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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’ll soon realize it’s a mistake. 5 days a week isn’t sustainable for most families today, unless you’re making gobs of money and can outsource everything your family needs.  People will just call out and be less available.  I’ve seen it in real time. As a manager who is short staffed, I prefer a hybrid (3 days in office) approach.[/quote]

I agree that it's shortsighted and not the best policy.  That said, what makes full time in the office unsustainable in 2026 that wasn't a factor in 1999, or January 2020?  What changed?  [/quote]

The need for 2 jobs to maintain the same level of living as the 1990s. DH and I both had a SAHM so our dads just commuted, worked, came home and all the house/family stuff was as managed. Now it takes 2 working parents with grad degrees for a similar standard of living.

Also the rise in real estate costs. My boomer coworkers bought their N Arlington homes for peanuts in the 90s while my younger coworkers have to super commute from where they can afford to live.

Plus increased work expectations. Employers want the benefit of remote work with everyone always on and reachable. This isn’t sustainable if employees are also in office 5 days per week. People have lives beyond their jobs

Not to mention I think we know more today about unhealthy the workaholic lifestyle is and people are realizing they don’t want to devote their lives to a company that no longer offers loyalty or a pension. [/quote]

Don’t bother, the PP won’t acknowledge that average Americans are way worse off now than the were in 1999, and even 2020.  Doesn’t fit the narrative.  Draconian in-person rules for office workers isn’t good for workers, only good for cutting heads.  It is shortsighted though.  The people you’re losing with this aren’t necessarily the ones you want to lose.  I’ve got GREAT people burning out and becoming less productive I t he same of this, while the people who were never any good are even worse but hang on just barely because they have no other options.  It’s brutal. And to the PP that talks about service jobs… remember that May of those jobs are extremely high turnover, or well compensated, or unionized.[/quote]

I say people at work have not worked a real workweek since around the mid 1990s. My company at that time rolled out Casual Fridays. We even had Levi company come in and do a presentation on what to wear to work on Fridays. Of course they plugged their Docker pants. Anyhow we rolled it out. Next thing I know I am in Docker pants, boat shoes, wearing a polo shirt and Friday felt like a day off. My dept used to go out to a two hour liquid lunch some days. We do paperwork catch up and go to coffee and head out door 430pm Was begining of end it slowly moved to five days a week, then flex hours, then paternity leave, then work from home snow days untill 2020 when we stopped going to work at all, or even bathing or shaving and were drunk watching pornhub and netlix in covid doing nothing.

I say we need to go back and restart.  [/quote]

Yes let’s all go back to the efficiency and productivity of 1995. That makes so much sense. [/quote]

My old company in 1995 had 40 people in my old dept. I know person in charge of dept today. He has 120 people doing the work of 40 today. My other  dept I ran in 2019 had 5 people I left right before Covid now has 13 people. And company has less work today.

Too many companies have lazy non self motivated employees who in renote do terrible. They were built to be in person with boss cracking the whip

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You can be lazy in the office or at home. [/quote]

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