Access to this page has been denied
thehill.com
px-captcha

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    I cannot explain how fucking terrible that is to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. If you still have cubicles, consider them a luxury.

    I’ve worked with people that would innocently say about “open plans” - “well, at least it’s not a cubicle farm”. Also, I’ve had co-workers that liked/advocated for for those “cubicles” that are less than waist-high. I’ve been in some corporate shops where the cubicle walls were about 8 feet high, and honestly, short of having real offices, they are far better than having an open plan. Cubicles get a bad rap since things can always be worse.

    I cannot even comprehend wanting to have an “open plan” and trying to do knowledge work. I’ve done it, and I absolutely hated it. Some people even had the fucking balls to ask why I used headphones. In open plans, virtually any passer-by can just “drop-in” for a quick chat if you are near a high-traffic area, like, say, a printer.