokesperson told Fortune.
And you...you're proud of this?!
The majority of my "leaders" have been full remote since pandemic. Of course, they stopped approving full remote immediately after they got theirs.
I’m happy my greedy company closed our office a year ago to save money on the lease. I don’t respect the people in charge but full time WFH is an excellent perk.
WhY cAnT wE rETAiN oUr TaLeNt!?!- greedy CEOs in the future
Yeah. Just read an article explaining that you lose the best talent by forcing RTO and turnover jumps 14%.
Future? It's happening now
"Nobody wants to work anymore."
The real talent already built the good stuff. Now, all they need is someone to follow SOP's to maintain and carry on. Improvements and new stuff will take the hit, and they will grow stagnant until someone else starts doing something better, and then they scramble and complain as they start losing money and that's when they start looking for talent again. Except this time, they will just be hired to put in place whatever the other company did and probably be let go after.
AT&T hasn't updated toll free routing control in almost 11 years. Their bvoip portal is similarly antiquated. What good stuff have they been developing?
Warner Brothers!
. . . wait
Retain who? Anyone not in a brick and mortar, or in HQ, is over seas.
Performative cruelty, corporate style. Know your place, peasants.
Can anyone explain to me why companies are pushing RTO? Simply to justify some management positions? Or justify the big buildings they built? To me work from home would have so many advantages for a company and could actually be problematic for some employees. Not only can they save some costs on office space but it opens up their talent pool in a way that could lower wages. They could find someone living in low cost of living middle of nowhere that would do a job for 60k that someone in an expensive city couldn't justify doing for less than 120k.
traditional middle management simply doesnt need to exist of you're not baby sitting in person. everything else they can do could be AI handled or outsourced. except maybe training up and assessing for promotions. get used to training yourselves and self promotions by job hopping.
Its not all. I have found that companies that did not own much real estate have embraced wfh big time and have wound down any contracts they had. Ones stuck with offices they own or maybe long term contracts seem to but I doubt its going to be a good long term call. The only possible usage it might have is to encourage people to quit so you can reduce the workforce without lay offs but that is a crazy strategy as you are losing at best random folks and at worst the best you have.
I overlooked reducing workforce as a possibility. I'm not in the corporate world at all so I have no actual insight on anything. I've just been confused by something I'd consider a win-win being done away with by a lot of companies.
yeah everyone is confused with that. Many back to office scenarios have the people sitting in the office video conferencing all day because many of the folks they work with are not at the local office anyway.
Gotta watch those wage slaves
Doing the bidding of the commercial real estate industry, which is one layer below the banks in the layer cake
That makes no sense. Commercial landlords collect rent regardless of how often employees are on site.
The real reason for RTW policies is that companies want to downsize without firing workers (and thus without paying unemployment). Hence:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told staff they will need to be back in the office full-time, seemingly pushing 73% of his colleagues to consider quitting over the move
Stankey said 85% of them already lived near one of the offices. The remaining 15%, he said, will have to “make decisions that are appropriate to their lives.”
Two of my previous employers went out of business or are on their final thread and moved out to some small office somewhere. Those buildings have each been vacant for about 2 years now. Can’t collect rent if no tenants
Right, but if you have a tenant then you don't care what their WFH policy is.
Companies that are hybrid and go remote don't renew their commercial real estate contracts.
If they are not planning to renew their leases, then they aren't doing the bidding of their landlords as OP suggested.
In other words, if a company (for some reason) wants to please commercial real estate owners, it doesn't have to end WFH.
And if it doesn't care about pleasing commercial real estate owners, then it must have some other reason for ending WFH.
Property holdings will always be more important to corporate America than the people that they employ.
In my company we just went from 2 office days to 1 per week, and the wheel is still turning just fine.
Not like China just totally owned you, right? Yeah, let go of your top talent. Good idea.
Even the customer service representatives in Egypt ?
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