Why are companies that promote remote services so opposed to enabling remote work, and more importantly, feel the need to threaten their employees?

CEOs Are Using Return To Office Mandates To Mask Poor Management::Why are companies that promote remote services so opposed to enabling remote work, and more importantly, feel the need to threaten their employees?

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    11 months ago

    RTO itself is poor management. it’s 2024, what the fuck are you doing. office work isn’t some peak utopian concept, it’s only really been a thing for around a century, and it’s grown increasingly miserable as productivity skyrockets while wages don’t. any honest person hates it, and it is objectively archaic now that we have the internet

    yeah, zoom meetings do suck, talking is more awkward, collaboration is harder, vibes are harder to maintain. but in no universe should that take precedent over the massive quality of life improvements WFH offers for the worker. internal work dynamics mean fuck all versus not having to leave your home/family/pets for 8+ hours every day

    • hex_m_hell@slrpnk.netEnglish
      191·
      11 months ago

      Read “Bullshit Jobs” if you haven’t. Most “work” is really always been about control and enforcing a religious ideology that being subservient to someone else makes you a better person. Return to work is about the psychological domination of workers. We all know it was never about productivity but about justifying inequity through institutionalized sadism.

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      in no universe should that take precedent over the massive quality of life improvements WFH offers for the worker

      They don’t give 1/10th of a shit about worker comfort or joy. It’s all about shareholder profits and control. And as the article was saying, about trying to dump blame. The great thing is, again, as stated in the article, that these RTO companies are severely limiting their talent pool. It will start to become clearer and clearer that companies that moved totally WFH retain employees and will see more benefits for their bottom line.

      I mean, think about it for two seconds, how can renting office space and equipment and all the office supplies in every office location for one company be justified when all it gives you is a smaller talent pool, less happy workers making productivity sink and and turnover skyrocket, and an excuse when you need it?

      It’s just craziness. It’s stupid bosses and rich people sacrificing the worker for…I honestly don’t know what is driving them to do this, because I can’t imagine they are getting any benefit at all.

      • hex_m_hell@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        They don’t care about profits any more than feudalism did. It’s about domination and sadism. Read “Bullshit Jobs” if you want to understand the dynamics here. Profit had absolutely nothing to do with it.