As Companies Force Returning To The Office, Is Quiet Quitting Over?

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Are Employees Losing The War On Remote Work? As More Companies End Remote Work, Quiet Quitting may be over. In this video I break down what companies are doing to force a return to the office, and what you can do about it.
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@ALifeAfterLayoff Год назад

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@rejectionistmanifesto8836 Год назад

They can keep threatening since last 1.5 years but Millenials and Gen Z just quit. The sheer amount of employee turnover these days are unbelievable and many of us older workers in GenX are getting tired and will quit from burn out as we have to take on so much workload with worker shortages. Already the Baby boomers are retiring in the millions each year.

@MichelleHenleyJohnson Год назад

As someone with more than 20 years of experience in my field (copywriter), I spent most of my career commuting to an office miles away. I did this until 2015, when I decided to begin freelancing and doing contract work. I can’t imagine going back to an office and feel I paid my dues. I personally think most people are more productive at home but I guess in am biased. I think this is all a power play on the employers part.

@choufreakyc Год назад

I worked as a copywriter while living and studying in Taiwan and working at an English radio station, and I have been trying to get back into copywriting as a job here in the U.S. I've been working as a technical writer instead. Do you have any advice on how to get one's foot in the door at a company or find clients?

@therosses5 Год назад

I commuted at least 30 minutes and for about 10 years an hour and 30 minutes. I've been remote since 2004. I don't miss getting interrupted every time someone walked by cubicle ONE bit.

@MTimWeaver Год назад

@@choufreakyc Most of the tech writing jobs I've seen pay WAY better than standard copywriting positions. Of course, if you don't like tech writing, then the pay differential may not be as important.

@josephj6521 Год назад

You’re not biased. Our team is more productive from home although managers want to enforce more in office days. They get less out of us in the office. They’re truly pathetic these managers.

@choufreakyc Год назад

@@MTimWeaver Yeah, I know tech writing pays more depending where you are, but I've been SEVERELY under paid at my current job for what I do. I'm doing the job of 2-3 people and have been for nearly five years and I'm finally making over $65k, which is not great for tech writers in WA state. It was my first job upon returning home to the U.S. so I took what I could get. I don't like tech writing unless it's in a field I enjoy (currently in broadband telecom/electric stuff, which isn't that interesting to me).

@Augfordpdoggie Год назад

Businesses want us to go back to the office so they can make us miserable. They recognize how happy we are, waking up in peace and getting some work done.

@purple7vi0let Год назад

you said it👏👏👏👏👏👏

@brendaechols5929 Год назад

Yep. Our misery and how they talk down to their staff, is what feeds their ego.

@langhamp8912 Год назад

It's more than the cost of commuting is born by the workers. If the cost of commuting to workers was minor then I doubt many workers would be complaining.

@eXtremeFX2010 Год назад

They want their slaves back.

@ladonna1902 Год назад

Exactly! They want their workers back in the office so they can micro manage their employees. Even when the pandemic first broke out, there were managers that were very resistant to remote work. They were insisting that we can space ourselves 6 feet apart right here in the office. They were saying how will we know what our workers are doing? There was even one manager that was driving around to the homes of his staff making unannounced visits. He was checking up on them to see if they were actually working.

@leotardbanshee Год назад

There is a percentage of workers who make other people do their work for them and they are the same people who want you to go back into the office. It's harder to shirk your responsibilities onto someone else when you have the email and paper trails of working from home.

@xanderdumas5938 Год назад

Big facts

@josiah5776 Год назад

Very well stated. It's mostly the socializers who produce little of value who are championing the return. Them and the control freaks in managment.

@sparkplug5392 Год назад

captured in a nutshell

@coston1986 Год назад

Soooo true!

@rickb06 5 месяцев назад

This perfectly describes what CEOs do, they delegate everything, they do very little other than occasionally show up, their assistants or other lower c-suites get to be a portion of the CEO, but not the pay.

@richardarmstrong3826 Год назад

In office mandates make it impossible for a disabled person like me who can only work from home due to their disability to be considered for work.

@leotardbanshee Год назад

It is by design.

@tracy3418 Год назад

Exactly! My HR is fighting with my doctors because they want me to return to the office. It's not always just a personal preference. WFH should be considered a reasonable accommodation for those with disabilities.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Год назад

@@tracy3418Wait, so you can do you job from home, you're disabled, and yet your HR is wasting time fighting your doctors on why you need to return to the office? What the hell happened to accomodations for those with diabilities? You have accomodations, it's ridiculous that they're trying to rip that away from you.

@tracy3418 Год назад

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley yes! I've been doing my job from home for years now. They're trying to push for everyone to come back to the office. My doctors have been filled out all the paperwork for reasonable accommodation 4 months ago. Then HR comes up with more questions, pushing back on every single thing. They're still fighting it. Wasting their time and mine.

@007leet Год назад

This whole movement does not make sense anymore. The internet was supposed to make life easier and these weirdo boomers want to make things way harder than it should be. Unless you're in a client facing role, in building sciences, or in a manufacturing role, there is no reason to go to the office.

@DanielSong39 Год назад

Sunk cost fallacy Abuse of power It makes a lot of sense to me

@ryanguy6789 Год назад

I won't do it. I had a remote job and eventually found my way to another because it was my strict focus. It can be done and it is priceless - life is just so much better WFH every single day, no comparison.

@cpK054L Год назад

@@DanielSong39jews. Makes more sense. I don't even work anymore and I'm better off for it

@StriderBillman Год назад

Client-facing meetings can always be done with an hourly temporary office, such as one from Regus or an office trailer from WillScot.

@kevinmach730 Год назад

Boomers are retired, bro. Many businesses are being run by millenials now, like my last company. We were on the road as IT techs most of the day anyway, but he wanted us all in the office.

@jahanas22 Год назад

It just shows that a lot of companies really don't care for the well-being of their employees. I don't see the point of going into an office when my collaboration can be done just as easily remotely.

@JaBlanche Год назад

It has always been about the money. They had to let employees work from home or they would have had no company, so they were so caring and employee focussed. It's always about the bottom line.

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

Absolutely. People going into the office are still joining meetings via teams/zoom/whatever, so really - what's the point?

@qatarworldcupwinnermessi 5 месяцев назад

It's not about collaboration. It's about control.

@froukehermens2176 5 месяцев назад

Covid is still causing long Covid, so it is also a risk to employee's health. Particularly the effects of Covid on the brain are scary. Who wants to end up with brain fog?

@timgibney5590 Месяц назад

The company is there for the shareholders. Not YOU. If it is a private company it is there for the customers again NOT YOU. You are a cost. The shareholders and customers are a revenue. Unfortunately, unless there is a good job market and you have skills that are harder to find the employer dictates how and when you work as they can replace you. This also includes someone in India if it can be done remotely or automated.

