In corporate boardrooms across the globe, lively debate is occurring around getting employees to return to the office. After more than two years of pandemic-forced remote work, many CEOs want employees in the office. Others have decided employees can work from home for as long as they want.
After weighing both of these positions, we have concluded that there are specific detriments to remote work and its impact on employees — especially those just beginning their careers. In a competitive corporate environment, where sustaining a technical edge is key, only extraordinary teamwork and the transmission of expertise and experience across generations enables a company to outperform. This interaction is best achieved physically. Face-to-face meetings online work to a point, but not as well as gathering in a conference room where ideas are discussed and confronted until a solution emerges.
In his masterful memoir, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” author Viktor Frankel shows that our primary driver in life is not pleasure, but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Locked inside their homes during the pandemic, many workers discovered this insight. They asked themselves whether their organization, or their job, provided the meaning they searched for in life.The main responsibility of a CEO and top management nowadays must be to create a workplace that is full with meaning.
Organization leaders need to explore a new set of challenges, ones that will require them to rethink how to on-board and integrate newcomers. Further, organizations must transmit experience and technical expertise across generations and maintain workers’ sense of belonging.
They will in a 9 months when unemployment is closer to 10%
Nor will B.S. applicants be hired.
“Ummm excuse me but ummmm you umm my stapler….”
They will when they need the money again
Wait till they experience their first actual economic recession. 😂😂😂
I believe US jobs need to adapt to a friendlier worker environment. Jobs need to be more beneficial than just required. That's why unions are beneficial to a lot of industries. But unions need to be accountable & should have reforms to be better for each side. POTUS
Workers do not need to go back in the office. We've all proven that we can do our jobs from home. Nobody gives a fuck about parking lot luauas and all the other bullshit were supposedly 'missing out on.' Let your workers work and be happy. Jesus fucking christ.
Many companies focus more on building an imaginary company culture than actually focusing on what makes an employee want to work there like: paying people appropriately, giving them a career path, and actually listening to employee feedback
Companies are so Bad right now. They only focus on profit, bad management, and toxic work environment. Humans are the blame.
Return-to-office is sustainable only if wage ratio of CEO-to-average worker comes down significantly. Top management can’t have both top dollars and slaving others unfairly!
This article is pro ‘return to office’ case with misleading title! The article is imposing imaginary hurdles that fresh & experienced talents would be facing, of course hypothetically.
This is perfect.
Define BS job. Because they probably have a BS degree
Then I guess they are not coming back
“Both sides have compelling arguments” Wrong!
“I wouldn’t say that I’ve been missing it”
What is a BS job if it provides income?
The trash media working hard this weekend. Companies survived, and in many cases, were more productive with employees working remotely. To all hard working employees (you know, the people doing the actual work) who don’t want to be back in the office, continue to push back!
They will when the recession it taking big bites and those that opted out opt back in. And the covid $ runs out. Labour supply and demand will return to their normal yin and yan positions on the economy.
When there is a Recession they will be begging for jobs
Ok, they’ll find someone to fill it. We have 2 mil hard working and patriotic asylum seekers just waiting to start working!!!
This part! 👇🏽
that is why cvs and walgreens are having trouble staffing their retail pharmacies. there is no shortage of licensed pharmacists, there is just a shortage of pharmacists that want to be treated poorly while they are trying to help the patients that they serve.
Companies win when their staff believes in the mission and does good work. Personally, I found that meant leaving them alone to do their thing. As long as they completed their task well and on time, I really didn't care where or how they did it.
“Employers must give them a reason — not an order.” It’s called unemployment.