06/10/2022
As far as the office is concerned "For the times they are a-changin'" Bob Dylan
Annie --
Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager.
In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.
When millions of office employees started working from home in 2020, the plan for most was eventually to return to work, not stay remote forever.
But two and a half years later, many workers really don’t want to go back to the office, and companies are struggling to figure out how to convince them to return, offering enticements like free food, prizes, and even alcoholic beverages to draw workers back.
Some companies are getting more creative than that, as this person who wrote to me recounts..GO to Article...
The ploys are getting increasingly desperate.