@jotham123 Год назад

Call it acting your wage and having boundaries, not quite quitting.

@howtosober Год назад

Yes! This whole "quiet quitting" term doesn't make any sense. All it is is literally just doing your job. If you go into a job and *just do the job* from the beginning, then there's nobody to melt down and say you're "quiet quitting" later on because you haven't given them your entire life. Screw corporations' sense of entitlement to your entire life, your thoughts, your social media, and all the other boundary violations they commit. Corporations only do this because we continue to let them get away with it. Labor productivity is at an all-time high compared to 1970, yet we're still getting 1970s wages. They have no right to demand even MORE productivity when their compensation is four decades behind. This guy is wrong that your boss is always going to win the battle. That's only if you're doing it by yourself. This is why *worker solidarity* is so crucial. Join the nationwide labor rights movement at workersstrikeback.org. Don't commute for a job that can be done from home unless your company is willing to pay a huge premium for the inconvenience and your cost of living increases. Unionize your workplace or join your labor union. Discuss and compare your salary with ALL your co-workers no matter what your job says. Take 100% of your PTO. Arrive and leave on time. Don't attend non-mandatory work events or work for free outside normal work hours. Support strikes, work stoppages, and other labor actions. Never cross a picket line or take a job if you're being hired as a scab to replace a striking worker. *This is what we all need to normalize in solidarity with one another. Worker power = economic power. Class struggle is the only remedy.* No matter how much money and power the 1% controls, we are the 99% and we're bigger. And always remember this: "Power concedes NOTHING without a demand. It never has and it never will." -Frederick Douglass

@mintywebb Год назад

Yet in Europe they were found to be far more productive. Someone is lying somewhere.

@jaredbills72 Год назад

Funny enough I have co workers who say that Europe "doesn't believe in remote work. They have a separation of work and home life." Tell us about your experience. I'd be interested to know it that statement is true or false.

@ctjmaughs Год назад

They have said that for a while.

@mintywebb Год назад

@@jaredbills72 I live in Europe, and yes we do have far more separation of work and home life. However there is also a great deal of research that says that homeworking is far more efficient with people starting earlier and finishing later due to lack of commutes.

@mintywebb Год назад

@@jaredbills72 oh and homeworking is now quite common.

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

@@mintywebb - there's studies in the US that say the same; you'll find most organizations publishing studies that are anti-WFO tend to be business journals or some other pro-business / anti-labor organization.

@hahamasala Год назад

It's micro management winning out at companies, pure and simple. Collaboration doesn't happen that often at work. Special meetings can be held. And a lot of these companies pretend to be green while forcing people to commute.

@rejectionistmanifesto8836 Год назад

No this just leads to even more massive worker turnover as younger workers keep quitting so much since 2020.

@TheShredtube 2 месяца назад

Exactly! CEOs want spontaneous collaboration because it makes them feel better. It hasn't led to much growth or improvement

@planetag310 Месяц назад

Yeah, they're making us go back to the office and people aren't collaborating anymore than they would do by phone or Zoom. Instead, they're chit-chatting all day about stuff unrelated to work and I have to listen to that crap.

@JoeJoeCruz Год назад

I left my 1st job as an analyst when my corporation forced us back to the office in the Central Business District despite me and my coworkers beating the weekly quota from the comfort of our homes during the quarantine era. My monthly salary back then was 25k Philippine pesos while the most affordable apartment near the office was 20k a month. I immediately left that corpo and sticked with another WFH job. No way am I gonna be that corpo slave who spends all of his wages on an apartment.

@4runner4summer 10 месяцев назад

Good job brother

@markb8978 Год назад

Working remote spares me from commuting, hassle with parking, interruptions from CO workers, filthy rest rooms, and the atomic sneezers. My manager supports remote and said everyone's production has improved. Not everyone needs to brainstorm with CO workers.

@bernsfindsandmore7636 Год назад

That is a great Manager and one that seems to be open instead of being closed minded. These are the types of Managers that will be still employed in the future when things change.

@Jules.Gonzalez Год назад

I agree!!

@madmack2198 Год назад

@@bernsfindsandmore7636 another point.... if the manager needs people in the OFFICE most likely you have a MICRO MANAGER this is a TOXIC clown who needs to have a CIRCUS at their fingertips.. one GREAT example UMIT division there is FILLED with RINGMASTERS... who need to call your desk ... let it ring 2 times THEN call your Cell phone let it ring two times THEN IM you on whatsapp THEN IM you on MS TEAMS THEN SKYPE you and THEN SMS you.... AND FINALLY Chase AFTER YOU AND COMPLAIN "why did you not answer me!!!! all this within four minutes"... so whatever you do dont go to the bathroom dont get a drink of WATER do not be on another call because YOU ARE WRONG!!!... you SIT AT YOUR DESK because YOU ARE NOT LATIN and DO NOT BELONG IN UM!!!! ... these assclowns excel at racial profiling AND hostile ( in office ) ass in seat operation...

@Matrix803 Год назад

Excellent point about the bathrooms. Also, since I started working remotely at my current front-end developer job, I've actually started taking 30-minute breaks rather than 1-hour breaks-- because 30 minutes is really all I need when I'm at the house. So, I'm absolutely more productive at home than at the office.

@izamalcadosa2951 Год назад

You forgot: The Atomic Burpers after drinking or eating something, The Atomic Farters that let it rip without a care, The Company Clown, The Company Snitch, The Brown-Nosers, The Gossipers, The Nosy Bastards, The Loud-Talking/Loud-Laughing Females, The Inept Employees, The Lazy, Inept Managers and several other unsavory characters that make up your typical office or offices within your onsite, work space! YES!! I've had all of these co-workers within IT and other industries I worked in over 20+ years in the Corporate World!!

@chiplangowski3298 Год назад

The one factor that I did not hear mentioned in the video is that many companies get huge tax breaks for having employees working in the downtown, central business district. The cities are threatening to take away the tax breaks if the workers do not return.

@ALifeAfterLayoff Год назад

Good point!

@theotherotherjenny Год назад

Lots of cities have additional regs for housing -- converting from commercial to residential wouldn't be profitable.

@cultmecca Год назад

@@FirstnameLastnames No thats stupid. If they do that, then where will all the desperate workers that low-paying employers rely on as a cheap labor force come from? *sarcasm*

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

I'll say it again - any company forcing RTO has a financial motive.

@purple7vi0let Год назад

I had to quit my job at the end of July unfortunately, because the company was demanding that employees commute to the office 3 days a week, non-negotiatory -- however, I have 2 young children and the childcare costs would be astronomic (I'm in Canada as well, so that tells you right there how that much more expensive it is)... it's sad. I pray to find a fully remote job soon. It doesn't make sense for employees to spend hours commuting while getting paid the same amount of pay, not considering the record-high inflation we're living through right now.

