Return To Office
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Gladwell: Blanket return-to-office mandates for independent roles are unfair
“The mistake I made was, there's a class of person for whom, if I'm a mom, single mom with two kids in school, babysitting issues, whatever, and I'm doing a job where I'm actually really good at it, and I don't need that kind of social interaction, then just th…”
Perel: RTO mandates fail because returning employees are 'socially atrophied'
“People should come back to work in person, maybe not five days, but that's not enough. Because the people who are coming back are socially atrophied. The people that are coming back have been de-socialized and have lost skills and the younger ones never develo…”
Garrett: Return to office has become a scapegoat for struggling tech companies
“Return to office has become like a scapegoat for businesses. Through a down cycle to basically blame everything that's going wrong. Like effectively, like if you're a bad business and things are going wrong, return offices scapegoat. If you're a good business …”
Lemkin: RTO mandates are about supervising mid performers, not collaboration
“It doesn't, you don't need to return to office for high performers. The best people will get it done. They'll get it done from Antarctica or they'll get it done in the office, but the mid performers just don't work from home, right? They barely work. And so th…”
Farquhar: Return-to-office mandates are as arbitrary as dictating pen color
“Some people who are forcing a back to office mandate, in many cases that's like telling people they need to use a blue pen instead of a black pen. Does it matter which pen you use if the output's the same? Does it matter where you are doing the work if the out…”