Joe Procopio writes about return to the office mandates and the potential to backfire
The failure to buck the trend is the abysmal job market that he notes will eventually recover.
Joe Procopio, Chief Product Officer at Get Spiffy , which has Knoxville as one of its 30 city locations, is also Founder of teachingstartup.com. In one of his recent columns, he writes about the return to the office (RTO) movement and the fact that companies might just get what they did not want.
“But if we look at history, even recent history, a lot of companies that are mandating RTO now are writing the future resignation letters for their best employees, to be delivered the nanosecond the tech job market stops being the worst in history,” Procopio writes.
Noting that the job market was supposed to have recovered by now, he continues: “It hasn’t, and that has emboldened a lot of employers to lean into their leverage with their supply of scarce and valuable jobs. But the market will recover.
“When it does, the first questions that are going to need to be answered are:
- “Why am I on a Zoom with the person down the hall?”
- “Why can we only hire within a two-hour commute of some of the most expensive real estate in the country?”
- “Why am I wearing this three-piece suit with matching fedora and a pocket watch? I’m a database administrator.”
“Because when an employee has leverage, questions like that no longer make any sense. And the very same companies demanding RTO now will likely be forced to offer remote work again to compete for scare, valuable talent.
You can find his thoughts here.
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