@karenburrill6816 Год назад

Can someone please explain how you are able to watch your kids while you're trying to complete your workday at home?

@purple7vi0let Год назад

@@karenburrill6816 it’s a juggling act… at times they would watch cartoons, or play together, colour/practice reading, etc. Work-from-home Moms do it all.

@viliusr.8792 Год назад

@@karenburrill6816 exactly, work from home while watching your kids and complain to boss about workload... i worked at company that had 4 staff working from home and its obvious who is working fully and who is working part time

@karenburrill6816 Год назад

@viliusr.8792 That's what I was wondering about. I remember how active and lively my 2 kids were. I can't imagine trying to work from home and be productive. My job OR my kids well being would have suffered.

@viliusr.8792 Год назад

@@karenburrill6816 in all normall business productivity is number one priority, however safe non-profit jobs remotely always work perfectly well as salary is guarantead regardless of the ammount of work being done

@6382steve Год назад

Commuting is expensive. The sudden shift to remote work in 2020, was like getting a substantial pay raise, and the employer didn’t even have to pay for it. No wonder people quit when forced back in the office. They could take a lower paying remote job and still end up ahead because of all the additional costs associated with commuting, plus getting all those unpaid commute hours back.

@madameclark3453 Год назад

My career is in construction. I’ve had to drive to all my projects, there is no way out of it. I’ve wasted a lot of time stuck in traffic.

@rockstarofredondo Год назад

Imagine all the money they saved on other little things too, like eating out during break or wear and tear on their vehicles. It makes no sense at all for an employee to return to the office.

@niggaflies Год назад

Companies are lobbying to return because of commercial real estate holdings! It has nothing to do with productivity it’s about bailing out holders of commercial real estate aka big companies.

@elizabethbaxter54 Год назад

yess

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

So. Much. This. And if I hear one more BS "the culture!" line I'm going to roll my eyes so hard they'll pop out. It's a job, not high-school - I don't need to join extracurricular clubs to get my job done.

@niggaflies Год назад

@@RandomFandomDragon Exactly!

@jackcarraway4707 Год назад

People can quiet quit in an office too.

@cpK054L Год назад

The eternal toilet pooping phenomena of 2025

@RobertLeeAtYT Год назад

Sure. The layoff won't be so quiet though.

@jackcarraway4707 Год назад

@@RobertLeeAtYT ok boomer

@sparkplug5392 Год назад

@@jackcarraway4707 🤣

@amastr-fc5kw Год назад

I disagree with the remote war being lost. I work for a big tech company and they have a similar mandate. They are having a very difficult time with getting people back to the office. Office are still empty as we speak. They can’t fire all of us at the same time lol

@bd9057 Год назад

They'll just fire people slowly over time. Kind of what they're doing at my company.

@cpK054L Год назад

That's where you're wrong. 80% of employees are literally useless

@srobeck77 Год назад

@@cpK054L and this is where your "wrong". If they are useless, you fire them. Problem solved says Capt Obvious

@howtosober Год назад

This whole "quiet quitting" term doesn't make any sense. All it is is literally just doing your job. If you go into a job and *just do the job* from the beginning, then there's nobody to melt down and say you're "quiet quitting" later on because you haven't given them your entire life. Screw corporations' sense of entitlement to your entire life, your thoughts, your social media, and all the other boundary violations they commit. Corporations only do this because we continue to let them get away with it. Labor productivity is at an all-time high compared to 1970, yet we're still getting 1970s wages. They have no right to demand even MORE productivity when their compensation is four decades behind. This guy is wrong that your boss is always going to win the battle. That's only if you're doing it by yourself. This is why *worker solidarity* is so crucial. Join the nationwide labor rights movement at workersstrikeback.org. Don't commute for a job that can be done from home unless your company is willing to pay a huge premium for the inconvenience and your cost of living increases. Unionize your workplace or join your labor union. Discuss and compare your salary with ALL your co-workers no matter what your job says. Take 100% of your PTO. Arrive and leave on time. Don't attend non-mandatory work events or work for free outside normal work hours. Support strikes, work stoppages, and other labor actions. Never cross a picket line or take a job if you're being hired as a scab to replace a striking worker. *This is what we all need to normalize in solidarity with one another. Worker power = economic power. Class struggle is the only remedy.* No matter how much money and power the 1% controls, we are the 99% and we're bigger. And always remember this: "Power concedes NOTHING without a demand. It never has and it never will." -Frederick Douglass

@RobertLeeAtYT Год назад

You're kidding? Just wait till the next recession. Go ahead, stay home. Just don't expect a paycheck.

@chuckchan4127 Год назад

Employers will win, but not in the way you'd expect: Remote work will become a competitive tool. If an employer values remote work, both for increased productivity and attracting superior talent, they will embrace it. Likewise, employees will eventually change the culture to treat remote work like any other benefit. I think if Employers think remote working will disappear then they're delusional. But I doubt we'll also hit the same levels as during Covid unless another disaster of such a scales occurs.

@Tony_Toni_Tone Год назад

I agree with you. I think it's gonna play out like when Ford implemented the 40 hour work week

@jasantana Год назад

It depends, people who believe remote-only that's what most people in my current company assume until they announced hybrid and they dragged back a good portion of those people who relocated back to the office. If it becomes a collective decisions for many companies to force in office like they did with hybrid they will win, the companies that always been remote-first (remote-only) or went remote-first (sold their offices) are going to stay remote. Like I been telling people with the right condition (economic hardship) if the collective employer can pull off back to office and even 5 day work week, they will and you will have a small sample size of companies to choose from when they're an excess of people who needs jobs. If you want people to push against the companies you need the majority onboard; otherwise, places like Amazon will get rid of the small few who don't want return to office.

@chuckchan4127 Год назад

@jasantana You're not wrong, but at the end of the day companies want to make money. If an employer sees value in letting their workers go remote to make more money, they will do it.

@middleagebrotips3454 Год назад

Federal employees are working from home in San Francisco due to homelessness and crime, maybe that's one way

@srobeck77 Год назад

@@middleagebrotips3454 thats a democrate created problem from encouraging gov bribes to not work, needle exchange programs, etc

@HeathHarris Год назад

In the IT world, it seems to me that some management are becoming obsolete and they need to find purpose.

@pramod8838 Год назад

They need to go home and let the next generation take over. Bunch of old fools

@looseycanon Год назад

Employees will win this one. Demographics speak for them selves. Not to mention, that some companies have been remote first since the beginning and some have shifted that way, meaning there are more companies now, that are willing to accept remote work. It's only a matter of time and it will change with changing of generations. Millenials are used to working on computers and know, that those can work from anywhere, meaning, even as managers, they will be more accepting of remote work. As Boomers die out, office will cease to be as important.

