Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊
Of employers who forced staff back to the office, 42% said "attrition" was higher than normal, 21% said the move had actually lost them some of their "key" staff. 29% were now "struggling" to recruit altogether. Ha ha ha. https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/wfh_rto_survey/
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Survey says most would prefer a gentle request

The Register
Jun 29, 2023 at 9:53amWeb
Show threadRobert Pluim 🇪🇺Jun 29, 2023

@brucelawson

And I'll bet that, once again, all the MBAs are *stunned* by those numbers

Show threaddoncishJun 29, 2023

@rpluim @brucelawson

In my social circle only older employees (men > 60) rejoyce at going back to 100% on-site. The rest demands between 4-5 home office days per week and is prepared to leave the company if their employers should be stupid enough to force them back onsite full time. Meanwhile nobody I know willingly applies for jobs that demand 100% on-site because they are as old-fashioned as VHS tape in the IT sector. #Employers need to grow up and let go of the past.

Show threadCalavera 🏴Jun 30, 2023
@doncish @rpluim @brucelawson After being laid off, I ignored any jobs that required 3 or more days "hybrid". Let the "market" teach them.
Show threadDavid GerardJul 2, 2023
@doncish @rpluim @brucelawson 56yo sysadmin, i've been to the office once this year and that's about right
Show threadmathewJul 2, 2023
@davidgerard @doncish @rpluim @brucelawson In 15 years working from home at the last job, I went to the office once, to get my security badge replaced when it expired. Just in case I needed to go to the office a second time. (I never did.)
Show threadAnders Karlsson 🇸🇪Jul 2, 2023
@doncish @rpluim @brucelawson for the record I am 61 and enjoy working from home 5 days a week. I would never accept another dev gig if I the requirement was to be on-site.
Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Jul 2, 2023
@olddev I'm not quite as venerable but same: I've been working from home for 15 years and have no intention of changing that now. @doncish @rpluim
Show threadAxel EbleJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson Who woulda thunk?!
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 29, 2023

@brucelawson

"Back to the office" policy is a form of a "dumb-sizing" mass layoff.

Staff with the most in-demand skills will leave first.

Show threadSchroedingers_CatJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson Can't say I am surprised, as someone who is moving on because (in part) they want me back in the office.
Show threadDavid Cantrell 🏏Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson literally NO-ONE could have predicted this!
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jun 29, 2023
[email protected] when many like the idea of living and the outcomes are still good in getting Covid because of the carelessness of others...cannot blame many... I had one such visitor who would go everywhere and then come to get help from me and did not take into account of the damages that could result in my 3rd possible visit with death on their account of carelessness and walk around being a carrier of covid and all around them getting ill...AGED PERSONS HAVE A LOWER RECOVERY RATE .
Show threadRDS (shawphd on Twitter)Jun 29, 2023
@Lstn2urmama Plus I bet a fair number of people struggling with the after effects of infection don’t want to waste energy on things like commutes.
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jun 29, 2023
@shawrd773 ..can relate! Am retired and COVID is such a delimma of too many unknown factors...
There are some of us who got sick with no test that was positive and yet the meds worked, and got vaxxed and will be vaxxed again, because of having gotten ecoli and then that brought on other issues do in affect including a test positive finally but not as drastic as almost dieing from test in hospital result as well as the major delay in surgery that almost cost me my life and recovery nightmare
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jun 29, 2023
@shawrd773 ...addon...when an elder and then illness is for a very extended time you tend to lose mobility when only was able to do bed and bathroom for over 2 years...recovery is nightmarish as the body has lost all function in many muscles for being able to rebuild...the pains are not easy to deal with and having no one to help Costs ability even more when added FATIGUE to the issue...one NEEDS vehicles,money, and personal help which does NOT exist anymore ..governments have dropped help.
Show threadDavid Landon Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson My workplace actually had to reverse the "return to the office" policy because too many good people left.
Show threadSeiðrJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson [Sound of gentle tea slurping]
Show threadSuperIluJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson and will they learn from it? No! 😡
Show threadNjordJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson In That is some of the best news I have seen in years!
Show threadJosh WayneJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson I can't imagine going back to the office after 8 years working remote. I'm basically feral at this point.
Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Jun 29, 2023
@joshwayne I agree. It's been 15 years for me!
Show threadAlan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏Jun 30, 2023
@brucelawson @joshwayne I've been working mostly remote for 38 years. Back in '81 I was a radical weirdo for doing so. Sad that it took a pandemic for it to become fully mainstream.
Show threadDaveJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson
Show threadRobrabJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson read the opening chapter of Peopleware by Lister and DeMarco. The people who leave are likely the best as they're more likely to get a new job. The ones most likely to comply are the ones least likely to be able to get a new job. Not a new book. Should be compulsory reading for IT management.
Show threadTodd EdwardsonJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson my tiny violin plays a sad song.
Show threadKarl Heinz Marbaise (he/him)Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson I have to say that I don't expected something else because many people working from home realized how convenient it is working from home. And it shows more worse thing that many "bosses"/"superior" having a control problem... means you don't see them ... they don't work idom...
Show threadbondoloJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson Hardly a surprise that the most capable workers have the most options.
Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)Jun 29, 2023

