We’re now in the find out stage of mandatory return to office.
Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.
@carnage4life those numbers seem a lot like "normal distributions" to me.
Reverse the statements.
58% of companies experienced expected or lower than expected attrition after implementing RTO strategies.
That sounds great. More than half of companies got what they wanted.
71% of companies enforcing RTO are not struggling with recruitment.
Again, that sounds like expected value.
Obviously, "attrition" is really hard on the actual humans. But this (sadly) is encouraging for companies.
@gatesvp @carnage4life Why should this be a normal distribution? Pre-covid, almost 100% of workers did no remote work. It was assumed that in person work was necessary to do the job, and workers in general hadn't even considered whether they had a preference to express.
It's good to *know* that many workers do in fact have a preference, so the job market can accommodate it.
@robotistry @carnage4life "normal distribution" here is the technical term for the distribution of success and failure from the company's perspective.
A bunch of companies undertook a project: RTO.
Some will succeed, some will fail. That's a normal distribution. Based on the numbers presented, well over half succeeded. For most projects of this sort, that's a good success rate.
A solution?
To convert the unused office space into apartments for employees.
Yes, I know it is welfare capitalism¹, but since nobody seems to have the guts to start to expropriate companies, it's better than the current situation, and perhaps landlords will understand they can't raise their requests forever.
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@carnage4life not to sound like a broken record or anything but ...
Who could have predicted? Well, everybody, but other than that ... who, who could have predicted?
"In other words, staff members were more open to returning to the office if it was out of choice, rather than forced."
Wow, who knew that people are happier when they have some amount of agency? /s
Translation: We knew they didn’t like it, but we thought we could make most of them go along anyway, like usual.
Next the free market bros will be asking big daddy government for handouts or for even shittier regulations bc “staff aren’t playing nice!” and “our profits aren’t big enough!”
@carnage4life OFC noone wants to suffer for the escalating commitment to overpriced commercial real estate leases.
Seriously, noone has ever given me a good argument why I should suffer from unpaid labour aka. commute and waste my own money and time to do so when I can work fully remote?
It just doesn't make sense to me.
Give others the floorspace that can't work remotely or that do have a legitimate reason for being in an office, warehouse or store:
Like if they have clients visiting...
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