@ryanguy6789 Год назад

I think this is a good point. Young people get it - they want remote. It is these old geezers who are only used to the old way who are still in charge at many of these places, but they will retire and Gen x and Millennials will eventually be making these decisions. It's not to say all old people are like that (and I applaud the ones who are not), but many are.

@kimr1806 Год назад

Yet all these companies have been moving work offshores so you still have to schedule a zoom meeting…or 1 person couldn’t show up that day bc they have an appt…so you’re never sitting around table to collaborate anyway…

@JeiBurke Год назад

“The guy writing your paychecks will win” If have more than one person writing my paychecks because I don’t put all my eggs in one basket I win. Never allow anyone to have that much power over you, if anyone “demanded” I go into an office I will quit on the spot.

@howtosober Год назад

@campandcook3118 Год назад

same here, you need to handle your job skills like a business. I KNOW that a company will need 9-12 months to replace me. i worked freelance before and still network with other freelancers i worked with before, occasionally subcontract a few hours for them or get referred small projects from them. I also have a hobby that also occasionally is a side business and invest my money in rental units instead of wasting it on car payments. Leaving a company just mean a status change to freelancer. feels just like taking some unpayed time off, other incomes leave me time to take some courses and relax while new recruiter offers come in. Compared to others, it now pays of to spend more time in university than on parties and investing money instead of wasting it.

@hahamasala Год назад

Companies that trust their employees enough to let them work fully remote attract better talent and are probably more likely to retain their employees. Companies who don't will have more turnover and higher indirect costs from having to recruit, hire and train new employees with a learning curve.

@MrTutiplengo Год назад

I've been on a new job which is mostly remote, though we do need to report to HQ every once in a while. Last time I went to the office, there was all this incessant chatter around me, plus the smell of coffee which I hate, the A/C which was much colder than I'm used to. How is that sort of stuff supposed to make me more productive?

@masteryoda9044 Год назад

Stay strong my fellow rats. If we are united we can win this 💪

@cpK054L Год назад

That's assuming you all exot the Petrodollar system, which I doubt

@howtosober Год назад

@josiah5776 Год назад

I'd love to know what they use to measure "productivity" and what their measure is. I'm certain the metrics are doctored. So glad I retired from the Corporate Circus last year. Having worked corporate for almost 30 years, my advice to young people is to do everything and anything you can to stay out of the corporate world.

@lrose736 Год назад

Couldn't agree more! I have 15yrs in myself, last 8 we've always had an option for remote work. Like many, I've been full time remote since 2020 and just took on a new role a few months ago that "was" recently downgraded to hybrid because I live within a 50 mile range of a downtown office. Anyone over that is exempt! I have no interest for office politics and the usual water cooler BS about who is doing what and did you hear about so and so (hard pass)! It's time to move on....

@HilaryRob Год назад

The red flags that this “study” is bogus and can’t be generalized to demonstrate American remote workers aren’t being as productive are 1. It’s 1 study and the parameters aren’t known (how long?, did the remote group have reliable, consistent connectivity?, how experienced was the remote group with working remote?) 2. It’s a study of Indian data entry workers, and they are acting like they found the smoking gun against wfh.

@josiah5776 Год назад

@@HilaryRob Does not surprise me in the least. Cherry pick small data points that support return to work and ignore the rest. Corporate leadership is thrashing about almost with almost cult-like control to all their people confined to one locations.

@darylligon2701 Год назад

For every supposed study that says workers are more productive at the office there is a study that says work from home workers are more productive. Unfortunately, some researchers aren’t ethical and are probably in the pockets of banks and commercial real estate companies.

@darylligon2701 Год назад

@@HilaryRob They fail to mention all the studies that say work from home workers are more productive. It’s crap research. Any researcher worth their salt has robust evidence for and against and stays neutral as much as possible.

@StriderBillman Год назад

Office leases eventually expire! When that's happening, the company must make a decision about whether to cut costs by reducing office space and embracing remote work vs. renewing for another year or so and forcing RTO (return to office). For remote workers, it may be a matter of just holding out long enough. Meanwhile, there are dedicated remote job boards, such as SkipTheDrive, NoDesk, and Flex Jobs.

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

I didn't know about those job boards, thank you! WFH is the hill I'm willing to die on, so I am trying to plan for the worst.

@jackcarraway4707 Год назад

I've been quiet quitting since high school which was a decade ago; I only took the easiest classes and I ended up just fine. My life doesn't revolve around work.

@Plxlinixy Год назад

The best way the smarter companies should be operating is that if they want them back at the office, pay them more to be at the office. But no that's too obvious.

@MichelleHenleyJohnson Год назад

Exactly! Pay me more for the wear and tear on my car and the cost of gas. Keep your fruit baskets and free snacks.

@srobeck77 Год назад

not worth the extra pay. remote work is whats up

@asadb1990 Год назад

In the middle east its common for the employer to pay for car or transport to and from office. Some even pay for the rent. But the thing is these benefits were more for those with western passports from eu, us, Canada, etc.

@cpK054L Год назад

@@Jedimack7 because a lot of them will take it because NO MARKETABLE SKILL. aka degree-mill Indians

@headlibrarian1996 Год назад

They’re already not paying for electricity and, often as not, internet if you’re remote. My company just canceled its Internet reimbursements.

@sylwiazientek5182 Год назад

Whenever I go to the office, I can never get any work done, as people chit-chat, make noise, and move between desks all the time, and I cannot focus! I end up going home and catching up on work in my free time.

@KungFuChess Год назад

This is all about the office real estate these companies have tied up. There are many companies especially startups that operate remote only.

@Legendsingray Год назад

As someone who wrote several papers about remote work in grad school pre-Covid, I found the research overwhelmingly pro-remote, especially with productivity, even when weighing things like "in-office networking." Although as an interesting point, most research found that companies with a mix of in-office and remote, remote workers were often passed over for promotions. I'd be curious to know the undertones of the lower productivity now. My guess is there's an underpinning that is causing it if one looks at the reasons why. I also walked away from a 21-year career after we received our RTO (after two years of saying this was the launch pad into the future and we were never going back to the office) and landed a remote first position that paid better as well. Some employers may win the short-term battle, but the employees will win the war. When stockholders ask the boardrooms why the company is losing market share and productivity to these nimble, remote-first employers, the RTO will be to blame.

@Private-GtngxNMBKvYzXyPq Год назад

^^ This. ^^

@BPuddles Год назад

I was way more efficient when fully remote. Being forced in 2 days a week we all sit in our cubes with little engagement but way more interruptions. I think type of work is important when they conduct these studies. It’s an absolute waste of time, gas, miles on the car etc. when I could actually be working.

