Here’s a link to the actual article.
The article goes hard on what’s lost working from home, but doesn’t even touch the myriad benefits of working from home. Very much a one-sided, non-nuanced, pro-middle-management, bullshit article.
Hybrid working appears to be the most successful option for most industries.
Source? I work fully remote, and I produce at three times the level I did pre-pandemic when I was in-person.
I can’t think of any reason my specific job would require any in-person element outside occasional team building.
Don’t bother reading Forbes.
They’re directly invested in maintaining the status quo.
Employers should pay for travelled hours and cost. Then we’ll see if coming tot he office is worth those extra two hours per day of pay with no work.
Rather than be infuriated, block the site that wrote such a nonsense. Consider writing a relevant email first, where you explain your position and ask friends to join you in your boycott.
The world is like it is, because we forgot that there are consequences to our actions and claims.
As usual, I blame exTwitter and Facebook.
I think the huge misconception is that jobs that require specific tasks that don’t fit well in WFH means the entire job doesn’t fit. Collaborative tasks many times require in office interactions and whiteboarding. But I’d be willing to bet that out of a given week that isn’t your entire 40 hours.
Honestly I think a lot of this push is that we are finding manager roles are unnecessary. With collaboration more difficult it has become more effective to go right to the source rather than the trickle down method we used to use.