<story><title>The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90969112/op-ed-the-real-reason-ceos-want-workers-back-in-the-office-is-because-they-want-you-to-quit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkjuice4all</author><text>&amp;quot;My advice to the many CEOs tasked with this decision? Just own it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could get this level of honesty from CEOs - but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend that firing people is the only driver for RTO.&lt;p&gt;Some other motivations include:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money
  - We&amp;#x27;re getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses
  - We&amp;#x27;ve sunk cost into our little in-person fiefdom and upper management needs the powertrip to justify the headache that is working in upper management
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Obviously this is not an exhaustive list - but it&amp;#x27;s annoying to deal with the deception when looking for jobs or trying to determine if a company is going to pull the rug out for the purposes of &amp;quot;business&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So yes - the CEOs should just own &amp;quot;it&amp;quot;, but so should the politicians and real estate owners&amp;#x2F;investors who are also concerned that their tax base or investment value don&amp;#x27;t hold up to this new model of working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taylodl</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. The workers know it&amp;#x27;s BS, they know they&amp;#x27;re having smoke blown up their ass, and they know they&amp;#x27;re being lied to. The next thing you know there&amp;#x27;s going to be companies complaining of poor employee morale. Wow! Who would have thought continually lying to your employees would produce poor morale?&lt;p&gt;Then what really burns my ass is these are the same people who are going to be &lt;i&gt;whining&lt;/i&gt; to the major &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; outlets that &amp;quot;nobody wants to work anymore.&amp;quot; No, we just don&amp;#x27;t want to work for assholes like &lt;i&gt;them.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90969112/op-ed-the-real-reason-ceos-want-workers-back-in-the-office-is-because-they-want-you-to-quit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkjuice4all</author><text>&amp;quot;My advice to the many CEOs tasked with this decision? Just own it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could get this level of honesty from CEOs - but let&amp;#x27;s not pretend that firing people is the only driver for RTO.&lt;p&gt;Some other motivations include:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money
  - We&amp;#x27;re getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses
  - We&amp;#x27;ve sunk cost into our little in-person fiefdom and upper management needs the powertrip to justify the headache that is working in upper management
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Obviously this is not an exhaustive list - but it&amp;#x27;s annoying to deal with the deception when looking for jobs or trying to determine if a company is going to pull the rug out for the purposes of &amp;quot;business&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So yes - the CEOs should just own &amp;quot;it&amp;quot;, but so should the politicians and real estate owners&amp;#x2F;investors who are also concerned that their tax base or investment value don&amp;#x27;t hold up to this new model of working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxHoppersGhost</author><text>Is it crazy to think that working from an office is just more productive? Especially if you’re a big company and have a lot of new grads&amp;#x2F;inexperienced hires that are harder to train up remotely?</text></comment>