Dear CEO, Why are you suddenly down on flexible & fluid workplaces (aka remote or WFH)?
There have been a host of organizations who have made the decision to move back to office, after 4 years or so of SUCCESSFULLY working from home and supporting all the worker preferences of a true flexible and fluid distributed workplace. How do I know they are successful? Almost NONE of them lost money during the pandemic itself. They only started losing stock value in the last 8 months after the pandemic ended. DURING the pandemic almost all of these organizations thrived.
So what the heck suddenly happened? Why are y’all blaming remote working on your market misfortunes now?
I have some theories and they are all related to poor, short-sighted investing in real estate. But that is just an assumption. Ya see, what’s changed now, is that y’all let go of a high percentage of your staff and well, that has left you with a lot of empty seats you feel bad about paying for. Ya see if you explicitly targeted all of your remote employees you might find yourself with backlash due the fact that many of them are women (caregivers), people with neurodiversity, disabled, and other groups we are sympathetic to.
Let’s assume my assumption is wrong. That the remote experiment failed in these organizations. I’d really love to see the “proof” though. Why did the…
