Per Bloomberg,
“ The return-to-office mandate, which starts in July in Dallas and Atlanta and will be implemented everywhere else by Sept. 4, will apply to more than 60,000 managers. Stankey said that 85% of those people live near one of the offices. As for the remaining 15%, “many will make decisions that are appropriate to their lives,” he said. “If they want to be a part of building a great culture and environment they’ll come along on these adjustments and changes. ”
Did they even consider how many of those “15%” are their CSO (security) people and their DR teams ?
I’m not against an RTO but this seems certainly seems like a knee-jerk reaction to other/outside pressures . The arrogance just drips off that statement as well “if they want to be a part of building a great culture “?? We did! We did want that! That’s why we stayed through all the horrible decisions (t-mobile. Time Warner ) and the greedy grab of DTV and HBO by leaders who pleaded with us to just wait it out and we’d see the vision.
We stayed through sla-ghter-fests of surplus and outsourcing of people who had tremendous knowledge of the business, the loss of whom caused a huge void of progress and process - and decimated cohesive teams.
So for leadership to proclaim to the media that the ‘team-player’ employees will uproot their families and lives to move across the country with no relocation help and no job guarantees for their words of a new ‘great culture’ … well it’s crystal clear they don’t even know what that means.