Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.

RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.

  • @hardcoreufoEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    If I had a job where I could work from home I think I’d rather be in the office most of the time but I would appreciate the flexibility. I just really hate zoom meetings. I find most in person meetings can be done a little more spur of the moment and you are in and out in 5-15 minutes where the scheduled zoom meetings are an hour of some upper manager droning on in an attempt to justify their existence.

    I’m much happier that 99% of the time I’m physically working on machines and not in face to face or zoom meetings but that’s just been my experience.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

      Yeah but when you’re trying to get some work done, do you like having people interrupting you for 5-15 minutes?

      There are days when I go into the office and the bosses aren’t there. On those days I think “good, I can actually get some work done today.”

      I suppose it depends on the kind of work you do, but for many kinds of work, any kind of meeting represents a loss in productivity. Impromptu meetings, even if shorter, can be worse because it interrupts what I’m doing.