When large companies order their remote workers back to the office, they typically say the collaboration and camaraderie found in a traditional workplace is better for productivity and profitability. But is it?
A study by the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh of 137 S&P 500 companies that enforced strict return-to-office policies found “there were no significant changes in profitability” for these firms. The study said its “empirical analysis” of the data indicates that companies actually didn’t believe a return to the office would increase productivity but that managers were using the mandates “to reassert control over employees.”
The study also found that while a company’s profitability and stock market price didn’t improve, there was a “significant decline in employee job satisfaction.”
Back to office: Alnaturas nachhaltiger Campus in Darmstadt
“Die Idee war und ist es, zu zeigen, dass wir in unserer offenen Gesellschaft ein Unternehmen entwickeln können, das konsequent nachhaltig ist. Es war der Anspruc, das nachhaltigste Bürogebäude in Deutschland hinzubekommen.” Prof. Dr. Götz E. Rehn, Gründer und Geschäftsführer von alnatura.
Auf einem 55.000 Quadratmeter großen Gelände entstand die klimaneutrale Alnatura Arbeitswelt. Sie ist…
Even Zoom is making its staff return to the office
New York CNN — Zoom, the company that powered the remote work revolution during the pandemic, is telling its employees to come back to the office.
In a statement, Zoom said it’s now enforcing a “structured hybrid approach,” meaning that employees who live near an office “need to be onsite two days a week” because it’s “most effective” for the video-conferencing service.
“As a company, we are in…