01 Mar In office Fridays
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The RTO battle is over and the WFH crowd won. So says the MSM.
Another day, another time when Thor’s “is he though” meme feels appropriate.
–https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/01/23/the-rto-war-is-over/
One side of mouth: the RTO war is over and remote workers won!
Other side of mouth: layoffs target the remote folk.
Gawd. If we were writing this as satire, who’d publish it? The editor would tell us it’s too unbelievable for a fiction novel. Then these cronies go off to Davos and lament that the public doesn’t trust the MSM anymore! 😣
–https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/01/26/i-thought-that-war-was-over/
Now on the heels of being told that the 4 day work week is the way of the future, we get:
So long, four–day weekend from home—it was nice while it lasted. Now, Fridays are increasingly becoming just another office day as businesses move on from the COVID-era habit of remote working, new figures suggest.
Casual encounters by the water cooler were often seen as the casualty of working from home. So to get an idea of how many people are back in the office, look no further than water cooler companies—like, Bevi.
According to the company, 25% of Fortune 500 companies have at least one Bevi in their office, with big names like Apple, Netflix and Uber among its clients.
–https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/four-day-weekends-home-over-115128704.html
MSM: workers have the power! Things are so different from the pre-pandemic years!
Also the MSM: ha ha, not really.
But starting this month, L’Oréal’s CEO Nicolas Hieronimus wants his 88,000-strong workforce to show face on Fridays instead of Wednesdays, at least twice a month.
Hieronimus has been clear-cut about his stance on remote workers who, in his eyes, have “absolutely no attachment, passion or creativity”. But his beef with Fridays specifically remains unclear.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank AG has outright banned staff from working at home on a Friday and the following Monday with the aim to “spread our presence more evenly across the week.”
But the shift won’t sit well with workers, who have sworn off ending the week at the office: With the four-day week, mid-week hybrid schedules, and Summer Fridays gaining momentum, research has consistently shown that Fridays are by far employees’ favorite day to work from home—and they’d even take a pay cut to never have to work another Friday again.
-Yahoo Finance, Ibid.
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