Time to Return to the Office?

Many organisations are struggling with how to get workers to come back to the office after they have been working remotely. At first, different companies tried incentives, ranging from better food to more relaxed working conditions, but these do not seem to have done the trick.

Let's face it: employees do not want to return to the office. Once you have gone months or even years without the daily commute, endless pointless meetings, office gossip and backstabbing and the like, you probably will not be tempted back with the sorts of incentives that have been offered to date.

As a result, companies are increasingly resorting to more coercive approaches. Many major organisations are now threatening employees with a range of sanctions, including dismissal if they do not return to the office. Many companies are calling for some sort of hybrid work week, with two or three days a week at the office and rest of the week done remotely, but there is an increasingly shrill and almost desperate tone to the calls for employees to return to the office or face the consequences.

Read more about why this is happening - full article and recordings from RTE on the subject here:

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0904/1402957-offices-workers-bosses-managers-executives-psychology/

Source: RTE.ie

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