CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by LiquidSky on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:04PM (#39192575)

Except no one can actually measure or confirm these apparent hordes of lazy slackers that are totally out there. Just legions of secret non-working people.

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by ahtihn on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:39PM (#39193083)

How do you know that no one can measure ?

Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive.

Individual productivity of office workers is nearly impossible to properly measure but aggregate productivity is easier though certainly far from perfect.

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by MattGaiser on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:40PM (#39193104)

> Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive.

They say they don't have it, but tell people to do it anyway.

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by LiquidSky on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:05PM (#39193448)

>How do you know that no one can measure ?

Because they haven't. Again, every study on this issue hasn't shown a drop in productivity.

>Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive.

And yet curiously neither the companies themselves nor any outside actor has been able to produce any of those measurements supporting such conclusion after years of trying.

I guess every company, government agency, and private entity in the world are all colluding to hide the evidence of lower WFH productivity despite desperately, desperately wanting to show that that's the case to support their RTO demands. Who can stop this nefarious conspiracy?

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