CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by ryanSrich on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:58PM (#39193352)

Sounds like a PR-friendly way to do layoffs. Force people back into the office knowing 30%+ are going to quit.

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by potatolicious on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:46PM (#39193969)

Yeah, sometimes these are soft-layoffs, but even under that logic it's a bad idea: your best employees are the ones who have the most options outside of your company.

If you do a traditional layoff you get to decide who stays and who goes and have at least the chance to try and retain your top players.

If you do a soft-layoff someone else does the choosing, and the more employable the employee is on the outside the more likely they are to leave.

Just ass-backwards decision-making no matter how one slices it.

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by ryanSrich on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:02PM (#39194175)

> your best employees are the ones who have the most options outside of your company

Aren't these employees the most likely to get exceptions though?

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by sokoloff on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:39AM (#39202211)

The best 3%? Probably. The best 30%? Probably not.

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