Curious to see as it seems to be a trend lately
Mandatory hybrid 3 days a week.
The rule was unequally applied. Lots of people left. Some got laid off. Many more are looking. No one is happy.
Hybrid. Not happy.
It’s an excellent opportunity to dust off the resume.
You can pry my work pajamas from my cold dead hands.
Article on Dell from a month ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells-workforce-refused-to-return-to-the-office/
Interesting related data point (since there aren’t many answers here yet, and I hope to stir more) - my company embraced remote hiring aggressively and recruited a fantastic batch of talent.
I figured, remote work and all, it would be easy come, easy go. I figured we might lose remote folks as quick as we recruited them. I was wrong.
So far, annecdotaly, our staff attrition rate is significantly below what it was when we hired 100% in-person, all things considered.
I saw this at my last job as well. My division was fully remote and had almost no turnover. We were also very productive, despite relatively poor leadership. Turns out when people like their jobs, they don’t leave.
My company made a big push for moving everyone in person last year as long as they were within an hour and a half of one of the offices. Between the 8 people in my department and 12 in another department I work with a lot, this affected no one. Even if it did, my department would only end up with 2 people in the same office, and they have relatively separate jobs.
They were asked several months after the mandate if there was any noticeable or quantifiable increase in productivity, moral, etc… ofc there wasn’t but they said they “felt like it was better” . They also mandated that all new hires will be in person at one specific office… The office that they paid for a very large extension to be built at just before covid and just got completed last year. Go figure.
It was never about productivity, it was always about useless managers needing to act important, and property owners keeping their property value.
A company I was at tried it and all developers said they’d quit if the policy were introduced. Management backed down really quickly after that.
Hooray for unions, even if informal.
