| >That was the setup until 2020 and it worked. Especially for the leadership who have grown up in that requirement. And people were very happy with carriages until cars came along. Things change, the world changed, WFH became the new reality. Being stuck in the past way of doings just because it was done in the past is idiotic. Leadership is especially bad about adapting to change because it means actually having to learn and try new things, which 100% explains their resistance to WFH. Much easier to glance at badge swipe-in times and go chew out some peon than to figure out how to actually do the work of management. >Onus is on the pro-remote side to provide data that that works. Sure, and that's already been shown. In 2020 there were dire predictions of productivity drops when WFH was implemented on a large-scale. Turns out, that didn't happen. All attempts to determine the effects of WFH show no-to-positive effects on productivity. Ergo, it works. So, again >Why should RTO need data? Because, as noted above, there hasn't been any measurable drop in productivity due to WFH. This is why in my first comment I said that the justifications used by management have become increasingly abstract, because there is nothing concrete they can point to as support for their decisions. Sorry you work in such a harsh environment, consider changing jobs. |
Nope, we had a different experience. For the first few months, we all coasted on our prior relationships. Also, it was a pretty unique moment in the history and there was a "let's rise to the challenge" feeling.
Later on as employees churned and new ones joined, as well as the remote fatigue set in, we saw a drastic drop in productivity.
> Because, as noted above, there hasn't been any measurable drop in productivity due to WFH.
There has been, in our company. Management is wondering why we have less output when our workforce has more than doubled in the remote setting. To their credit, they literally went all in on remote. But one key thing they didn't realize is that remote needs rewiring of the entire communication culture. Much easier said than done.