Of employers who forced staff back to the office, 42% said "attrition" was higher than normal, 21% said the move had actually lost them some of their "key" staff. 29% were now "struggling" to recruit altogether. Ha ha ha. https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/wfh_rto_survey/
@brucelawson@Roach Important to note that this isn't just "existing employees were allowed to work remotely and quit when recalled"; many companies hired remote workers during COVID and the remote workers never intended or agreed to come into the office.
@andresmh Yes, but unfortunately not the "workers of least profit value to the company"* left, which would have been the case with good-old handmade layoffs, butt the "most valuable workers"* left on their own. ON THEIR OWN! @brucelawson
As you may have guessed, the terms within the " mean human beings, I wrote it that way so MBAs, controllers, bosses and "optimizers" could understand.
@brucelawson@joshwayne I've been working mostly remote for 38 years. Back in '81 I was a radical weirdo for doing so. Sad that it took a pandemic for it to become fully mainstream.
In my social circle only older employees (men > 60) rejoyce at going back to 100% on-site. The rest demands between 4-5 home office days per week and is prepared to leave the company if their employers should be stupid enough to force them back onsite full time. Meanwhile nobody I know willingly applies for jobs that demand 100% on-site because they are as old-fashioned as VHS tape in the IT sector. #Employers need to grow up and let go of the past.
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