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Written by 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 on 2024-09-23 at 04:15

𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜­𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬

𝖤𝗆𝗆𝖺 𝖩𝖺𝖼­𝗈𝖻𝗌 - 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌

Remem­ber the good old days? When office cor­ridors buzzed with the sound of ideas boun­cing between senior exec­ut­ives and junior recruits? And the kit­chens! New products con­ceived in the time it took for the kettle to boil. Not to men­tion all that learn­ing. In the past, a new starter only had to sit within five yards of an exper­i­enced col­league to absorb the entire con­tents of their brain.

Such pre-pan­demic nos­tal­gia infused the vis­ion laid out last week by Andy Jassy, chief exec­ut­ive of retailer Amazon, who ordered a full-time return to the office (RTO). In a memo, he said the move would make it easier for staff to “learn, model, prac­tice”. It would also “strengthen our cul­ture” while mak­ing things like brain­storm­ing “sim­pler and more effect­ive”.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281844354034491

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Toot

Written by 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 on 2024-09-23 at 04:16

I don’t want to rain on any­one’s rose­hued parade. But in ancient times — five years ago — employ­ees would also bitch about silos, poor train­ing and pro­ductiv­ity. Remem­ber offices on Fri­days? No, me neither. about off-site meet­ings because headquar­ters was too stul­ti­fy­ing to pro­duce new ideas? Sadly, yes.

Of course, com­ing together in the work­place can spur con­nec­tions, innov­a­tion and learn­ing. But let’s not get car­ried away. The office is not the solu­tion to every work­place prob­lem.

However, some seem to think it is — even if that view is not backed up by evid­ence. In her new book, Over Work, Bri­gid Schulte describes a lead­er­ship “echo cham­ber”. One expert tells her their team “was actu­ally more pro­duct­ive” when work­ing flex­ibly “not just in terms of hours worked, but lit­er­ally in out­put”. They can read­ily demon­strate this to the CEO, but “can’t get them to listen because instead they’re listen­ing to their fel­low CEOs”. …

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