80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’
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As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
  •  Madison_rogue   ( @Madison_rogue@kbin.social ) 
    132•11 months ago

    A whopping 80% of bosses regret their initial return-to-office decisions and say they would have approached their plans differently if they had a better understanding of what their employees wanted, according to new research from Envoy.

    See, it’s never their fault. Look how they’re trying to deflect it back to the employees. I would say employees definitely made their wishes known in regards to returning to work. These bosses and executives can fuck off.

    •  Square Singer   ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 
      42•11 months ago

      If there only was an easy way of understanding what employees wanted… But alas, since there isn’t, forcing people to do something and then measuring how many of them resign seems to be the best way to figure it out.

      •  Jimmycrackcrack   ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 
        13•11 months ago

        “if only we’d had a better understanding of what employees wanted”

        “I want to work from home”

        “It’s difficult to make decisions about real estate arrangements when we’re not sure how our employees will feel in a month’s time”

        “I want to work from home”

        “We need more data about employees needs”

        “I could submit this in writing if it helps, I want to work from home”

        “WE NEED MORE DATA! GET THE FUCK BACK TO YOUR DESK”

    •  jecxjo   ( @jecxjo@midwest.social ) English
      36•11 months ago

      They knew. They say that because they don’t actually want to fulfill their employees needs.

      We want to WFH because we dont want a 2hr unpayed commute. The way that ks fixed is for employees to consider the commute part of their 9-5 but that means we are really only doing 10-4 with an hour from lunch.

      We want WFH because our lunch breaks don’t easily get taken over by meetings because we arent sitting at our desk of the break room. The hour is an actual hour you can’t contact me so more “lost time”.

      With WFH its harder to keep people around after hours as they can quickly mark their chat so to afk. That means no more 4:30 pop ins saying we need to stay late.

      Turns out that when your employees can force their work time no one givea away free time. When you end WFH and try to squeeze out more time you’re going to piss off a lot of people.