I'll share what some of you don't want to hear or must have jobs that are outside of what I'm going to share.
-Mrs and I went back to Univ of Miami after a 6-7 year stint at a smaller non-profit in Palm Beach. Even thru the pandemic, the Palm Beach spot, they were in the office a lot and the President was very involved with staff, didn't allow for more than a 3-2 ratio of in office and at home, always wanting to get folks back fully in the office and felt strongly that production suffered. I'm talking after the vaccines.
-FF to the new/old spot and the first thing we encountered were staff that we'll say are below the 6 figure level-Admin Asst in one form or another, lot of fancy titles these days that mean the same thing...but they were always sick and stayed home often. There were very few folks who regularly showed up and the work/production was bad, my wife and I gave them every opp to show their true colors. Emails not answered for 24-48+ hours on some of the most simplest of tasks, unacceptable. Don't answer their phones when they are called as they work out of their home, unacceptable. Anything that differs from what unfolds in the office is unacceptable. Mrs and I work 3 days a week out of the home office and I can promise you that we don't stop from about sun up to sun down in the evening. All calls and emails are handled promptly
-We have had to move some folks on their way, luckily the ones we had the most issues with decided to voluntarily quit! It doesn't get much easier than watching someone with a terrible work ethic and attitude quit...you don't even have to offer unemployment or deal with any potential HR issues, it's great.
-Our experience has been most folks who stayed home thru the pandemic and never returned to full time back in the office, they cause disruptions when they are being forced back into the office, they tend to be terrible workers in terms of production.
-It sounds arrogant to read posts of people that want to just up and quit because they are required to work in the office. I doubt many of you actually work harder at home or get more done to whoever owns or runs your company as the CEO. To me it's like the FBGs who proclaim great things charging up $5,000-$10,000 a month on high interest credit cards because they pay it all off and get free limos and Gulfstreams to take them around everywhere so they can pick up free groceries but the reality is a lot of this country is in debt and credit cards should not be in the hands of most average Americans.
If you could trust humans then you wouldn't need police, that's the truth. Not everyone follows the law or follows the rules without some consequences in place to deter them.
People need to be held accountable, that's a lot harder to measure when they are just sitting at home on Zoom calls and not even showing their face, just a background so they can sit in their jammies all day.
Humans tend to do the wrong thing when they have access/a choice in making bad decisions and if you think every person working at home is more productive then they would be under the thumb of their boss at a traditional office or cubical then I think you are fooling yourselves.
If you have a cushy WFH and feel like you've made it in this world and can do 8 hours of work in the actual 1-2 hours you now sit at a desk or couch at home, be my guest.
But to act as though production is better with everyone working from home is a bunch of nonsense
Anyone who is actually witnessing it first hand and has to manage/lead teams can see it.
And if you must know, the University seems to be pushing people back into their home office, they are sizing down work spaces for each department and team, where we might go 2 days a week down to Miami, they want us maybe 1 day every other week for the bigger meetings.
So in the end I'm telling you it's more productive working in an office with good leadership vs working from a home office and yet...
We're going to be working from home even more than we already are now, SMH
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