Disney Parks office-based employees begin returning to work locations

[WondersOfLife]

I can definitely see how remote work is better and more productive. "Hermits" will typically hyperfocus on their work if they don't have to go out and be surrounded by people looking over their shoulder.

 

[Andrew C]

This is the common argument, but has been proven over and over again to be false.

Except...it hasn't. It isn't so black and white. Not everyone is a good fit for remote work.

No, most upper management at traditional companies does it because they honestly believe the productivity myths of in-office collaboration.

Assumptions...

 

[Andrew C]

I can definitely see how remote work is better and more productive.

For some...they are absolutely more productive..

For others..not so much.

 

[Andrew C]

You have to, as a leader, put the structures in place to do it. I work at a highly collaborative, highly innovative successful tech company, and we are 100% remote.

Is it hard to imagine that this structure is not suited for every business type...and no one is to blame if it just doesn't work and an in-office environment is better for them?

 

[Hakunamatata]

A zoom call is fine - but it should be one on one, not some mass layoff thing. That's the decent, human thing to do, and the fact that he laid off 900 people on one Zoom call tells me exactly what kind of leader he is.

Doing the math. If you held one call every 30 minutes thats 16 calls in a work day. At that rate it would take 56ish work days. Not reasonable.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

For some...they are absolutely more productive..

For others..not so much.

You’re not gonna win this one. In most cases

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Doing the math. If you held one call every 30 minutes thats 16 calls in a work day. At that rate it would take 56ish work days. Not reasonable.

That would make them a scumbag with limited time…nothing more

 

[Lilofan]

That's just sh***y.

A zoom call to lay off 900 staff is safer than laying off 900 in person ( ie workplace violence or someone might go postal ).

 

[mikejs78]

Doing the math. If you held one call every 30 minutes thats 16 calls in a work day. At that rate it would take 56ish work days. Not reasonable.

In most companies the CEO isn't the one personally laying each person off. Direct manager and HR.

 

[Andrew C]

Doing the math. If you held one call every 30 minutes thats 16 calls in a work day. At that rate it would take 56ish work days. Not reasonable.

Yeah. Even if you split it up among other leaders and HR, it would take way too long and cause panic and unnecessary stress for those they hadn’t gotten to yet. So you could do it this way or do it in a mass email.

My company did the furloughs during Covid in mass emails. We are global so it made sense and they provided all the information we needed immediately to make it go smoothly.

 

[networkpro]

You're naming the legacy companies that smaller, more innovative companies are soaking up talent from.

But not market share.

 

[mikejs78]

But not market share.

That's.... Irrelevant to my point? Historically larger companies who have failed to adapt to trends in work and in productivity lose their leader status in market share and get disrupted by companies that do.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

A zoom call to lay off 900 staff is safer than laying off 900 in person ( ie workplace violence or someone might go postal ).

Did they pass the “national greedy Hatchet man bill of rights” today?

 

[networkpro]

That's.... Irrelevant to my point? Historically larger companies who have failed to adapt to trends in work and in productivity lose their leader status in market share and get disrupted by companies that do.

History is it? Data from the BLS shows that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

History is it? Data from the BLS shows that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more.

Fine…but how does it disprove his point?

 

[networkpro]

Fine…but how does it disprove his point?

Being new, nimble, and innovative companies statistically equal failure 65% for 10 years, 75% for 15.

 

[mikejs78]

Being new, nimble, and innovative companies statistically equal failure 65% for 10 years, 75% for 15.

That has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

That has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.

Good…cause that’s not how I read it either

 

[AshaNeOmah]

Not always true. Outsourcing IT to India for cost savings, layoff of most company domestic IT and my friend who survived the layoff travels to India several times a year to check on third party team.

If you think I meant IT troubleshooting PC problems, it wasn't. That can definitely be outsourced.

I'm talking about employees with graduate degrees in engineering and science with jobs that require 15 years experience to even be considered.

Not your IT guy with a help desk certificate.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

A lot of coverage on this today…

Interesting