The Toxicity of Today's Business Office
Has your office an incredibly unbearable place to work? If so, do not feel alone. Some will say it, most will not in fear of reprisals. As most of you know, I run my own business (resume writing and LinkedIn profile writing) so I am not afraid to speak the truth, providing perspective to those who need to hear the thoughts of a neutral third party. I will be providing objective thoughts that I hope will help you get through the craziness.
I will be posting about this subject for the remainder of the week and all of next week. Stay tuned - I will have some good content for you to mull.
Frankly, this has been happening for some time by the "Titans of Technology" (Zuckerberg and Benioff as well as others) set the tone when in the Spring of 2020, they told employees what a wonderful job they were doing in the face of change from in-house to work from home (WFH). They said that everybody was doing such a great job that they could work remotely forever. That was crap and they knew it. Productivity was never great and too much $$$ invested in real estate holdings made this HIGHLY improbably.
What they should have said is the following:
"All of you have been incredibly collaborative and diligent during this unprecedented era in world history. I applaud your efforts and we will revisit the working environment in 90 days".
That would have been a key step to managing expectations. It would have stopped most workers from relocating to new regions (often less expensive) since they would not have to be in the office any longer.
More tomorrow.
