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@joyandhope I had bad bosses, don't get me wrong. 1) A supervisor at the loading dock at Sears on my first day wanted me to physically lift a 1400# lawn tractor into the bed of a customer's pickup. The crane was broken, the mobile ramp was down, and it would have been me just picking it up and...

@joyandhope And in my youth, I was a hustler. I ran a firewood business and a lawn care business (with my airline pilot dad who was only home 3 days a week) at 9 years old (he bought the equipment and ran the chain saw - I did the grunt work and all the lawn care - we split it 3 ways - one for...

@huey Okay, you're right and all the metrics are wrong. I apologize and I'll go hide in the corner now. /s Do you really think companies want their employees back in the office if it's cheaper to leave them at home? Get your head out of your . . . turtleneck . . . and think. Use that blue...

@ke1220 All but one of those "studies" talking about productivity increases were including employee-side benefits like reduced commuting time and reduced daycare costs as company benefits. That isn't how productivity is measured in the sense that businesses say "productivity is down". Yes, in...

@ke1220 The point was being made that RTO has reduced productivity. It has only done so because is happening. They're not getting pre-Covid levels of output, they're not getting WFH levels of output. It amounts to an informal work action (I'm not opposed to that, I'm not even arguing that WFH...

@ke1220 Take it up with the University of Chicago. That was their phrase I borrowed. And you do if you want to be considered for any higher position. It's common policy in many companies that you need to be able and willing to do the job you want to be promoted into. EDS (the first consulting...

@joyandhope https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/work-from-home-productivity-evidence-from-personnel-analytics-data-on-it-professionals/ 30% more hours, 20% less production. Yes, the young generation being told to come back to the office is "quiet quitting" there and making the...

@joyandhope Dude, the youngest boomers are in their 60s and don't give a rat's ass about in or out of the office. The majority of them are retired. This is driven by a stunning drop in productivity with the WFH trend coupled with the measurable lack of motivation of the most recent generation...