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Good. Return to office is evil and needs to be stopped.
Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).
The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.
I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.
Aye. My company has three offices, and people are allowed (and encouraged) to use those as necessary. People do enjoy the social aspect too, hell even I do, but I do best working from home. I've worked in offices previously and while I can manage it for a time, I eventually burn out. I don't exactly wish to burn out so for me to be a functioning member of society I genuinely need work from home.
No one who mandates return to office should be in a position where they're empowered to make those decisions.
Labor needs to organize and say no
This is intentional. They are doing this to force people to quit without firing them.
As a bonus, the people who leave tend to be the most skilled, and thus the highest paid, making their bottom line look even better!
Of course this also destroys morale, productivity, and long-term will probably tank the company, but as long as line go up now for shareholders/owners the ones at the top don’t care. After all, they’ll just walk away with their golden parachutes guaranteeing a safe landing.
Cool. Get dunked, ~~hipsters' Electronic Arts~~ Paradox Interactive.