Want Your Best Workers to Quit? Make Them Come In Every Day

[1srelluc]

Want Your Best Workers to Quit? Make Them Come In Every Day

Amazon, the Washington Post and — if Elon Musk gets his way — the government, are demanding employees return to the office full-time. It will backfire.

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Five days a week. That’s the new return-to-office policy at Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post and at Amazon.com Inc., the retail giant now run by his designated successor Andy Jassy. It’s also the RTO recommendation Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have announced for the US federal government. It’s a terrible way to manage talent. It seems obvious that these unpopular policies are a way to spur employees to quit.

Similarly, Musk and Ramaswamy, whom President-elect Donald Trump has named to spearhead a new government efficiency effort, laid out their thinking in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. A five-day-a-week schedule could result in a “wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,” they wrote. Ramaswamy told Tucker Carlson that the plan could get perhaps 1 in 4 federal workers to quit.

Well duh, they do want .gov workers to quit. Its cheaper than layoffs.....Hell, I want millions of federal workers to quit.

The bulk of them do next to nothing all day. In fact a lot of them do worse than nothing, they "suggest".

You could fire 50% of them and things would probably be better. Nobody misses them during .gov shutdowns.

Imagine 25% of those government employees quitting and no one could tell a difference.

Then they go look for a new job:

Interviewer: Why did you leave your last position?

Former .gov worker: they made me actually go to work.

I suspect that some very smart people are going to make some contracting/consulting business where they bring top talent in at bargain basement pricing by simply allowing them to fully work remote.

They will make a killing and that is fine.....I'm sure they don't expect "the best" to be among former .gov workers.

 

[rightwinger]

It all comes down to the management style of…..you can’t work without me watching you

The idea of people work better in a cubicle than at home

 

[Thunk]

 

[whitehall]

Best workers?

 

[rightwinger]

Best workers?

Best workers have options
Changing the terms of employment will force your best workers to look elsewhere

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It all comes down to the management style of…..you can’t work without me watching you

The idea of people work better in a cubicle than at home

Some people can work from home. Some people are not disciplined enough to do it or there are too many distractions. The idea that people can't come back into the office and work just like they did their entire lives until four years ago, is ridiculous.

 

[rightwinger]

Some people can work from home. Some people are not disciplined enough to do it or there are too many distractions. The idea that people can't come back into the office and work just like they did their entire lives until four years ago, is ridiculous.

The thing is ….people don’t want to
Why spend 1-2 hours a day commuting with all related transportation costs?

If you demand all workers commute every day just so you can watch them and someone else offers telecommute…..you will lose your best workers

 

[rightwinger]

A good manager assigns work and verifies the quality of that work.
A good manager does not need to hover over cubicles to see who is working and who isn’t.

 

[mudwhistle]

It all comes down to the management style of…..you can’t work without me watching you

The idea of people work better in a cubicle than at home

After nearly 20 yrs of civil service I discovered that working for the government destroys your incentive to be productive.

However, I'd still be working there if it weren't for my wife coming down sick.

 

[whitehall]

Best workers have options
Changing the terms of employment will force your best workers to look elsewhere

Terms of employment only work in the private sector. Federal bureaucrats work under n entirely different set of rules. Drain the swamp.

 

[toobfreak]

Want Your Best Workers to Quit? Make Them Come In Every Day​

Let them quit!
What are they going to do, hold out for another employer that lets them work from home AND pays as well as the government?

Good luck finding it.

They will find slim pickings and less pay.
If they come back to work and don't produce, they will be fired.
The times they are a changing.

 

[boevans]

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Good riddance, Curly.

 

[1srelluc]

Let them quit!
What are they going to do, hold out for another employer that lets them work from home AND pays as well as the government?

Good luck finding it.

They will find slim pickings and less pay.
If they come back to work and don't produce, they will be fired.
The times they are a changing.

The ones in my AO who work remote will either be looking for digs closer to the DC area or leaving for work at 0430 and getting home at around 1800.....Good riddance I say.

 

[rightwinger]

Terms of employment only work in the private sector. Federal bureaucrats work under n entirely different set of rules. Drain the swamp.

The best federal employees are free to seek employment elsewhere if they get better offers

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

It all comes down to the management style of…..you can’t work without me watching you

The idea of people work better in a cubicle than at home

That’s what McKinsey found. I am smarter than rightwinger

 

[Thunk]

If enough of them don't quit they could always move the office to northern alaska & say you STILL have to come in 5 days a week

 

[justoffal]

It all comes down to the management style of…..you can’t work without me watching you

The idea of people work better in a cubicle than at home

I think it varies with individuals. There are some people who certainly can't be trusted to do their money's worth on the clock and off the property.
There are some individuals who contribute so much off the property that it would be meaningless to make them come on to the property. Like everything else this kind of privilege has the people who abuse it and ruin it for everyone.