Posted on 08/15/2023 10:58:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The corporations decided to go in lockstep with petty government tyrants and now they are sad when employees tell them to pack sand. 75% of the corporate suite could be fired tomorrow and no one, especially the stockholders, would miss them.
Zactly.
If KPI’s and MBO’s were measuring tools in the past then they can be measuring tools going forward.
I have a friend who is a VP of sales and was informed she and her team to need to be in office 3 days a week.
Well, many tried to come to office but, found no one else was their and the commute wasn’t worth the effort so, back to working in pajamas and they still over achieve....
Company I just left made it mandatory to come to office everyday. Why? Who knows. It’s not like we ever had a meeting to discuss anything and besides, I’m in outside sales.
WTH would you want your people in the office everyday to do nothing, particularly your highest performers?
That was their answer to dwindling sales and loss of existing revenue.
Lame....
I left...
If they really were worried about carbon footprint, working from home is a really easy solution.
I drive about 5k/year now and most of that is vacations.
In reality, this is all about Commercial Real Estate.
SF is getting pummeled with vacancy and vacancy penalties.
Commercial real estate is dropping in SF.
I am retired, but I still have contacts back at my job.
They told everybody they had to come to work 3 days a week, but they don’t have enough desks. Now the managers are fighting over desks for their employees. Some people come at 7 AM and grab a desk while one is still available.
Some of us are applauding it because we warned about these inevitable consequences way back in March 2020 when this COVID idiocy started.
Now these morons are reaping what they’ve sown. Too bad.
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Good point.
They regret it because employees revolted, the best ones quit, and the managers wound up looking stupid
Every last one of them is a duplicitous jerk but, nice try(punks).
Ain’t no one coming back.
Take Great American Parkway in Santa Clara.
About 3 miles long, East to West.
Take a left turn or a right turn anywhere on Great America and travel North or South. 60% of building are empty husks and the rest are partially occupied.
Intel pretty much stabbed many of their loyal employees.
Many of their best left for better treatment and pay.
Now the only employees they can find are those who are stuck or suck.
If you’re job can be done from home, it can ultimately be done by A.I.
These people have leverage, until they don’t.
Zactly what happened at the company I just left.
They had people coming to office who where in outside sales before covid.
They then dumped sales nationally and only had Customer Account Managers.
When I hired back, after a year and a half, I informed them in the interview I could not do that.
Not 3 weeks after starting job, they made it mandatory or fired.
Dasvidaniya...
“The physical office is a relic of the past and only to be used by outdated industries.”
We started seeing that reality before we could spell covid.
One of my wife’s long time friends and a relative gave their notices to their bosses re retiring due to the increase in traffic, wear and tear on their vehicles and them and costs to go to work 5 days a week.
Their former company’s ended up installing offices in their homes and giving them raises to come back to work from their home offices. They worked from their homes during and post Covid B$!
Post Covid, we have 3 younger relatives cutting deals re working fewer days but more hours per day. Basically they work 3~ 12 hour days and get a weeks pay.
One BIL by marriage took retirement during the covid B$ because his company kept adding unpaid hours and work.
Now, he works 3 half days/week, sharing an office in his hometown, with his wife. He still gets his retirement and benefits, and he charges his company a flat fee for 3 hour work days. His company provides all computer/phones and other electronic business tools/services. Also, he has zero travel and no living in airports.
His wife jokes that they/he can do this for decades.
Not coming to an office is a perk that doesn’t cost money to offer so, Catch-22 on the one hand.
On the other is you are judge off KPI’s or MBO’s and regulary exceed them, why would you care where your employee is?
In 2008 the average speed for Internet at home was 3 meg.
In 2020 everyone has a better than 80, 500 meg or 1 Gig connection.
You can send and receive some pretty large files on those connections and still have priority and bandwidth for multimedia...
As I stated on another post, many of my customers are paying for logo to be on the outside of the building but, in 2025...The end.
They are just going to continue to work from home and they don’t care if their employees are on a cruise ship, so long as their complete their tasks.
Bankruptcies will skyrocket in the beginning of 2025 and continue for years as the courts will be backlogged and more companies figure they can work from home and newer companies just never have an office.
Bosses who insist on presenteeism for the sake of it are nutters.
Zactly
In many case a difference without distinction...
7AM? I've already been at work for two hours by then.
I WFH and I start everyday at 5:00AM.
Nope--that's too broad a brush to paint with.
I've been trying to figure out if my job could be done by AI.
So far, I haven't been able to visualize it--even if I were to go all Sci-Fi.
A tight labor market will do that.
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Yep. All the weinies who can’t focus for more than 15 minutes at a time and need their bunny slippers and chai latte are going to blame the whole big, mean, horrible world for not giving them a paycheck when jobs dry up and employers actually get to pick and chose the best producers from the lot.
Of course, that doesn't prevent people from always believing it. Just like there are people who for decades have believed Algore every time he's warned us that we have only 5 or 10 years left.
As long as they force everyone to keep the video on during Zoom calls so race tabulations can be verified, everything should be OK.
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