@brucelawson Cue the placing of blame...
- Min wage is too high!
- Too many entitlements!
- Social security is too generous!
- People are too lazy!
- No one wants to work anymore!
- Woke ideology is making people hate work!
- Etc etc.

🤦‍♀️😡🙄

Show threadouinneJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson you love to see it
Show threadWreckingball4goodJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson who would have thunk that making people do something they don’t want to do that doesn’t benefit them would have consequences??? (: i personally have left or turned down several roles based on this same scenario.
Show threadJohn Madden Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson Where are those that left working now though? Nowhere?! Unfortunately my work HAS to be done “at the office”.
Show threadRitaJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson
Show threadDaniel Dreher 🌪️Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson If I ever hear "return to office" I'll be gone asap. That's the fun part about a worker's job market.
Show threadLydia SchochJun 29, 2023

@brucelawson @drewcosten

This is an image from an article from The Register called “Employers Losing ‘Key’ Workers Because of Forced Return to Office.”

The image itself is a photo of the foot of someone who is wearing a black dress shoe. Their foot is posed on a blue carpet next to the feet of a rolling office chair.

#Alt4You #AltText

Show threadpenryuJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson @Roach Important to note that this isn't just "existing employees were allowed to work remotely and quit when recalled"; many companies hired remote workers during COVID and the remote workers never intended or agreed to come into the office.
Show threaderica_sea55Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson of course. I will fight fight fight any demands that I return to the office (I don’t mind a couple of days a week). There are SO many dodgy news reports and so-called “research” on the “lack of productivity” from WFH. Yeah right, some silly surveys done during enforced lockdowns. Such obvious agendas motivated by neoliberal managerialism (and older white guys)
Show threaderica_sea55Jun 29, 2023
@brucelawson sometimes I think the major benefit of my very expensive and time consuming late diagnosis (I’m 61) of ASD and ADHD was to give me more ammunition against any employer who wants me to return to the office. Fuck them. Yesterday working from home, I not only completed 2 tasks that would have taken me all week in the office, I prepared a site for a shed slab, weeded my vegetable garden and made a box frame for my resin art.
Show threadGoober KingJun 29, 2023
@brucelawson Which is exactly what they want
Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Jun 30, 2023
@gooberking they want to lose key workers and be unable to recruit?
Show threadGoober KingJun 30, 2023
@brucelawson It's all about reducing costs. Given that higher performers tend to also be paid more, they're probably fine with recruiting folks that are more willing to work for lower pay.
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 30, 2023
@brucelawson I am so surprised
Show threadTanguy ⧓ HerrmannJun 30, 2023
Show threadJen MJun 30, 2023
@brucelawson They're more interested in butts-in-chairs time than actual productivity, which by my recollection actually went *up* with WFH.
Show threadmsgbi Markus SagebielJul 1, 2023
@brucelawson @charles_ex
Show threadisaacsJul 2, 2023
@brucelawson every mediocre c-level executive these days:
Show threadŁukasz Jul 2, 2023
@brucelawson that was the point though, wasn't it?
Show threadQueen of AnxietyJul 3, 2023
@brucelawson I’ve read of some businesses doing it as a way to not seem evil by doing layoffs, and I am so HERE for it biting them firmly on the tush!
Show threadNafiul IslamJul 3, 2023
@brucelawson @maritvandijk Serves them right.