Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they’re so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-1-3-bosses-090000751.html

Posted by questison

16 comments

  1. I went to the office twice last year, it was a ghost town in a building that less than a year old with all the modern bells and whistles. I don’t give AF… I’m not going back in

  2. It’s weird. I know so many companies here in NY who simply broke their leases during the pandemic. Empty desks isn’t the reason, because the costs of RTO still outweigh the gains of using the office space.

    Even if you honor the lease, that money is being spent anyway.

  3. If it was really about money, they would dump all that unnecessary office space.

    This is about power and control.

  4. Does it actually cost a company for their workforce to work from home? I get that they still lease the building, and that they’re essentially paying for empty space, but should the employees really shoulder that burden? Can’t the business restructure their business model? Shopping malls have died, so businesses shifted to online sales, and they lease their buildings. There are several empty pharmacy buildings in my town that have been empty for years. Buildings go empty. The onus shouldn’t be on the employees.

  5. 1 in 3 bosses ADMITTED. The true number is higher.

    My boss has openly said she doesn’t like to work at home, so she isn’t letting the rest of the office work from home.

    Even though she almost exclusively works at home.

  6. A lot of Bosses are realizing that their job is not necessary if they have no one to physically Boss around. They are scared to get fired.

  7. IMHO the way this is all going to fall out is simple. You want me to work in the office when I can do my job as well or better from home? Raise my pay.

  8. I just retired, but if I had a nickel for every Zoom or Teams mtg I was on at with while these mothers and youngsters were on these with babies crying and dogs barking and my personal favorite is when I would be shopping on my weekday off …..

    Not weekend , and they’re this person who’s supposed to be working is shopping. B.S on that…we had to figure out our work life balance our entire raising of our kids!

  9. I worked with a big IT firm. My boss had decreased the office space by 50%. If you want to work at the office, you have to reserve a desk.

    Over a 7 year period, I was in the office twice. Both times to pick up a new computer.

  10. Not one of them can think outside the box? They should fire themselves.

  12. They ignore all the wasted time for employees and fuel to commute. I don’t think those bosses are particularly good at their jobs.

  13. That’s just BS, I’m sorry. What CEO does not like to save money on rent? This has nothing to do with the empty desks and everything to do with the fact that the people in the empty desks are not there to tell them how awesome and beautiful and smart they are.

  14. My company closed all local offices. They now rent spaces for anyone that wants to work from an office. With remote work being so desirable , and less and less available , companies willing to do it will attract the best people and have even better choices of candidates compared with those who are too stuck in their dinosaur ways.

  15. Duh, how you gonna sell a building of everyone works from home?

  16. As others have noted, a lot is riding on people going in to work. Companies are paying rent for buildings. If people don’t come in, what’re they paying rent for? Then there’s the tolls people pay to get to work, the paying for parking, and potentially the out of state taxes, if you, say, live in New Jersey and work in New York.

    There have always been work from home jobs, as long as there’s been the computer and the Internet. I worked from home a couple of days a week in the early 2000s. But once people *had to* work from home, they realized they *could* work from home, and the paradigm shifted.

    And all of those considerations are in addition to the productivity issue:

    [https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/remote-workers-less-productive-wfh-research/](https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/remote-workers-less-productive-wfh-research/)

    It’s kind of hard to blame employers, all things considered.

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