@monterreymxisfun3627 Год назад

I cut my expenses to $3K per month by moving to a small town. I would cut my pay rate to $3K per month (a 70% pay cut) as a senior software engineer before moving back to a big city and commuting. Collaboration is a code word for shoulder surfing and micro-managing. It may reach a point where hiring someone in Calcutta, Ohio is cheaper than hiring someone in Calcutta, India.

@kapp651 Год назад

Small town = overseas?

@ciaranirvine Год назад

The people who want "everyone back to the office" are the bluffers and spoofers who talk a good game but never actually deliver anything; abusive micromanagers; and commercial property fund managers. I'm 50 with decades of IT experience and I'll simply quit rather than kowtow to assholes with toxic agendas. I think the usual talking points of "missing out on social office culture" or it "harming your promotion prospects" are absolute BS and again just a sign of bad toxic mismanagement and poor corporate culture

@Private-GtngxNMBKvYzXyPq Год назад

^^ This. ^^

@SkegeeAce Год назад

I'm an accountant. 75% of my work is independent and requires concentration. I really hate collaborative work spaces/open work space because the distractions are huge. I absolutely loved being able to be remote (or coming into the office when I know most of everyone else is remote like on Fridays). It doesn't make sense to blanket order people back into the office.

@Al-rn5qy Год назад

The employees will win this one-not the employers. Employers may get a short term victory, however, long term it is the employees that will come out on top here. It's just like the Industrial Revolution, we see who lost that battle. Remote work is the way of the future and we're moving deeper into the 21st century now, so those employers that don't fall in line, will be left behind! IMO😉👍

@cpK054L Год назад

You're looking at this wrong. Nearly 490 of the fortune 500 are zombie companies. It doesn't matter if employees win, when the US dollar collapses, you ALL lose and the CEOs and fat cats already have assets, so that doesn't matter.

@shuki1 Год назад

Not really. Ultimately, the employer decides organizational culture. Low unemployment until now mid2023 gives employees the false sense of security that they are entitled and can make the demands from employers, but as more companies do layoffs and get more efficient, and looking for a new job takes many more months than in recent past, employees will not be in the position to make the same demands.

@ItsAllCulturalMarxism Год назад

@shuki1 if the best employees only accept remote then that's what employers will offer.

@cpK054L Год назад

@chriswhite714 and that is a fatal way to look at it as Georgians, Jordanians, Eastern Europeans code far better and are significantly cheaper than their American counterparts is how we all get unemployed

@shuki1 Год назад

@@ItsAllCulturalMarxismeach employer makes a cost benefit decision. Not all employers need 'best'. And certainly, once they accept full remote employees, then offshore people who are cheaper and also not buying into 'quiet quitting' BS will take the jobs instead of someone of worked in Sillicon Valley and now wants to remote work in Wisconsin. My company started hiring in India two decades ago. The offices in India are now half the company. Low performers are easily replaced, the pool of graduates is humongous.

@Justhereforthestay Год назад

I didn't just quit commuting during the pandemic; I decided to work for myself. If anything, the pandemic opened my eyes to how toxic employers are and why we should do what is best for us. I took a massive pay cut, but I don't dread going to work every day. All of my staff and contractors are remote too. In jobs where remote work can be done, it should be the way for companies to get competitive.

@picklerix6162 Год назад

I have noticed that a lot of jobs are advertised as remote but when you investigate the details, it’s not really a remote job. The companies located in California must be having a hard time recruiting people to relocate there. Housing is unaffordable.

@jtixtlan Год назад

I am visiting my employer’s global HQ this week. In an expansive farm of about 200 cubicles with low partitions, you can see everyone’s heads. Almost every person is wearing headphones and facing their screens. They are talking to each other through Teams. Even some people I travelled here to collaborate with want to meet via Teams. There’s about 200 people who could have skipped the commute and run their laundry while they worked.

@randyriegel8553 Год назад

I started at my current company as software engineer in late 2021. After my initial training I only had to be in the office 2 days per week. About 6 months ago our team leader went to bat for us. She talked to her boss (VP Tech) and he allowed us to be required in the office 2 days per MONTH. But catch is our whole team has to show up on the same days so we have work out schedules of when everyone can be there. And there has been a few times when there was a demo in our shop of a new robot that they wanted us to all be there and see since we write the code for it and is usually a "lunch and learn" where company caters lunch for us. :)

@Ruab Год назад

We have endless infrastructure to work remotely. I'm going to commute to an office to sit in a zoom meeting with my co-worker who lives in another state or on the other side of the world? Are we fucking joking?

@Legendsingray Год назад

My previous employer told us when we were in the office that we were not to "roam around the building" and that all questions for and from other departments could be answered via phone and email (we were not a public-facing department). Our RTO orders said the primary reason was for collaboration and networking. The hypocrisy was deafening. I told them to shove it and found a better job with a remote-only company. My new company went all in with remote work, sold the buildings they owned, and let the leases run out on all but one in the country, and the only people in that office are employees who have a need to be there.

@Ruab Год назад

@@Legendsingray Anyone who has to spend time and money to commute to an office because you have bad managers needs to speak with their feet. Employers act like they own you and as soon as times get bad they push the boot on your neck. I'm sick of it, I'm 32 years old and have been in corporate for over 10 years now. Every single time employers think they can get away with taking advantage of their staff they do it.

@90210Skye Год назад

Working remote is a huge raise for employees, especially those with daycare-age kids. I remember that lots of remote jobs paid a little less bc they know that you save lots of money.

@CH-yp5by Год назад

I would negotiate in my employment contract , if able to, to have a term that states I will remain a remote worker regardless of company policy change, if they sack me to refuse I would sue them for breach of contract.

@cpK054L Год назад

Make sure to keep a copy and notary on site. Otherwise, your paper is useless

@kated442 Год назад

I do appreciate talking face to face in the office and being able to overhear other chatter about current work, but I love WFH and not having to commute.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Год назад

Same. Being in office does have some social benefits, but I love being at home. I can sleep in longer or get to work on chores or errands quicker once work ends, I have a bigger selection for my lunch, I can nap in bed when I finish lunch early (or make phone calls without needing to find somehwere quiet to speak in the office), I can use my own bathroom. The only benefit I have for going into the office is, "I can speak with my co-workers in person" and sometimes, this helps get something done faster, but even at the office, I still Slack co-workers because they're on the other side of the office, and we only have meetings once a month. I don't see my co-workers too often or for too long each day (most people live too far to come in and thankfully, they're not making a fuss about it). I do really like my co-workers and managers...but I don't think I need to come in every two days of the week, as we currently have scheduled. But I'm grateful it is at least hybrid and I do have some days at home and the people are awesome. It could be worse.

