I slogged through half of that pitiful excuse of an article before dismissing it as the same old tired victim-complex whinging which sounds like a toddler who wasn't allowed to fill their fists with all the candy they could carry in the checkout aisle.
Over here, the vote was unanimously in favour of continuing to work from home. From the "white dude bros" to the "poor underpaid PoC single moms", no one wanted to have to travel in to the office to perform office work that they've been doing perfectly well for the past two year.
From sitting in traffic, fuel costs, parking costs, garbage public transport, having to deal with the kids' school/sports travel arrangements, and just general shitty open-plan office environment.
If your task for today is to sit in quiet concentration and finish some mechanical engineering design, or reconcile account ledgers, or review an internal audit report, or push code from dev to production on a Friday afternoon, why do you need to waste two hours in traffic to sit in a human battery farm, when instead, you can complete the same task from home in half the time with half the mistakes?
The people who are slacking off at home and being unproductive, are the same people who, when in the office, mastered the art of appearing to be busy, while playing their managers like a fiddle and not meeting any of their deliverables, and instead float around the office distracting and disturbing the people who are actually working.
IMHO, if the issue is employee performance, then forcing bums into seats and having the manager walk up and down like a schoolteacher is an archaic way of attempting to solve the problem. Invest in a proper ticket/action/project management system to track whether work is being done, and let the managers spend their time distributing the work among their team instead of timing their reportees' toilet breaks.
I slogged through half of that pitiful excuse of an article before dismissing it as the same old tired victim-complex whinging which sounds like a toddler who wasn't allowed to fill their fists with all the candy they could carry in the checkout aisle.
Over here, the vote was unanimously in favour of continuing to work from home. From the "white dude bros" to the "poor underpaid PoC single moms", no one wanted to have to travel in to the office to perform office work that they've been doing perfectly well for the past two year.
From sitting in traffic, fuel costs, parking costs, garbage public transport, having to deal with the kids' school/sports travel arrangements, and just general shitty open-plan office environment.
If your task for today is to sit in quiet concentration and finish some mechanical engineering design, or reconcile account ledgers, or review an internal audit report, or push code from dev to production on a Friday afternoon, why do you need to waste two hours in traffic to sit in a human battery farm, when instead, you can complete the same task from home in half the time with half the mistakes?
The people who are slacking off at home and being unproductive, are the same people who, when in the office, mastered the art of appearing to be busy, while playing their managers like a fiddle and not meeting any of their deliverables, and instead float around the office distracting and disturbing the people who are actually working.
IMHO, if the issue is employee performance, then forcing bums into seats and having the manager walk up and down like a schoolteacher is an archaic way of attempting to solve the problem. Invest in a proper ticket/action/project management system to track whether work is being done, and let the managers spend their time distributing the work among their team instead of timing their reportees' toilet breaks.