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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by paulcole on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:01PM (#37095104)
> And I told them I actually knew of a way to get 100% of their employees to return to the office happily

I guarantee this isn’t true. The remote work lifers would find a reason to think that private on-site offices was bad, too.

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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by doitLP on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:00PM (#37095494)
They’re not bad. I would welcome the idea. However they cannot compare to every other benefit of WFH including private bathroom, 0 commute, ability to cook and eat my own food, more rested, time for exercise, more personal time for kids and sopouse, etc etc etc
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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by MBCook on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:34PM (#37096068)
It’s something. It would fix a large complaint with most offices, and it shows that you’re really trying. You know what else would be trying? Offering other other incentives. Like increased pay to compensate for the commute time and cost.

Bringing in cupcakes once a month it’s not trying. Simply threatening layoffs is not trying. Saying the word culture 30 times is not trying.

The pandemic proved work from home works for a large number of people and many of them found at a serious quality of life improvement. trying to take that away and asking people to pretend it didn’t exist in exchange for some stupid token like adding a couple extra plants to the office so it feels more “homey“ shows employees that you don’t care about them AT ALL. Just like it did when you tried to force them back into the office during the initial height of a deadly pandemic.

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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by johnnyanmac on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:25AM (#37098182)
It's a curve. Your goal isn't to convince people who are deadset on never stepping foot in an office again. The cost to try and change that mind is so extreme that you're only reserving that value to executive or fellows anyway. Who already have that flexibility.

But if they really do care about RTO and they want to incentivize people with a modest commute to come back... make the office better.

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