More companies forcing employees back into offices

Companies are forcing millions of Americans to say goodbye to working from home and hello to offices and shared spaces. Paul McDonald, a senior executive director at Robert Half, a company that helps with hiring across various industries, joins CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers and Anne-Marie Green to discuss this major workplace shift.

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[sweetnaomi]

No lol office work is awful. The only people who want to go back in the office are executives who hate their families and use work as an excuse to not be around them. Remote work for the win!

[markbosky]

If management requires you to be in office to "be seen", you have poor managers.

[chrismais]

Two things. They are clinging to the mindset of trust dealing with micromanagement having to see someone in a cubicle working as a visible assurance of productivity. Productivity is either there or its not where you are at home or not.
Secondly..these companies have paid for the real estate and the infrastructural utility and they need to see a return on that expenditure. Now Pandoras Box has been opened already as of the pandemic. People would rather resign and sign on with a remote work institution for the work life balance it offers than be forced into compliance. The great resignation just happened not to long ago.

[Vizzi]

This will backfire, I know people that have gotten used to being able to talk a walk around their neighborhood during lunch. Maybe doing dishes for a little mental break. They’re saving on transportation costs, depreciation on their cars, and finding better time frames in which to start their days.
This is just the group of elderly people who were at risk of dying from COVID attempting to grasp back some power

[stanleycoleman]

These companies could be saving so much on rent and utilities if they would just adopt a hybrid model in cases where it makes practical sense.

[infini.tesimo]

They don't realize what people will do to maintain working remotely or rather I should say "independently". Taking that away from people will cause hardly anyone to go back to the office even if you give them a 6 figure salary. People want their time back and they will take a pay cut in order to have that.

[sidehustlevikki]

This is just another way for companies to continue to try to control their employees and it's really annoying that employers continue to NOT LISTEN to their employees. If your staff has been remote for the last year+ and you have not seen a dip in productivity or financial loss that is directly related to productivity and not the economy I don't understand why companies would concern themselves with something that really does not matter especially when all the statistics show that employees are MORE productive at home, and it saves businesses money. Any company that decides to make its employees come back into the office will lose a lot of staff. People have had 1 year+ to realize that they gain an extra couple of hours in the day by not having to get up, get ready, and sit in traffic for a couple of hours that they aren't getting compensated for. I don't really see everyone jumping on board with this.

[DistrustHumans]

Criticism of remote work... from someone working remotely. I call that irony...

[killaking]

Employeers have the power now…. But remember recessions and fear of losing your job won’t last long.

[KEE_Wii]

The excuses used by executives aren’t really relevant because they are going to say whatever helps their bottom line. Plain and simple almost no actual employees are asking to get their commutes back. If you are hiring people you can’t trust to get the job done it sounds like you aren’t a good manager.

[twilitetide]

It's beyond idiotic, depending on the job, to force people back to week. So I went back a partial week hybrid and the difference was wasted gas, wasted commute, and irritation. A lot of people I work with are cross country so meetings were online anyway, so the idea of collaboration in person was nonsense. As for people goofing off, we have to use company equipment and there is no privacy, and if your boss chats you you had better answer.

By letting people remote work, they are more likely to use local businesses where they actually live, that 20-50 miles where they commuted to. More of a village community like the old days when you could walk to work than the marathon daily commute to the suburbs.
Unused office space can be replaced with small shops and low cost apartments. Ecologically how much pollution is spewed into the air from commuters. Finally Covid is still here, I have no desire to sit in an airless conference room with potentially sick people are they kidding.

[migdon]

Capitalism sucks. So much of this work in these offices are a waste of time. Banking is fake, Healthcare billing is all a waste of time and money, Real estate offices are a waste of time. So much of all these capitalistic work is a waste of our time. We all have a short life in this world and we deserve to live our lives! Work hours needs to be reduced so people can go out and pursue their passion. You wonder why people are so Jaded, sad and upset, it's because people are overworked, underpaid and not appreciated.

[nathanielsingleton]

Forcing workers back to the office will not stop the collapse of commercial office real estate.

[Zayelion]

Going back to the office makes no economic sense for anyone except commercial real estate that bought high, businesses that rely on foot traffic, and city governments that are over extended on cash flow. It cost the business rent and utilities for the building, it cost them extra to keep the labor, it limits them on talent, and people are gonna quit and go to remote jobs so they triple loose in the labor sector. Brain based workers are just gonna take the first opportunity to quit, possibly at lower cost, and give their possibly better talent to other companies that allow remote work.

This is the same process that happened to malls and other brick and mortar stores. It works for some but the Amazons and Walmarts of the labor force are going to eat them up. Businesses are collections of systems. The office system is very broken and duct taped with micromanagement. Businesses that can cut or fix those systems will get ahead very quickly.

[SchwarzeKatter]

So much for the back to the office propaganda. These companies' motto should be something like: "No matter how productive you are, if I don't see you, you are not working"

[janetgriffin]

So many people would rather quit than go back to the office. This will backfire.

[Randomcharacters_]

I’m okay with hybrid, but leave the choice up to the employee. Unless there is a need to actually be in the office.

For me the worse part of going into the office is the fact that there is no benefit to be there. Nothing of what I do or who I interact with is in the office while I am. So why do I have to be there other to hit an arbitrary 60% in office quota

[gregallen]

Also a lot of it has to do with money. Many companies have invested small fortunes in building their own headquarters and satellite offices, or they are in long-term leases for large spaces.

But my opinion is if someone can do their job remotely and do it just as well as they could in the office then let them.

[zeheero]

Not ever job can be done remote, I don't see anyway a mechanic repair cars remotely. However, for the people who work in the tech sector, remote can be done. For companies that are forcing people to come to office, I feel like that is the old way of thinking.

[kam]

I'll come back to the office, but I'm going to require double the salary.