> Executives who are pushing employees to come back to the office are most likely to succeed if they can make a convincing case for why coming back to the office benefits employees and the organisation. The typical explanation that coming back to the office is important for the culture of the organisation is unfounded at best, and hogwash at worse.
Maybe big organizations are bad at communicating RTO reasons, but isn’t it pretty obvious to everyone who has done both that the biggest advantage of working in person is high-bandwidth communication? I feel like the quality and quantity of information exchanged with my colleagues is much higher on days we work in person than remote. There’s a reason why even fully remote companies usually do some sort of recurring offsite.
That’s not to say that the benefits of RTO always outweigh the costs, but I find the trope that RTO is just some pointy-haired boss whim to be silly.
Maybe big organizations are bad at communicating RTO reasons, but isn’t it pretty obvious to everyone who has done both that the biggest advantage of working in person is high-bandwidth communication? I feel like the quality and quantity of information exchanged with my colleagues is much higher on days we work in person than remote. There’s a reason why even fully remote companies usually do some sort of recurring offsite.
That’s not to say that the benefits of RTO always outweigh the costs, but I find the trope that RTO is just some pointy-haired boss whim to be silly.