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The whole memo just reeks of not trusting your employees.




These memos are always basically admissions of their own incompetence. If you distrust your employees this much and have created a culture where people aren't getting their work done without it being noticed, that's on you.

Isn't it a "we want to reduce our workforce but we don't want to pay redundancies, so we're hoping many of you leave 'voluntarily'.".

A lot of the anti WFH wave comes from companies discovering that they actually can't trust some employees to do much work from home.

> A lot of the anti WFH wave comes from companies discovering that they actually can't trust some employees to do much work from home.

Personally, I think a lot of the anti WFH types thrive in an office environment because either charitably, they get energy from being around people and work better, or less charitably, it helps them build their careers because they're great at being noticed in that environment.

In the charitable case, that's great for them, but could be harmful to WFH types, who thrive when they can work remotely and their focus times click more easily (for various reasons).

In the less charitable case, (which I suspect is a lot of people who are passionately anti-WFH), well, this needs no real explanation. They're just being selfish for their own career.


As others have stated, it’s the same people who didn’t do much work in the office either.

Well I don't trust my employer so...



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