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WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" (ody.sh)
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This leaked today from inside webmd, the most bullshit corpo HR video I think I've ever seen.

To break down the obvious ones:

  • Employees who are obviously either drinking wayyy too much company koolaid or who know that their jobs will end if they aren't in this video
  • An extremely out of touch CEO who wants things back the old way without giving any concrete data proving that it's better beyond conjecture
  • A company with "internet" in the name who literally doesn't understand the concept of the internet
  • Threatening and bullying language to force people back in office.
  • and just a nice touch, the office is of course not near mass transit or anything and requires driving in
  • Did anyone notice they were all on green screen, kinda proving that there was no need for them to be in person?
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[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Beyond self-reports and perception-based outcomes, most extant studies that I'm aware of have found decreases in real output. For example, a randomized controlled trial published by the NBER found that productivity of employees randomly assigned to work from home was 18% lower than employees randomly assigned to work in the office:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515

Another study found that output decreased by around 13% when employees worked from home, even though hours worked increased:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/721803

Cognitive performance may also decline in remote settings:

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1218/6445994

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cognitive performance may also decline in remote settings:

Your claim is you're stupider when you work from home? And you're basing that off of online chess tournaments?

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, it isn't; performance != ability, and it's not clear that cognitive performance declines at all--hence the word "may."

My claim is that

Cognitive performance may also decline in remote settings

Nothing more.

[–] Chefdano3@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

So your claim is pure speculation and has no real merit. Yes, I agree.