'Employees are not showing up': Return-to-office plans unravel as workers revolt in tight job market

, arguing that it’s no substitute for the spontaneous idea generation that results from bumping into colleagues at the coffee machine. But in his annual letter to shareholders last month, the head of America’s biggest bank allowed that working from home “will become more permanent in American business,” and estimated that about 40 per cent of his 270,000-person workforce would work under a hybrid model, which includes days in the office and at home.

A person is reflected in a window of a JPMorgan Chase & Co. bank branch across the street from the company’s headquarters in New York.“We are seeing policies slip in real time,” said Melissa Swift, the U.S. transformation leader at workforce consultant Mercer. “There was previously all this talk about how, for white-collar jobs, collaborating in the office was important. That’s slipping. Now, only the people who need to turn a screwdriver need to be in the office.

For some companies, there’s no longer any debate. Airbnb Inc. had previously pegged September 2022 as its return to the office, but Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky dumped that plan last month, instead telling his 6,000 employees that they could

It’ll be funny when the companies don’t issue the T2200s anymore. More snowflake outrage on the horizon!!!

The seeming majority of people now support working from home. I don’t think they are thinking this through. If you have proven your job can be accomplished remotely, your employer now has the world to staff your position from. Not sure people will like the outcome of that.

If your job can legitimately be done from home, the employer can probably outsource you to India or the Philippines for 20cents on the dollar. And should.

A business not willing to embrace remote work is living in the past

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