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Not necessarily a win when you try to replace someone with 20+ years of experience and extensive local knowledge with someone who doesn’t even understand the job. We aren’t talking manufacturing or labor positions. We’re taking about skilled professional work. They might save money until they realized that productivity and work quality fell through the floor.If your company loses senior members over this and hires younger ones for a fraction of the salary, that's a win for them. The younger ones will have no savings, and no means to access healthcare without the employer. They are more controllable.
Companies have no incentive to provide those stats because they have invested too much in office real estate whose value will collapse if employees are not forced to commute there anymore. Small businesses that rely on workers being forced to commute to offices near their locations will die. Real estate values in all areas zoned for office buildings will collapse.There are no statistics regarding working at home vs productivity because it might impact public opinion about the covid restrictions and the administration.
Skilled professionals are everywhere. You'd probably be long gone if not for your union. If your business persists with not giving a shit about you despite your senior status, ask yourself if they actually value you.Not necessarily a win when you try to replace someone with 20+ years of experience and extensive local knowledge with someone who doesn’t even understand the job. We aren’t talking manufacturing or labor positions. We’re taking about skilled professional work. They might save money until they realized that productivity and work quality fell through the floor.
We are 13 people in an office built for 50 in a building that holds 300 currently and is being renovated to hold roughly 500. They could actually benefit from not having us in the space we occupyIt's simple. Companies have paid for office space. They hate to see that go empty.
That does not filter up the line to the powers that be who call the shots. What they see is 50 year olds who have been with the company 20+ years making all kinds of money doing a job that a recent college grad could do (in their minds) for half.Not necessarily a win when you try to replace someone with 20+ years of experience and extensive local knowledge with someone who doesn’t even understand the job. We aren’t talking manufacturing or labor positions. We’re taking about skilled professional work. They might save money until they realized that productivity and work quality fell through the floor.
That’s interesting. Especially in a Union environment, you can’t replace experience. You can’t hire a Level 3 employee when they have to have multiple years of experience at Levels 1 & 2 to get to Level 3.Skilled professionals are everywhere. You'd probably be long gone if not for your union. If your business persists with not giving a shit about you despite your senior status, ask yourself if they actually value you.
You’re nothing more than just another resource to them. Hence the name change of the Personnel Department to Human Resources.I’ve long understood that my employer doesn’t give a crap about any of the employees
Thankfully most of our personnel decisions are made at relatively low leveks. I know my Supervisor and his Manager don’t want to lose anyone. I’m not sure the other guy would really go through with it (he’s 24 months from retirement), and I would pursue alternatives to leaving before doing so, but I’ve updated my resume and I’m ready to go if I have to.That does not filter up the line to the powers that be who call the shots. What they see is 50 year olds who have been with the company 20+ years making all kinds of money doing a job that a recent college grad could do (in their minds) for half.
Of course not! They’re ones who’ll suffer from the inexperience of the new (lower paid) people.I know my Supervisor and his Manager don’t want to lose anyone.
Agree. But most companies are locked into long-term leases. Even worse, they may own the building and which, with office space going a-begging, will only be able to be sold at a loss.We are 13 people in an office built for 50 in a building that holds 300 currently and is being renovated to hold roughly 500. They could actually benefit from not having us in the space we occupy
It's simple. Companies have paid for office space. They hate to see that go empty.
They AREN'T thinking or there is an ulterior motive where someone stands to profit some other way from that lack of productivity including outsourcing.I’m wondering if others are experiencing similar issues at work…
I work in an operation/engineering support department for a major electric utility company here in the Northeast.
For the last two years we’ve been working from home. After we de-centralized in March of 2020, our department’s productivity and efficiency increased markedly. In the last month we have been forced to return to the office one day a week, which will increase to two days a week within the next month. They claim it won’t exceed that, but I have my doubts.
In the four weeks we’ve been back in the office part-time, department productivity and efficiency have dropped. Not quite to pre-pandemic levels, but we’re definitely not at full WFH efficiency anymore.
can anyone explain to me why a company would prefer to have us work less efficiently and productively? They claim it has to do with allowing for more efficient collaboration between groups, morale building, etc… None of that applies to us. I just don’t get it.
I’m wondering if others are experiencing similar issues at work…
I work in an operation/engineering support department for a major electric utility company here in the Northeast.
For the last two years we’ve been working from home. After we de-centralized in March of 2020, our department’s productivity and efficiency increased markedly. In the last month we have been forced to return to the office one day a week, which will increase to two days a week within the next month. They claim it won’t exceed that, but I have my doubts.
In the four weeks we’ve been back in the office part-time, department productivity and efficiency have dropped. Not quite to pre-pandemic levels, but we’re definitely not at full WFH efficiency anymore.
can anyone explain to me why a company would prefer to have us work less efficiently and productively? They claim it has to do with allowing for more efficient collaboration between groups, morale building, etc… None of that applies to us. I just don’t get it.
There’s only so much imagination they can employ. We’re in a “secure” building that only certain people have access to. I have multiple access control points to deal with between the street and my desk. Even basic access to the building is restricted, and access to certain areas of the building are restricted (by Federal regulation) beyond that.Agree. But most companies are locked into long-term leases. Even worse, they may own the building and which, with office space going a-begging, will only be able to be sold at a loss.
But, mainly, it is a lack of imagination by senior older execs. People have always come into an office space to work and that is all they know...
