If you get fired every couple years or if HR runs a check and your past employers said you sucked and left cause you were denied a raise despite that fact or whatever. Yeah not helping.
But if you move because you keep developping your own skills and essentially become under-employed at your previous jobs, that’s not negative at all.
At least its working for me. Already did 2 certificates and i’m looking to do 2 more + get by Class 3 Driver’s license (no clue what its called in the US, basically medium trucks) which is way overkill for my current job so once i have them i’ll bounce for another employer you will need (therefore value) these skills.
It isn’t “people should be in the office so they work”, it’s “people need to be in the office so middle management will have some perceived value”.
Because without the ability to stand around while there are people, the emperor has no clothes and everyone can see what a pointless waste of money middle management is.
You’re right I am making an assumption based on information presented. And if they’re going around saying that there’s a crisis map on things that won’t be able to get done due to employee attrition, do you think it’s a good idea to implement something that employees at Blizzard have voiced that they don’t want to do?
I’ve always been in two minds about this. If you were already working in the office before WFH came into effect, then you can find a way to do it again. However if you were hired during WFH and RTO will either upend your whole life or something along those lines, then you should be granted some leeway.
Sure. If the company wants to reduce revenue forecasts to make up for the lower productivity if people want to work in the office.
But upper management wants to have their cake and it it, too. They want to stop the policies that led to higher productivity, but still stick their heads in the sand and expect that higher activity to happen.
They’re strangling their golden goose for no good reason.
Imagine working remotely and figuring out you can live a significantly better QoL by not being in the office. Would you return to an area where you’re totally priced out of the market?
Of course you would, because you like the boot. But reasonable people would go find better work elsehwere.
I was a very hard worker when I worked for someone else on their timecard.
I had offers literally on the job by other companies wanting me to come work for them.
I also moved thru a long list of jobs when they failed to meet MY requirements, lol.
I do my own thing now and have no trouble getting or keeping clients.
That all said, if one is going to work FOR a company one does what that company requires. If one cant deal with that, one needs to resign and find other work.
Seems like it’s tied to the rest of your safety net and rights in the US: IE- Corpos control it all.
Imagine actually having rights like other countries. Real vacation time, real benefits, real retirement, etc. I swear y’all don’t know you’re in a third-world dystopia at this point.
No, shrinking WFH numbers prove that companies are trying to put their feet down. That doesn’t mean it’s proven that WFH is less productive or worthwhile.
There are stupid upper management across the business spectrum. In fact, I’d say that most upper management is pretty stupid. They have zero understanding of what makes their businesses successful.
And when they wreck their company’s revenues, they’ll blame everybody but themselves and then get a golden parachute to their next gig at whatever firm they’ll ruin next time.
If it was so magically successful small and medium sized businesses would use it. But that’s not the case either, so if you want to hop on Brewa’s paranoia go for it.
You can shout until you’re red in the face that WFH is ‘superior’, but reality is not agreeing with you. The fact that more working-class Americans prefer the hybrid model of work over pure WFH completely craps on any conspiracy you or Brewa throw out.
So you’re telling me that the companies pushing back against WFH have no vested interest in misrepresentation and lies to remove the thing they they’re trying to assert control over?
I will tell it to France, lolol. They get something taken away, they riot. They have a much better QoL and balance with their employers than you do in the US.
You have zero rights. Your employers can fire you at any time. You don’t have any unions fighting for your benefits. You’re literally backsliding to what life was like before early unions gave you some modicum of control and you still lick da boot.
The French government has been working on that little problem over the last 20 years. The government will win that war, sadly. Unless drastic measures are taken.