• ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    This is exactly what my wife is experiencing in her state gov position. It’s a hybrid state/corp department and the CEO says they need to RTO even though he admits they are more productive at home. He literally said it’s because they are still paying for the building and feel it’s being underutilized. They have been remote for 5 years and some of the employees moved across the state and most have said they are quitting.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      moved across the state and most have said they are quitting.

      Let me fix this for you: “genius CEO stealthily does layoffs by convincing people to quit on their own. Hires cheaper replacements”

      Don’t quit. Make them fire you. Work a second job while you wait. Fuck em.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      This CEO should be immediately canned for incompetence. Anyone who can’t understand the sunk cost fallacy has no business running any organization.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    2 months ago

    This meme illustrates by example one of the key failures of capitalism:

    Upper management doesn’t see itself as responsible for overseeing staff to maximize their productivity via data-driven methods (e.g. let them have human lives while they work)

    Upper management sees staff as their courtiers and garden hermits there to emphasize how important the execs are.

    Hence RTO mandates rather than letting them telecommute or giving them sweet workspace at the office.

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Upper management sees staff as their courtiers…

      My compliments to your vocabulary and effective word choice.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    We need to start taxing companies more that put undue burden on the infrastructure and environment. Do you require your employees to come in to an office for work that could be done from home? You should have to pay a double employer payroll tax for every employee you do this to. We need to start taxing the vanity of CEOs.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
      4·
      2 months ago

      Their mortgages have clauses that cost them when tenants are not operating onsite. It devalues restaurants and stores in the area. I’m not saying it’s right. It’s just how it works. Tenants have to do business on site during the lease or they pay fees and their landlords have to pay the banks.

      Source: I work in commercial real estate.

        • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’ll try to look some up today but I think it varies by lease and by loan. You can’t apply the same rules to a warehouse as an office as a grocery store. Also, big spaces are different than small restaurants. Might not be consequences for a Chipotle but there could be for a grocery store in the same strip mall. The leases negotiated between the landlord and the tenant also have to be approved by the lender.

          The whole thing is called “going dark”, meaning they are still paying rent but not operating on the premises. It causes the borrower/landlord to go into something called “cash management”. They lose the ability to collect rents directly. It all gets sent to a special lockbox that the lender has access to. They use those funds to post the payment and other things like that. They send a portion back to the borrow for operating expenses then hold onto the rest. The borrower also has to pay cash management and bank account fees when this happens.

          I remember there was a big fight at a shopping center near me because a grocery store wanted to move the grocery location and open a giant liquor store in its place but the landlord didn’t like that. I believe they ended up terminating the lease and a different grocery store moved in. My company didn’t handle that loan so I don’t know the details but I knew that the loan was likely the real reason for the fight.

          • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 months ago

            Oh also, the zoning and type of property matters too. A strip mall has different requirements than an office or hotel. Obviously

  • percent@infosec.pub
    5·
    2 months ago

    With ADHD and social anxiety, I’m more productive when the office is less social. I definitely got much more productive when I started working from home.