Employers offering remote and hybrid work options hire new talent more quickly than companies making employees to return to the office.
  • ramble81@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    1 year ago

    Control is another thing. I can’t tell you the amount of execs I’ve heard say “they’re losing control of their company” or “I don’t feel I have the same control over my people”. It’s crazy that they think that. What do they think the past 3 years have been when they’ve gotten record profits “oh, but our profits would be even better if we had people back in the office”. Sadly no amount of data will override the entrepreneurial “it could always be more” what if that they throw out.

    • KzadBhat@feddit.de
      12·
      1 year ago

      I’m working in IT and as my last team lead hasn’t had any technical knowledge in my area, and he didn’t had to for his job, he wouldn’t even be able to control what I’m doing, …

      • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
        11·
        1 year ago

        He couldn’t control whether you’re doing your work properly, but he can control that you "pretend* to be controlled by him.

        It’s never about making you a better worker, it’s just about the illusion of control.

        Think about it, when was the last time you had an interaction with your superior that actually had anything to do with your actual job? It’s all just a huge charade.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Any executive who has “lost control” of their business by allowing their employees to work from home is no more than the ring master of a runaway circus that they never actually controlled to begin with.

      I’ve had the unfortunate displeasure of working for at least one company that made a full time job of keeping their employees under their thumb and I can say this much: the more you micromanage your workforce, the better your workforce becomes at professional time wasting. By that I mean finding creative ways to look very busy while achieving nothing of benefit to the organization.

      But then again, much of the corporate world runs on incompetence so poor business decisions based on some executives feelings, rather than statistics, aren’t exactly rare.