Attendance can be mandated. Commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.

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.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    And completely destroying moralle.The in office landscape has completely changed since pre-pandemic. I drive 40 minutes one way to a building where I either get immersed in a project in my cubical on my computer or I sit on Teams meetings. And meetings are virtual first now. Physical attendance optional. Half the time I’m on a call with someone a few cubes up from me.

    Don’t get me wrong. The “virtual first” mindset is great. Most of the corporate world of finally figured out that we can schedule meetings and Outlook even has this really cool feature that allows you to send people invites to said meetings.

    The problem is that there is no legitimate reason that I should have to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time per year to do the exact same shit I do from home but slower, less efficiently, and much less comfortably.