Three years after the coronavirus pandemic sent people to work from home in record numbers, U.S. employers are still struggling to get people back to the office.

Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds::Three years after the coronavirus pandemic sent people to work from home in record numbers, U.S. employers are still struggling to get people back to the office.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    9 months ago

    Probably sunk cost fallacy with the lease. Building is paid for, why not use it and also be better able to micromanage your drones?

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The implication is that when those leases come up over the next few years, office space will be cleared out, and we’ll see companies give up on return to office mandates. We’ll have a glut of commercial real estate to rezone and convert into residential apartments (either total rebuild or remodeling the existing space, depending on the building). Work from home should settle into a constant rate, perhaps even slowly growing as more workers come to expect it.

      • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        As a manager, I can tell you it’s not about management. None of us asked for return to office. In fact the vast majority of managers at my company have been pushing back hard, which is the only way we got a hybrid schedule. It really comes down to being all about real estate, local taxes, optics, C-levels stuck in the old ways of doing things and wanting to return to “the good old days”.

        I don’t give a crap where my employees are working as long as they get shit done and can reply during business hours when shit hits the fan.

        • cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Management are just a bunch of pawns. I write this as a manager. It’s about the assholes at the top wanting to control other people’s lives.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          They are holding bags that they want to get rid of before they need to accept the capital losses after assuming office real estate would be a sure bet and then the world changed in March 2020.