@GenX-Memories Год назад

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a leader/ boss/ manager takes a role, and there is no one around to hear them or see them in-person, do they get their proper "respect and accolades"?

@elizabethbaxter54 Год назад

great point!

@fuzzylon Год назад

Thanks for a really interesting video. I find this situation particularly frustrating because I've spent nearly all of the last 40 years in telecoms progressively enabling people to work remotely as technology has advanced over that time. I've also spent a lot of time working for large corporations where it's normal for teams and management to be distributed around the world and remote is just accepted. It all feels like turning the clock back to the 1970s. I also find it frustrating that moving away has meant that I now have an office at home. It's set up to help me be more effective. Whereas a lot of modern offices are noisy areas with open seating where I struggle to get work done - all the while feeling I'm being measured by presence in the office and not by achieving objectives. I know I can't win - the job market is what it is. Thank you for being a voice of reason in a frustrating world.

@iolss Год назад

I'm not US based, but the alternative I found was to create my own consulting company (similar to a LLC), then I'm able to negotiate contracts with clauses to ensure WFH and flexibility, and I work as a contractor. I know it is not possible for everyone, but I have this opportunity due to the nature of my job

@kassandravandever9322 Год назад

The fact is that I, like other people, refuse to go back to an office. The companies that are forcing their people back are not companies that I would want to work for anyway.

@IberianLife Год назад

I don’t agree with this take at all. Employers will only win this battle while current management is in charge. In other words, older people. Once they retire or die off, technology and the desire of the workforce will prevail. As someone who has worked remotely for the last 6 years, it’s not negotiable. I am willing to work for significantly less money if I have to. I don’t live extravagantly, and I have side ventures. My salary would have to be increased by a minimum of 5x before I would give office work and commuting the slightest consideration. And there are millions of people worldwide like me. That number will only grow.

@lonewolfnergiganos4000 Год назад

As an 18 year old boy/man, I have much to learn about careers. But at least I know a portion of the industry thanks to your videos, keep up the good work 💙😁.

@howtosober Год назад

Then allow me to save you years of hard lessons!!! This whole "quiet quitting" term doesn't make any sense. All it is is literally just doing your job. If you go into a job and *just do the job* from the beginning, then there's nobody to melt down and say you're "quiet quitting" later on because you haven't given them your entire life. Screw corporations' sense of entitlement to your entire life, your thoughts, your social media, and all the other boundary violations they commit. Corporations only do this because we continue to let them get away with it. Labor productivity is at an all-time high compared to 1970, yet we're still getting 1970s wages. They have no right to demand even MORE productivity when their compensation is four decades behind. This guy is wrong that your boss is always going to win the battle. That's only if you're doing it by yourself. This is why *worker solidarity* is so crucial. Join the nationwide labor rights movement at workersstrikeback.org. Don't commute for a job that can be done from home unless your company is willing to pay a huge premium for the inconvenience and your cost of living increases. Unionize your workplace or join your labor union. Discuss and compare your salary with ALL your co-workers no matter what your job says. Take 100% of your PTO. Arrive and leave on time. Don't attend non-mandatory work events or work for free outside normal work hours. Support strikes, work stoppages, and other labor actions. Never cross a picket line or take a job if you're being hired as a scab to replace a striking worker. *This is what we all need to normalize in solidarity with one another. Worker power = economic power. Class struggle is the only remedy.* No matter how much money and power the 1% controls, we are the 99% and we're bigger. And always remember this: "Power concedes NOTHING without a demand. It never has and it never will." -Frederick Douglass

@Jupiterxice Год назад

I will not work in a cubical prison box. If its not hybrid or remote I wont waste a moment of a life in that job. Fyi companies overseas are no allowing working from home.

@brendaechols5929 Год назад

Quiet quitting isnt over. Companies are forcing their employees back to work but it doesn't mean they will go. But that for the company to figure out. Their problem. They wanted to go into business. Thats just how it goes. The hardest part for the employee being remote is not moving around much. No exercise cause you are not moving enough.

@Dweeble233 Год назад

My former commute time was turned into work out time. I set up a pretty nice home gym and dropped 10lbs from my "office weight". Lowered blood pressure also.

@andreak334 Год назад

Remote work saves companies money. The ones who don’t have expensive office leases have a competitive advantage. Remote work allows employers a larger pool of workers to hirer. There will be companies who have a cost advantage compared to a company that requires employees in the office 5 days a week.

@TheHomegirlHealer Год назад

Quiet quitting is a goofy new terminology for something that has been happening for a very long time. People were doing this in an office setting before the pandemmy, they will do it again once they return to the office.

@itsnotme07 Год назад

Yes, they are. Simple reason is the employer holds the keys to a remote job or not. Been lucky there myself as my employer has not done that with me. Good to note, I was hired as a 100% remote worker back in 2021. I've never met my boss or co-workers. Those who were in office prior the pandemic were all mandated to return 3 days a week. On that note, I've been 100% remote since 2008. If they "ordered" me to go to an office. I'd do it if I could go to the local office. If they said "downtown office" then I might consider looking for something new. My commute to that downtown office might be 1.5 to 2 hours each way.

@novadhd Год назад

yep same here . My "home base" is couple hours away from me. If they forced me to go in once a week I can.

@eXtremeFX2010 Год назад

This is your best post yet...Some Corporates are wanting their slaves back in-person.

@Matt-wf7ry Год назад

People will return to the office but will be more pissed off, angry, unhappy and overall have a more miserable life because they are having 1+ hours of free time stolen away from them.

@KevinMDowney Год назад

Employers write the checks, but if you’re a TOP person in your niche, then you will always be able to call the shots.

@Ambrooks83 Год назад

My company is slowly transitioning to a 1-day a week mandate later this year and I'm not too upset as it's far better than 2, 3, 4 or 5 days a week. And ppl who live more than 30km from an office are not mandated to the 1-day a week in office but it's up to the manager and depends. Very tricky situation. Great video!

@sc00b3rt Год назад

I find it interesting how productivity of workers has steadily increased over the years, our pay has not, then companies think that a little downturn in productivity is the end of the world.

@majorneryz Год назад

I think this depends on the business you work in. If you need to exchange a lot with colleagues, be creative together, work in presence for some days in a week - is just a necessity. In IT business this will be very different. Actually i have quite some young people in my team who want to be at the office with colleagues they like. They spent years studying alone at home in lockdown an enjoy working with "real people". Others would like a 100% homeoffice which is not possible in our company (we have 3 days per week in homeoffice, and 2 in the office). It's an interesting evolution and I think the perception of homeoffice might change over the next years.

@littlelambs7044 Год назад

I'm glad to have given up the office a couple of years ago. The office is very political and power-driven.

