It’s always been obvious that businesses will want to force people back to the office. How successful they’ll be I don’t know, but they’re going to keep trying.
*2/3 CEOs want to force people back into the office using pay and career related punishments for those who won’t comply with their arbitrary demand to be in a certain location*
Of course they think people will return to the office if you start linking salary and promotion opportunities to it. Although looking forward to the swathe of discrimination cases that get flung their way if they do go down that route.
Ultimately this is being pushed by those who cannot manage people remotely and who have interests in commercial property.
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I’ve friends in recruitment and one of the first things, often even before salary, prospective candidates ask about now is if there’s flexible working options.
I do think there’s perhaps a small reset coming in terms of needing more face to face stuff in certain industries – particularly with new hires – but there’s no way back to five day office weeks for many companies unless they’re willing to see a brain drain away to businesses that are willing to be more amenable.
I literally left my old job over this. Got a nice pay rise too.
Sensible companies willing to offer home working will have zero problem recruiting skilled staff going forward, and the dinosaurs are going to struggle.
Weird that only two thirds of CEOs are delusional given my past experiences with them
Two 3rds of CEOs are too busy posting virtue signalling nonsense on LinkedIn to think about the question before they answered!
In another survey we find that exactly two thirds of CEO’s are delusional and are prescribed Smarties to alleviate their condition.
In my job some tasks are more suited to being in the office and working face to face. On-boarding and training new staff, collaborating on some tasks, etc.
Equally, some stuff is better being done from home, like the bits of my job that require lots of reading and writing where I just need a day or two of largely uninterrupted quiet time to concentrate without people bothering me as often.
I can’t imagine I’ll ever be back in 5 days a week. I’ll go in when it’s appropriate and work from home when it’s appropriate.
Having office staff and IT people on-site is immensely helpful when there’s critical situation issues.
Can’t just ‘wave away’ something they’re there seeing it happen themselves (unless he/she is being delusional, of course).
A return to hot desking
To arguing over whose round it is for tea
To someone stealing lunches
To someone else microwaving fish
So looking forward to it
Two-thirds of CEOs can go fuck themselves. Lazy good for nothing bastards have been swanning around flexibly for years.
Maybe we will go back if the ceo does it first for 6 months as a show of leadership.
They must take public transport and be in the office every day at 9am and leave the office at 6pm.
Then we can return to negotiations and its not guaranteed that we will go back.
It’s just…not going to happen.
People have been working from home / hybrid for over 3 years now, they know the benefits and they have proven to be productive. It’s deeply engrained in the culture now, which is why everytime a company tries to bring staff back there is a war of attrition.
When my company announced that they are increasing in office days from 2 to 3, 10% of the people quit and the rest mostly ignored it. It just will not work.
Working from home was the best thing that ever happened to me.
For years I was getting up at 6am and getting back home at 6:30pm and spending a fortune on trains that were always late or packed full of people and then the pandemic hit and I managed to find a job that allowed me to log on at 8:59am and close the laptop down at 5pm on the dot.
No more shirts and trousers and uncomfortable shoes. No more awkward small talk with colleagues. No more having to walk to the train station in the pitch black freezing cold at 7am.
Fuck ever going back to that.
Two thirds of CEO’s can suck the collective testicles of their workers unions.
And the other third of CEOs are going to have their pick of the best workers by offering remote and hybrid jobs.
Wonder how that’s going to work out long term…
Why would staff presume that they would be allowed to work permanently?
2/3 of CEOs are delusional crybabies desperate to feel powerful.
As someone in the service industry said to me. Please fight for WFH 100 cover lunch is so much easier that 200+ and they don’t get paid any more for the extra stress.
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It’s always been obvious that businesses will want to force people back to the office. How successful they’ll be I don’t know, but they’re going to keep trying.
*2/3 CEOs want to force people back into the office using pay and career related punishments for those who won’t comply with their arbitrary demand to be in a certain location*
Of course they think people will return to the office if you start linking salary and promotion opportunities to it. Although looking forward to the swathe of discrimination cases that get flung their way if they do go down that route.
Ultimately this is being pushed by those who cannot manage people remotely and who have interests in commercial property.
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I’ve friends in recruitment and one of the first things, often even before salary, prospective candidates ask about now is if there’s flexible working options.
I do think there’s perhaps a small reset coming in terms of needing more face to face stuff in certain industries – particularly with new hires – but there’s no way back to five day office weeks for many companies unless they’re willing to see a brain drain away to businesses that are willing to be more amenable.
I literally left my old job over this. Got a nice pay rise too.
Sensible companies willing to offer home working will have zero problem recruiting skilled staff going forward, and the dinosaurs are going to struggle.
Weird that only two thirds of CEOs are delusional given my past experiences with them
Two 3rds of CEOs are too busy posting virtue signalling nonsense on LinkedIn to think about the question before they answered!
In another survey we find that exactly two thirds of CEO’s are delusional and are prescribed Smarties to alleviate their condition.
In my job some tasks are more suited to being in the office and working face to face. On-boarding and training new staff, collaborating on some tasks, etc.
Equally, some stuff is better being done from home, like the bits of my job that require lots of reading and writing where I just need a day or two of largely uninterrupted quiet time to concentrate without people bothering me as often.
I can’t imagine I’ll ever be back in 5 days a week. I’ll go in when it’s appropriate and work from home when it’s appropriate.
Having office staff and IT people on-site is immensely helpful when there’s critical situation issues.
Can’t just ‘wave away’ something they’re there seeing it happen themselves (unless he/she is being delusional, of course).
A return to hot desking
To arguing over whose round it is for tea
To someone stealing lunches
To someone else microwaving fish
So looking forward to it
Two-thirds of CEOs can go fuck themselves. Lazy good for nothing bastards have been swanning around flexibly for years.
Maybe we will go back if the ceo does it first for 6 months as a show of leadership.
They must take public transport and be in the office every day at 9am and leave the office at 6pm.
Then we can return to negotiations and its not guaranteed that we will go back.
It’s just…not going to happen.
People have been working from home / hybrid for over 3 years now, they know the benefits and they have proven to be productive. It’s deeply engrained in the culture now, which is why everytime a company tries to bring staff back there is a war of attrition.
When my company announced that they are increasing in office days from 2 to 3, 10% of the people quit and the rest mostly ignored it. It just will not work.
Working from home was the best thing that ever happened to me.
For years I was getting up at 6am and getting back home at 6:30pm and spending a fortune on trains that were always late or packed full of people and then the pandemic hit and I managed to find a job that allowed me to log on at 8:59am and close the laptop down at 5pm on the dot.
No more shirts and trousers and uncomfortable shoes. No more awkward small talk with colleagues. No more having to walk to the train station in the pitch black freezing cold at 7am.
Fuck ever going back to that.
Two thirds of CEO’s can suck the collective testicles of their workers unions.
And the other third of CEOs are going to have their pick of the best workers by offering remote and hybrid jobs.
Wonder how that’s going to work out long term…
Why would staff presume that they would be allowed to work permanently?
2/3 of CEOs are delusional crybabies desperate to feel powerful.
As someone in the service industry said to me. Please fight for WFH 100 cover lunch is so much easier that 200+ and they don’t get paid any more for the extra stress.