CIO: Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot

https://www.cio.com/article/4119562/work-from-office-mandate-expect-top-talent-turnover-culture-rot.html

by dmitrygr • 6 months ago

29 12 6 months ago

lovich• 6 months ago

Why would the leaders care?

It’s currently a buyers market for employees, they can flex as much as they want and desperate people will still flock to them.

The RTO mandates were not done with productivity in mind.

alephnerd• 6 months ago

It's 2026.

If you are truly exceptional, you will get a WFH allowance in most organizations - that said, most developers are not.

If you want to be remote-first you will have to become mission critical, otherwise it is hard to justify not hiring someone in India, Israel, or Poland remotely.

Rodeoclash2• 6 months ago

The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

pratchett• 6 months ago

How do you justify this assertion of yours? I would contend that the most efficient method is written down and shared widely in a doc. Otherwise, everyone is relying on their memory of what was spoken. For anything non trivial, I would want it written down.

Rodeoclash2• 6 months ago

It's one of the 12 principles of the original Agile manifesto.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

pvab3• 6 months ago

speak for yourself

aeternum• 6 months ago

Did you remember to consider commute times, context-switching costs, office overhead and facilities staff overhead in your efficiency calculation?

andOlga2• 6 months ago

Reading is significantly faster than listening. Writing is significantly more precise than speaking. You're gonna have to write information down so that it's not lost anyway.

zwaps• 6 months ago

Yes however speaking allows flexibility in communication, dynamics that text does not support and, crucial if there is no alignment, nonverbal communication.

It is much much easier to build trust in person, which is important for efficient teams.

In the end, both modes have pros and cons, but there is indeed a lot of research indicating remote teamwork is much more challenging on many dimensions

hackable_sand• 6 months ago

Beep boop

Now initiating information transfer protocol

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Please acknowledge receipt

fred_is_fred• 6 months ago

These moves are always about getting people to quit and nothing else.

CIO: Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot

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