@angieurban209 Год назад

I don’t know why this was not addressed in this video, but again companies are not mandating return-to-office for everyone across the board. They’re picking out certain groups or individuals to go into the office every day so the majority of the company can work from home every day, particularly the managers, leads, supervisors, etc. That’s the problem; it’s not equal or equitable, and definitely not fair or ethical. I don’t think it’s ethical, and possibly not legal

@cantcomplane 11 месяцев назад

The company I work at has all the old timers/boomers/management back in the office. All the worker bees /younger folks are still remote due to lack of space to bring everyone back. So most of the teams are still remote and this old timer has to commute to be on the phone most of the day anyway.

@lifesIronyboard Год назад

I remember, I think, some movie once where the boss was telling an employee who was debt free, how much he liked his employees being in debt. How it made them harder and more dedicated workers. I have never seen it so well stated. If you can, work for the purpose of being free from needing a job. Then the person who signs your paycheck isn't the one who wins 10 times out of 10. Give yourself the best chance to stand up for yourself and what you want in life, if you can.

@TheScienceNerddAkemi Год назад

Well stated. Would you happen to remember the name of the movie by any chance? It sounds interesting.😊

@lifesIronyboard Год назад

@@TheScienceNerddAkemi I have tried for a while to find it or remember the movie. No luck so far.

@nekomimi5471 Год назад

I remember that scene. I think the movie was Picture Perfect with Jennifer Aniston.

@JC-hu3yj Год назад

Employees not long ago: “act your wage and quiet quitting” 2023 employees: “quiet cutting and quiet firing” 😂😂

@MineCrafterCity Год назад

I get so restless from my office job. The first thing that happens when I'm there is im starting to think, when can I leave again? It's just a feeling of imprisonment.

@MochaZilla Год назад

I work for a large US bank and i work in commercial banking. I was hired 1 year ago and the department went fully remote in 2020. We had a meeting recently where the CEO said that people should be going into the office at least 3 times a week, but it didn't apply to our department. Our department has been a 20% increase in revenue and efficiency has skyrocketed, not to mention they hired me and there isn't a location in my entire state! I feel blessed to have a fully remote job, it's been great to be home and be able to grow professionally.

@mathews4265 Год назад

Its not a coincidence that all these survey results on productivity are being released during a time multiple companies are issuing back to office ultimatums.

@labachaterairlandesa Год назад

I think the productivity metrics from the pandemic were skewed. I think a lot of people used work as a coping mechanism. Most of us had no experience with remote work, and the lines between work and home were blurred. Plus, almost everything was shut down. There was a lot of unhealthy work/life balance. Now, a lot of us are burned out. Inflation has been high, and unless you changed jobs, your raise was probably underwhelming. If pay isn’t keeping up with inflation, then why should people continue to work themselves into the ground? They shouldn’t regardless, but you get my point.

@Donbros Год назад

Graduate from collegr in 2020 literally me 😂 i didnt even got an oppurtunity to get job for a year jusy ecause the same reason you said - companies werent extremely trustful with hiring new people only for remote work Also yes during period a lot of people moved away from cities (a few of my relatives)

@joarcokru 4 месяца назад

Factory workers, logistics operators, nurses, janitors, gardeners are all in solidarity with office workers

@douglasjarnagan3835 Год назад

As tempting as it was to join the crowd and move far away, I stayed in my metro area because I knew this would happen. Employers didnt choose to make us remote, they did it because they had to. Once they didn't have to do it anymore, they were sure to call people back.

@Josh-py9rq Год назад

Depends upon the company some will love it others won’t

@pawpkitty 9 месяцев назад

I work for a big company and they just slapped us with RTO because downtown is suffering. So they made a deal with the city. We're being used as money bags for the city to fix their problems and that does not bode well with me. Of course I'll be getting another job. The company is so big that it doesn't make sense now to go back. We'll just be in teams meetings. My boss lives across the country!

@magicwordxyzzy Год назад

I think now is a good time for remote workers to demand that, if they start going back to the office, that commute time be on the clock, and demand additional compensation for things such as childcare. Yet another reason we must work toward turning EVERY JOB into a UNION JOB, and we need to restore laws that used to exist to support unionization and fight against union and strike busting. And we need to get the entire working class united in this, because it doesn't actually help anyone, even those doing the behaviors, for part of the workforce to go full flex meritocracy in blaming the rest for "being lazy" and "needing to do more work" when we already collectively do the most work ever and most of us aren't getting close to the full value of our labor.

@Scuz24 Год назад

Although I work remote and will not go back to any office as I have it negotiated in my contract, I understand the employers. Many colleagues having meetings at their kitchen table in pyjamas, kids to take care of, relatives walking by etc. Some have their proper home offices, but I wouldn't say its a majority. I find it rather unprofessional how some people handle remote work. Regarding these "studies" pro or contra remote work, I do not trust any of them. The ones pro remote are conducted by asking workers if they are more productive and the ones contra are conducted by asking managers. It's just nonsense data. Prductivity in my company is more or less the same from my own experience, but it's clear that emergencies are harder to handle remote due to harder collaboration between departments. It's just easier to go in person to the warehouse/repair/accounting and intervene immediately in person. European here.

@RandomFandomDragon Год назад

We need to stop giving these CEOs and corporations the benefit of the doubt - those forcing RTO are 100% doing it because of the expensive building they bought or they rent, or some other financial reason. Any other claims, if they are even true, are secondary. Let those who want to go back in do so, and leave the rest of us alone.

@JustMe99999 11 месяцев назад

I've been working remotely since 2020 and would never go back unless I absolutely had to.

@CallegriaofSoulbound Год назад

Welcome to the United States where our rich are so stupid they believe their employees have just as much money as they do. I'm rich if I can do it you can do it too! Yes I understand that the truth is that the rich aren't even that nice but I was trying to make some kind of a light hearted joke. The real joke is the boomers who still believe hard work and picking yourself up by your bootstraps are rewarding. Working hard hasn't been rewarding since 2005. What we need more then anything else is a revolution at the work place. We need to abandon companies in a rush not as a union strike but to watch and entire generation of companies die. I know it is not possible for most people but it is what we need to do.

@clytemnestra Год назад

Graduated in '22 and have been remote since I started working shortly after. I imagine I'll have an in person job at some point but find it hard to imagine being more productive when I have to get less sleep and waste energy commuting.

@z-bird9548 11 месяцев назад

Wouldn’t it be more profitable to have employees be remote for any job to be remote? Paying for an office is probably a lot of money.

@Andrew-it7fb 11 месяцев назад

Quiet quitting. Also known as doing the job you're paid to do.

