cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/70241850
Wasn’t quite sure what community to post this…
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72 percent suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs.
The damage is strategic, not merely emotional. Baylor University’s reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile.
Isn’t this already widely known? Follow the pattern. First: strict and abrupt RTO with no exceptions. Second: layoffs.
I have watched this pattern happen in the news but also to friends and family mostly in the IT industry.
After COVID, I never wanted to work in an office again. During COVID, I had a constant stream of big companies that asked me to move to their companies. I always bat them away see how awesome my work was with how they took care of COVID and they even talked about making this permanent.
CEO for swapped out and within a few weeks, he implemented a RTO, first with 1 day a week.
My VP was the first to go. He brought me over. After leaving, I bought over my smartest and hardest working employees and left the shit lazy ones that I knew was quit quiting.
Worked at that company for a few years and new CEO got the RTO feelings and this time I left. I told my emplees to leave too and at the end, nobody ran the team.
Valuable people have mobility. Shit employees don’t.
The first company implemented remote work with options. I don’t trust them anymore and would never go back.
The first company implemented remote work with options. I don’t trust them anymore and would never go back.
If the price was right, I’d absolutely go back with a full remote work position. These organizations have no institutional memory. Holding a grudge for something a CEO three CEOs ago could be cutting off your nose to spike your face. There is no longevity in the corporate world anymore anywhere. The optimized path for workers is to get the highest salary for the most tolerable conditions for as long as it lasts until the salary falls or the conditions become intolerable.
If you have better options elsewhere, sure go elsewhere, but if that old employer is offering the most compensation with the best conditions, I would say its the best place to go…until it isn’t again.
That’s true. I’m mostly working at mid sized companies now that can’t afford buying their own buildings. Most of these companies don’t have the incentives or capacity to require RTO and have a productive engineering team.