alt Hacker NewsCan I ask how your orgs measured productivity before and after remote work/RTO? I agree that employees would have a much easier time accepting RTO if they were given hard evidence it makes the business more productive, but it seems like almost all companies don’t do this and simply justify RTO “because we know best” which frustrates ICs.
Sometimes there a track record of output to reference on. Project velocity. There’s a lot and I probably work in industries that aren’t comparable to yours so no use getting specific. Sometimes it’s just a hard thing for ICs to look at the whole operation instead of their part. The fact ICs think productivity is the most important thing they can provide is a signal they’re wrong (in the eyes of a leadership team).
The management team doesn't want it to be up for discussion, and doesn’t want to create wfh subclasses of employees, which is what data would lead to.