@eberronbruce1328 Год назад

So, employers want people go back to the cities that have record level crime and for you to sit in traffic for an hour or more just so they can pad their real estate portfolio and micromanage you. Basic making you a slave. Given the social unrest, which by the way is only going to get worse, it shows that a company does not care about the safety of their employees as you have a higher chance of being a victim in one of these areas. Not to mention they don't care about the environment as well because the force commute. It is safer for their employees to be living outside the cities as it is less likely they will get caught up in these flash violent criminal mobs that we have being seeing.

@FangerZero Год назад

If I ever have to go back to an office I'm going to put up a sign, "This is my job, not my family, my family is at at home waiting for me and doesn't care where I work." These large corps are just butt hurt at the millions of dollars they spent when they realized they didn't have to spend a dime on a building.

@biagia1231 Год назад

I have a feeling this is coming from bankers or billionaires. They hold the loans to these offices and are probably putting pressure on these businesses

@FancyBarnacles Год назад

I got lucky and switched to a fully remote job in 2021 for a group that has always been remote, even prior to the pandemic. I thought it was going to be perfect for me but I understand now why lots of employers want their employees back in office. For me, the pros of remote work is having a super flexible schedule, no commute, and unnecessary distractions and work politics. The cons that not enough people talk about are how isolating and lonely it can be, the lack of comradery and how much more effort you have to put in to build the trust and respect between you and your peers. There's a lot of overthinking because you have no one to bounce ideas off of. Self-discipline has also been challenging on some days. I work in engineering, so technically we don't actually need to be face to face with coworkers, but it would be nice go interact with people and build a small community at work.

@Matrix803 Год назад

Funny thing for me is, I actually went from working remotely to a job working in office-- despite the fact that I prefer working remotely. Mostly because the remote job I was at was so fucking miserable that I gladly left that in 2021 for an in-office job (which only has a 15 minute commute on all back roads anyway). Despite that though, I prefer working remotely still, and I recently started doing so on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In-office, for me, I actually get less human interaction than when I'm at home. If I need help with something I just GChat my supervisor, so no issues with collaborating there. Self-disciplining is definitely an issue, too, even in the office. But I'd rather get better at forcing myself to stay on-task than being micro-managed (which I'm not at my current job, thankfully). I think since I'm more introverted/have high-functioning autism, I tend to have more energy when I'm by myself. Lol. :P

@JasonTaylor-po5xc Год назад

Remote work aka working from home is a 21st century skill for any knowledge worker or any such job that can be done that way. Even if hybrid, you need this skill to be successful long term. Understanding the common pitfalls and how to avoid them, the main up and downsides are all important. I think WFH is here to stay for certain positions - mainly high demand. The pandemic proved we could do it, but of course, large office buildings need to be leased. So, screw anyone that can't write their own checks.

@rowanwoolsey3184 Год назад

I agree with you, for sure. The pressure is back on employees to show up to the office. I especially appreciated what you said at the end around understanding your unique skills so that you can hold onto some of that leverage in job negotiations with employers that appreciate those skills.

@everss02 Год назад

You need daycare whether remote or not, having kids at isn't working remote properly, there is no way you could concentrate.

@pulidobl Год назад

Yeah, how can you concentrate with a couple toddlers/preschoolers running around getting into everything? SMH

@middleagebrotips3454 Год назад

It means if you are holding zoom stocks you should sell.

@h0lyavenger Год назад

wonder if the push back from remote work would make the real estate market better. Too bad most people are locked into the 3% or lower rates, but if tons of people start to get laid off because they moved too far away maybe that would tip the scale a bit

@Wesley_H Год назад

We are definitely witnessing the wind down to the Great Resignation. Glad I went back to school when I did, but I could have done without the year long job hunt.

@attilazimler1614 Год назад

Do you think that companies seeing competitive advantages in remote first approach are actually going to win out at the end because people willing to move around from companies forcing people back are going to be the real winners?

@fugu4163 Год назад

My experience working remotely against a deadline for a project is that i found my self working a lot more and longer than otherwise. It is kind of difficult to split the time between work and leisure time.

@ChickenPizza Год назад

That title confused me a bit. Quiet quitting and remote work aren't mutually inclusive, so I'm not sure why remote work ending would have any effect on people doing just what they're paid to do.

@ALifeAfterLayoff Год назад

Quiet quitting is actually people who've scaled back to doing the bare minimum to not get fired. You're referring to "Act your wage". Employers are trying to link a lack of productivity to remote work.

@ChickenPizza Год назад

@@ALifeAfterLayoff I'd argue both of those terms are synonymous, as doing the bare minimum to not get fired would be doing precisely what you're paid to do and nothing more. I suppose in that context it's more of a semantics thing, but as far as the title it's still confusing because remote work and quiet quitting aren't really related to each other.

@eminemkh Год назад

Bryan I have enjoyed most of your video and it made me a subscriber. I loved the idea of being the CEO of your own career. Unfortunately, this video might be the one i enjoyed the least. While I can see you have give some arguments on both sides, employees and employers, it seems like you are favouring the return to office trend. You mentioned a research about how remote work reduces productivity but yet to quote many researches not only state otherwise, but the also the benefit employee mental health, general happiness and loyalty towards the company. I can see how the video wields back into your speciality and products on getting people better jobs, but I would love to see you made a stand on remote work versus return to office, as many people do look up to you.

@kevinmach730 Год назад

I disagree, I think he presented both sides well and if anything, I like his past videos indicate he is more in favor or remote work. Sounds like you just don't want to acknowledge any pros of in person work from the companies perspective, which is both unrealistic and false.

@ALifeAfterLayoff Год назад

I've been working remote for the past 7 years, and prefer it to an office. I try to make fair arguments both ways and report the trends I'm seeing. And make no mistake, employers are pushing people to return to the office.

@parler8698 10 месяцев назад

Top performers are remote.

@the_dungeoneer Год назад

I personally believe it is a power play by companies and, as an unintended consequence, it helps exonerate inept managers from their duty of actually addressing employees, who are not pulling their weight in a WFH situation. I can get twice as much done at home than the office, but I do it my way, which means I am not chained to my desk at home. Also, I've heard that the home acts as a distraction, perhaps for some, but for me - I can work distraction free at home. In the office, I'd be lucky to get 20mins without a distraction. However, at the moment companies here (UK) are indeed winning the return to the office war, for exactly the reasons you give; the economy is precarious - average employees can't be choosy right now. I think it's an interesting dynamic though, and the pendulum may well swing back towards the employees soon enough.

@Aieshoo Год назад

Middle managers need to exert control over others somehow.

@timgibney5590 Месяц назад

The answer is simple. It is based on supply vs demand. In 2022 we had the power. In 2024 at the brink of a recession (I will check this post in 2025 to see if we hit which I think we are) the employer chooses. So guess what? RTO forced people to quit and they company saves money without paying UE.