![]() She couldn’t imagine building a long-term relationship with an employee she had never met in person. Before the pandemic she hired an engineer who lived in Texas and insisted that he move to New York for the job. Some executives hope that if they can get their employees to spend some time in the office, the workers will realize that they liked it more than they remembered.Ĭhristina Ross, chief executive of Cube, a software company with 75 employees, used to consider herself a proud office acolyte. “Let’s learn from what’s working and put in place guardrails if we think things aren’t.” “What we’ve decided to do is say, ‘What is working?’” said Joan Burke, head of human resources at DocuSign, which postponed four return-to-office dates before deciding not to require attendance for now. Now some companies are expecting people back but have lost the leverage to enforce that because of the constant flux in deadlines. Workers got extra time at home, and extra leeway to test the rigidity of their bosses’ plans. Business leaders accepted the uncertainty, hoping it was temporary. Executives told workers to come back to the office, then delayed their plans as Covid cases continued to spike. plans have unfolded like a giant game of chicken. “We don’t believe you have to be in the office 40 hours a week, and we also don’t believe you can be all virtual.” “Being prescriptive creates all kind of bureaucracy, because then you have to get management layers involved and it just becomes very rule-based,” said Sasan Goodarzi, the chief executive of Intuit. Job Titles: “Head of team anywhere.” “Vice president of flexible work.” The rise of remote work has given way to new positions, whose lasting power has yet to be tested.Quiet Quitting: This new approach to setting professional boundaries popularized by TikTok might be the solution for those not ready to make a grand exit from their job.To do so, they are sharing their feelings on Twitter, in memoirs and in all-staff meetings. Emotions on Display: Executives increasingly want employees to know that they’re not just empty suits.Productivity: As executives tighten their return-to-office policies, workers are finding their days filled with more interruption they are nostalgic for the silence and focus they had at home.There’s McKinsey, which intends at some point to set clearer norms around office attendance, with the goal of ensuring that people get the value of in-person collaboration, but for now is allowing individuals to set agreements with their clients and managers, according to its head of human resources.Ī New Office Culture The past two years have changed the way we work in profound ways. There’s Apple, which recently suspended its requirement that employees return to the office at least three days a week. “Even some of the major companies that came out and said ‘We want our employees in the office five days a week’ are starting to backtrack.” “What is abundantly clear is that there are fewer and fewer companies expecting their employees to be in the office five days a week,” said Brian Kropp, vice president in Gartner’s human resources practice. ![]() In a January survey, the Pew Research Center found that 60 percent of workers whose jobs can be done at home wanted to work remotely most or all of the time. But those who were able to work remotely got attached to the flexibility. The vast majority of Americans, particularly those in the service sector and low-wage jobs, have been working in person throughout the pandemic. ![]() Office occupancy across the country plateaued last month at around 43 percent as Covid cases spiked again, according to data from Kastle, a security firm. When asked in early 2021 about the share of their workers who would be back in the office five days a week in the future, executives said 50 percent now that percentage is down to 20, according to a recent survey from the consulting firm Gartner. Optimism about return-to-office plans, across industries and cities, is slowly abating. But the second we started going, we realized how silly it was,” he added. “As much as we grumbled about going back to work, we all understood that it was going to happen. In other words, his team realized that there was no all-powerful being forcing their attendance there was only a man behind a curtain (or Zoom screen). ![]()
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