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A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72 percent suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs.
The damage is strategic, not merely emotional. Baylor University’s reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile.
It’s not like there was a social contract before that. Management always resort to whatever they can get away with, and unless the workers organize to resist them, they can get away with a lot.
The social contract was “pay us properly and we won’t burn your factory down”. Our compromise was unions. But yes, we lost that contract some 40 years ago and our pitchforks grew dull, distracted by the usual culture wars brought out to divide the working class.
Bread & Circuses distract us from properly maintaining our pitchforks, torches, and other tools.
That reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.