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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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    5·
    3 days ago

    That’s the way it used to be, all the desks just lined up in room, the supervisor at the front facing them, like a classroom. They were all men, too, unless typing was involved.

    The Sociopathic Oligarchs want to take us back to the olden days of routine employee abuse.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’ve seen many stupid layouts, and one of them was a contract for GE. I was only there for less than a week (my company was trying to place me there).

      The “cubicles” were all in this room about the size of a football field, it seemed. None of the walls were higher than just above desk-level. Very bright and harsh fluorescent lighting. Bathrooms that didn’t have toilet paper on rolls, but instead these folded squares.

      I have no idea how people could do even basic IT maintenance work in such an environment. I’ve worked in lots of places, with lots of various layouts - cubes, offices, open layouts. But this seemed designed to punish and infuriate anyone trying to do knowledge work.