Who are these fabled majority of workers that want to return to the office?
Not the people I know several counties over who have to commute hours a day each way to work each way.
Our office is a ghost town except for managers.
I don’t understand the metaphor, poker I assume but what is a busted flush?
Edit: inb4 broken toilet.
Currently working one day a week in the office and that’s enough. Anyone that I’ve spoken to is more than happy to be working from home.
I’m not really sure how they came to this conclusion based on the surveys they cited. The vast majority of workers seem to want flexibility, which is not a dismissal of remote working. The citing of 8% wanting to work from home permanently as some kind of trump card is bizarre as it (1) doesn’t cite the percentage of workers who want to work fully in the office to provide context and (2) fails to really acknowledge the majority point on flexible working.
Having done some work in the area (and who manages employees), flexible working is as productive and beneficial as companies wish to make it. There’s various considerations around type of work performed etc. but the majority of companies I’ve worked with have seen productivity upticks where they’ve introduced flexible working policies that suit their workforce. This was true before the pandemic as well.
There are some issues with fully remote for some entry level roles, it’s far harder to train graduate employees etc. However, that’s something that needs to be fixed with innovative solutions, not a reason to can remote working.
To then say that it’s not working because the government legislation in the area is flimsy is utter nonsense. The onus is on companies to develop well thought out flexible working policies, taking feedback from their employees and stakeholders into account as well as organisational needs (and this doesn’t mean stating “well, we couldn’t possibly do it, so what’s the point?”
Incredibly bizarre article built on some pretty weak ideas.
I’m working from home. And will happily Continue to do so. And if the company tries to change that I will find another job.
Strange article. It seems to jump around all over the place without a clear conclusion, and then the headline writer decided to go off in a different direction to the article entirely.
“We do not foresee a widespread movement towards home-working or indeed remote working. “. We’re literally in the middle of a movement where workers have expressed their clear preference for hybrid working, and most employers are facilitating this. Am I misreading this line?
I don’t pay much attention to stories about remote working published in newspapers anyway. It’s like asking a fast food restaurant whether they agree with government efforts to get people to eat less fast food.
Bullshit. I think its disingenuous to say that 8% of people want to work full time from home when from their own research they can see that only 18% want to go in full time.
In fact, if we take full time from home, mostly at home and equal mix then that accounts for 65% (2/3rds) of people that want AT LEAST 2.5 days at home. I don’t think that could be considered an insignificant number.
Also this data was collected in 2021 and I’m willing to bet that the numbers wanting to WFH have increased since then.
Anecdotally the numbers in my office since they opened have been dwindling since RTO began, even the people that were keen to return a few days a week seem to have dialed it back to one day.
Reports linked below (since they didn’t link them in the article)
Can’t see the article as it’s paywalled, but by the look of it, it’s by a couple academics whose careers rely on churning out traditional MBAs, so they have a vested interest in demand for those sort of roles not dropping because a large portion of the workforce is no longer working out of an office regularly.
*”We need you to go back in to the office, you know because then we’ll have to convert them in to accommodation and we really don’t/can’t do that”*
I’d love to know what company owner/CEO paid for this article.
I’d guess 80% said they wanted to work fully remote but come in 1 day a month as a team day, I’m guessing the 8% weren’t even willing to come in that 1 day, the whole article has an agenda of bias
Written by: Every surplus-to-requirement middle manager
What a pile of shite! Remote working is becoming the norm in my organisation and will be formalised soon.
Opens article. “Opinion piece.” Closes article.
Fuck off, I’m living my best life working from home…
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Got to love the anti WFH propaganda.
Yeah I don’t know anyone who wants to come back to the office. I moved job in the middle of the pandemic and unfortunately my place is office work only but remote working on the odd occasion (deliveries etc) . CEO doesn’t agree with remote working….even though the sites I look after are in Scotland so I’m remote working from Belfast 😂😂
Hybrid working is the way forward. Its nice to go into the office I do enjoy the craic but it is also nice to be at home get the head down and not have people who want to look busy instead of being busy annoying you!
Have young kids and wife who WFHs – going to the office is bliss.
We did a survey in work you could see the questions were designed to get a hybrid result. We’re still largely doing our own thing. I go in when. I have to.
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Who are these fabled majority of workers that want to return to the office?
Not the people I know several counties over who have to commute hours a day each way to work each way.
