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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by nemomarx on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:15AM (#45195580)
Why would they not use those metrics internally as part of the RTO policy then? Surely they would be picking particular stats out to highlight the benefits of RTO, talk about how well everyone is doing afterwards, etc.
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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by aurareturn on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:23AM (#45195645)
Because they don't want the public/employees to misconstrue those metrics? Maybe they don't want employees to know how they view productivity?

Surely if they're presented with solid evidence that WFH increases productivity, they'd keep it. Execs make millions in bonuses if the performance of the company hits certain goals. It's baffling that people here still talk about real estate conspiracy theories.

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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by cmiles74 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @07:49AM (#45196324)
If there were clear metrics showing that in-person teams “out perform” remote teams, we would be hearing about it constantly. The supposed rationale for keeping such data secret sounds far-fetched to me.
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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by aurareturn on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:34AM (#45196718)
The rationale is that there is no upside and pure downside for releasing these metrics to the public. It opens them up to scrutiny.

The evidence is that there have been more RTO calls than companies switching to pure WFH post-Covid.

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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by cutemonster on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:44AM (#45198514)
If more people eat hamburgers than vegetables, you'll start saying that that's evidence that hamburgers are more healthy?
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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by aurareturn on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:12AM (#45198954)
It'd be evidence that people enjoy eating hamburgers more than vegetables.
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Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office by nextaccountic on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:40PM (#45200268)
Yeah, but managers enjoying RTO doesn't mean that it's good for the company
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