...many employees working for these skeptical managers have come to value a professional life that doesn’t involve long commutes synchronized to rigid hours.
Our pandemic experiment with remote work has reset our expectations about where and when work takes place.
The economy has changed radically. The problem with saying everybody has to work in the office is you won't be able to hire the best talent.
When we went out for financial services, people in our operating company, the best talent, told us, If I have to come into an office and sit in a cubicle and drive for 45 minutes each day into a war-torn city like San Francisco, which we were trying to hire in, I'm not doing it. I don't want to get shot on my way to work. I mean, this is another problem. Safety in large cities like Chicago, San Francisco, you know, some parts of New York City, L.A. these days, nobody wants to work in these places. They're war zones.
You can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely. Look at the success of France with their stupid… you know, off for August, blah blah blah. That’s not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?