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Five days a week in the office? Forget it
Once more, companies want butts in seats — even though there's no legitimate business reason for many employees to return to the office.
I found it only increased clique-building; allowed extroverts to claim credit for introverts, women, and minority groups’ work; and led to more middle-management yes-men. After all, if new Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol can report to the company’s Seattle headquarters three times a week using the corporate jet to fly to the office from his home in Newport Beach, CA, I’m sure Amazon’s lord high mucky-mucks can make it in as well. AWS isn’t the only company that wants things to return to the good, old days when middle managers could justify their existence by watching who was spending too much time in the breakroom.
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