RTO? Just Say No

From an item in The Register (whose slogan, incidentally, used to be “Biting the hand that feeds IT”):

Despite high-profile calls for employees to get their butts back behind their desks in a traditional workplace setting, more people – at least in the UK – are ignoring return-to-office mandates, a study has found.

and:

Just 42 percent said they’d listen to their bosses and go back onsite for five days a week. This is down from the 54 percent that said they’d comply with requests in early 2022.

You read that correctly. They’re just not listening to their bosses. It’s genius. Why stick it the The Man when you can just ignore him and get on with your work? Truly, they are the new Bartleby.

Tech firms were previously warned they risk losing their best talent if they order employees to work from the office, and there is seemingly no benefit to productivity or the bottom line for corporations that do so.

Indeed. We all know why they want their workers back. It’s control.

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