Based on the BLS report from Oct 2024 titled “The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity”. Keep bringing this up in town halls and meetings.
Large raises were not given during WFH with additional productivity, they should be given now with RTO and added costs for employees.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productivity.htm
It is a real bot storm in here. The C-suite is sweating. Keep up the pressure, folks. Cancel your wireless and move it to Verizon.
Why is everyone still trying to support or not support RTO on this forum? It makes no difference what YOU believe, fair or unfair, productive or unproductive. Any employer, including T, has the right to set work place hours and location, with no consideration required for the personal circumstances or beliefs of employees. At T, work place policies, including RTO, is simply not up for discussion. If you can't accept the fact of 'employer rights', maybe you should consider finding another employer, your employment is "At Will", so you can leave anytime, just as any company has the right to let you go due to business needs or not following policy.
100% of the people I know that wfh work at AT&T.
WFH increases my Costco run, kids soccer practice, fixing the house., sleeping ointment, Netflix binge.
Just stop the crying already.
For the past six years I was a telecommuter. It just about broke me financially. Every workday I would watch HSN & QVC, I was always buying clothes, shoes, jewelery, and cosmetics. Now that I'm back at work everyday, I'm actually saving money. Yes, I dress to the 9's everyday too!
It really does. I got laundry done, binged seasons of new shows and even went grocery shopping. Now I have to do all this on my own personal time. This su-ks!
Very few of the top 200 firms ar 5x RTO. Most are still working a hybrid schedule, and providing each of their employees a desk at which they can sit.
"A few randomized experiments at individual firms identify small positive effects of hybrid and fully remote work on individual employee productivity using metrics such as the number of emails written, phone/video calls made, and the novelty of work products as reported in manager-assigned performance ratings."
Metrics used is easily manipulated data...remember all the daily, meaningless conference calls and zoom meetings, heard it bitched up here many times!
So go wfh for one of the "individual firms" in this study, not for one of top 200 corporations in America'! I'm thinking you would then be back here belly aching about the wages, Healthcare. 24x7 availability and on,on,on,on and on.
There are holes all over your evidence article that does not pertain to big business in America! They are firms with 250 or less headcount and of course you would be better off wfh in that situation...have you seen the cost of corporate real estate these days? Insurance? Technology? Power?
Big business have done the numbers and RTO is here to stay, atleast the next 4 years.