Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
In the years after the epidemic lockdown the RTO mandates started coming hard and fast, and it was evident for two clear reasons.
a) Upper management was feeling lonely and wanted its entourage back. They feel powerful when they see busy workers being busy for their benefit. See also BULLSHIT JOBS, and…
b) Companies were stuck in leases of expensive business space that was now empty, and that just felt too wasteful, so the vibes solution was RTO mandates.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
My company forced everyone back saying things like “we will never go back to fully remote work”.
A year later, we went remote and they started downsizing our office.
I suspect our lease was up.