Every shop demand a return to ass-in-seat mentality must lose my resume now.
I've also seen companies do this passive-aggressively to push away talent in hopes they won't have to layoff as many people and pay severance. They're just footgunning themselves by pushing away said and future talent who won't want to work for them. Hard pass.
I imagine the market will sort it out over the next few years. The Great Resignation demonstrated that employers aren't afraid of turnover, so all there is left is which companies do better.
Remote with less culture but with a broader selection of and cheaper talent?
Or in office with its collaborative benefits and a large portion of the workforce refusing to work for you?
Let’s not forget the elephant in the room: office space. When leases come up for renewal remote-heavy companies may be looking to seriously downsize. This sort of widespread cost savings could go a long way toward making remote-heavy companies more competitive.
I don't agree, at least in general. There are companies who leverage their workforce to get tax benefits and other benefits from countries, regions, and even municipalities. They leverage their worker's pay and disposable income, and the way they can manipulate their workers on where to pay taxes and where to spend their salary, to get benefits and privileged treatment from government and state institutions.
Your lease means nothing if your tax break is greater than your office rent.
> Oh no; less office culture. I might have to partake in local community culture!
Office culture sometimes doesn't exist beyond convoluted PR stunts from HR. Fake smiling while congregating in front of the company's corporate logo is not culture.
I've also seen companies do this passive-aggressively to push away talent in hopes they won't have to layoff as many people and pay severance. They're just footgunning themselves by pushing away said and future talent who won't want to work for them. Hard pass.