I basically don’t care, I work hard both from home and the office, but I find it interesting that they want us back to the office since I think it’s cheaper for them when we work from home. Are we more productive in the office or is it just that they can control us more in the office? What do you think is the reason?
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Because layoffs over Zoom and dealing with company equipment/personal items is awkward.
@4zey Exactly! If they cared about our mental health they wouldn’t be forcing us back into the office, when so many gave feedback they work better and harder at home.
… and let’s face it, this is the only reason for the big push to get all vaccinated.
JD could not give a flying sh-t about our health.
If not in campus, How can so called “leaders” control and micro manage the flock? How can they gather 360 feedback when you are home and the backstabbing is not landing as well as it does in person? That’s why they want you back, in one word - CONTROL
At Nike when the REAL reason something is happening is a reason leadership thinks will be unpalatable, Nike often gives employees the spun reason. I could sit here for hours giving you example after example of when this has happened.
Might be best to just accept that in large corporations management will often prefer to feed you semi-plausible lies rather than unpleasant truths.
I mean, what sounds better: “We want you back on campus to keep our unique culture alive” or “We want you back on campus more than 50% of your work hours because of complicated and multi-faceted financial reasons”?
There’s a reason that every year on the annual engagement survey a consistently low scoring question is something like “Leadership clearly and transparently communicates the reasons for business decisions.”
If that was the case then it would be nice if they basically said just that, instead of blowing smoke up o our as*es about company culture. Here I am about to start quoting Marx when it could be something that simple.
1) A need to justify the >$1B spent on campus buildings prior to COVID, and 2) maintain the occupancy numbers needed to keep the county & state tax breaks. Simple.