Our office is a ghost town except for managers.
I don’t understand the metaphor, poker I assume but what is a busted flush?
Edit: inb4 broken toilet.
Currently working one day a week in the office and that’s enough. Anyone that I’ve spoken to is more than happy to be working from home.
I’m not really sure how they came to this conclusion based on the surveys they cited. The vast majority of workers seem to want flexibility, which is not a dismissal of remote working. The citing of 8% wanting to work from home permanently as some kind of trump card is bizarre as it (1) doesn’t cite the percentage of workers who want to work fully in the office to provide context and (2) fails to really acknowledge the majority point on flexible working.
Having done some work in the area (and who manages employees), flexible working is as productive and beneficial as companies wish to make it. There’s various considerations around type of work performed etc. but the majority of companies I’ve worked with have seen productivity upticks where they’ve introduced flexible working policies that suit their workforce. This was true before the pandemic as well.
There are some issues with fully remote for some entry level roles, it’s far harder to train graduate employees etc. However, that’s something that needs to be fixed with innovative solutions, not a reason to can remote working.
To then say that it’s not working because the government legislation in the area is flimsy is utter nonsense. The onus is on companies to develop well thought out flexible working policies, taking feedback from their employees and stakeholders into account as well as organisational needs (and this doesn’t mean stating “well, we couldn’t possibly do it, so what’s the point?”
Incredibly bizarre article built on some pretty weak ideas.
I’m working from home. And will happily Continue to do so. And if the company tries to change that I will find another job.
Strange article. It seems to jump around all over the place without a clear conclusion, and then the headline writer decided to go off in a different direction to the article entirely.
“We do not foresee a widespread movement towards home-working or indeed remote working. “. We’re literally in the middle of a movement where workers have expressed their clear preference for hybrid working, and most employers are facilitating this. Am I misreading this line?
I don’t pay much attention to stories about remote working published in newspapers anyway. It’s like asking a fast food restaurant whether they agree with government efforts to get people to eat less fast food.
Bullshit. I think its disingenuous to say that 8% of people want to work full time from home when from their own research they can see that only 18% want to go in full time.
In fact, if we take full time from home, mostly at home and equal mix then that accounts for 65% (2/3rds) of people that want AT LEAST 2.5 days at home. I don’t think that could be considered an insignificant number.
Also this data was collected in 2021 and I’m willing to bet that the numbers wanting to WFH have increased since then.
Anecdotally the numbers in my office since they opened have been dwindling since RTO began, even the people that were keen to return a few days a week seem to have dialed it back to one day.
Reports linked below (since they didn’t link them in the article)
[https://www.smurfitschool.ie/facultyresearch/jobqualitystudy/outputsfromthestudy/](https://www.smurfitschool.ie/facultyresearch/jobqualitystudy/outputsfromthestudy/)
Can’t see the article as it’s paywalled, but by the look of it, it’s by a couple academics whose careers rely on churning out traditional MBAs, so they have a vested interest in demand for those sort of roles not dropping because a large portion of the workforce is no longer working out of an office regularly.
*”We need you to go back in to the office, you know because then we’ll have to convert them in to accommodation and we really don’t/can’t do that”*
I’d love to know what company owner/CEO paid for this article.
I’d guess 80% said they wanted to work fully remote but come in 1 day a month as a team day, I’m guessing the 8% weren’t even willing to come in that 1 day, the whole article has an agenda of bias
Written by: Every surplus-to-requirement middle manager
What a pile of shite! Remote working is becoming the norm in my organisation and will be formalised soon.
Opens article. “Opinion piece.” Closes article.
Fuck off, I’m living my best life working from home…
[deleted]
Got to love the anti WFH propaganda.
Yeah I don’t know anyone who wants to come back to the office. I moved job in the middle of the pandemic and unfortunately my place is office work only but remote working on the odd occasion (deliveries etc) . CEO doesn’t agree with remote working….even though the sites I look after are in Scotland so I’m remote working from Belfast 😂😂
Hybrid working is the way forward. Its nice to go into the office I do enjoy the craic but it is also nice to be at home get the head down and not have people who want to look busy instead of being busy annoying you!
Have young kids and wife who WFHs – going to the office is bliss.
We did a survey in work you could see the questions were designed to get a hybrid result. We’re still largely doing our own thing. I go in when. I have to.