Can someone explain why companies are forcing people to come back to the office? I have a job where I need to be there all day. There are a lot of jobs for people don't need to be there. And there are a lot of jobs were people are more efficient from home. And there are a lot of jobs where if your company is more efficient working from home and you did not need to own or rent a gigantic building, seems like everything would lead you towards work from home. So I wanted the reason they are trying to get people to go back to the office?
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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Some of the answers you already received are partially correct, but I work in Commercial Real Estate and I’d wager it’s because when a large tenant stops operating at a location, it causes a trigger on the loan that has repercussions due the property owner. Often, they lose access to manage their own rents.
This happens even if the tenant is still paying rent. It’s because a vacant tenant, especially a large one, loses business for the surrounding business.
Example: A grocery store in a strip mall closes down for repairs. Even if they are still occupying the space, it would cause a trigger. Lots of the other spaces in the strip mall are more valuable with traffic from the grocery store shoppers.
TLDR, they don’t want a loan violation that will cost them.
- They're stuck in long leases for commercial real estate, and feel the need to justify the money being spent
- They're stuck with shit for brains middle managers who don't contribute anything but acting like glorified, unnecessary babysitters, and the company feels the need to justify keeping these people around
Commercial property owners are lobbying Congress to force RTO because their properties will lose value if people work from home.
Shortsighted local governments like RTO because it forces people to be stuck in a part of town where they are more likely to patronize local buisnesses.
What they all look past is the growing resentment not just for RTO, but this entire system where we sacrifice our time and dignity for the cred of our politicians and the moneynof our slave masters.
my organization rto'd very early on after the pandemic, and promptly lost 40% of their staff who retired. It's an old place, demographically. I can guarantee that everyone forced back in was refusing (and continues to refuse) to buy anything for lunch and brown-bags out of spite, especially given some dummies were stupid enough to claim that as the reason. Lots of eateries continuing to shut down in the area, and you know what? nobody cares. In attempting to "save" something, they've practically guaranteed its demise by pissing off an entire generation.
In my sector it's just incompetence. Bosses are under the illusion that being able to see the workers in and out makes them better at managing their hours (false) and that being able to physically reach someone makes the communication more efficient (also false)
They want you to quit
Control. They want to feel like they're in control of all aspects of their team/company. I work from home, but they've put on tons of monitoring software to check if we're looking at different pages, moving our mouse, and interacting with our keyboards. It's all just about control. When people are in the office, they feel like they have control over what they're doing. They're being observed by other coworkers, etc.
If you can't tell people are working productively remotely, you have no business being a manager.
I actually do more work at home. Zero distractions. Just work.
Forcing people to go into the office is the boss pretending to work.
I don't even have to pretend I'm not working when I'm in the office. I'm constantly being interrupted by people to the point where I only get maybe 2 hours of good working conditions total throughout the day. I may spend a good amount of my time at home blatantly not working, but even then I'm still getting more work done in a day than trying and failing to work for 8 hours in the office.
Yo same. I work more efficiently at home so I can fuck around between tasks.
15% increase in productivity going from 2 days in the office to fully remote. That was the number given to us by the same management team that brought everyone back 3 days a week.
They made up the number one way when it suited them, then made it up again the other way once it didn't.
Oh don't worry, no made up numbers, they can easily keep track of that stuff at that job, they can even have quotas in place and a point system
I mean... I'm writing this while at the office "working" so I that seems very valid to me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I ruined my work day by dying early in Noita and spend the rest of the day too salty to do anything but watch youtube. I get out in a few minutes...
amateur: scrolling lemmy at work
pro: balatro at work
master: beat saber at work
Grandmaster: sleeping at work
Super grand Master: beat saber, but not the video game
I don't want to work
I know right? Who do these people think they are, shareholders?
The last thing I want is to take my work home.
Especially if you work for Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services.
"When you're in the muck, call our truck!"
The last thing I want is to take myself to the office, to each their own
Depends on the circumstances. After one year of wfh in a 18m2 apartment, I happily go to the office 4-5 days a week, even though I am not required to.
Again, to each their own