Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.
I’ve seen just as many reports that work from home is productive as those that say it isn’t. Maybe these companies just might be looking to be efficient? Why is it always a Bond villain plot?
If we don’t know we need more data.
And if efficiency is the same, why not give the employees the freedom to wfh?
This isn’t about efficiency, but about control.
It’s not the same. That’s the point.
It’s situational… the on that the papers all quoted that claimed workimg from home was less productive was based on about 200 data entry clerks in India. It doesn’t really apply outside that business and the sample was so small you couldn’t draw a conclusion anyway.
Meanwhile plenty of cases of productivity increasing (including ours) and they’re situational too.
I think it’ll come down to… Good companies can get the best out of workers wherever they are. If managers have issues with productivity they need to look in the mirror.
