Google Employees Dissatisfied With Return-to-Office Plan, Some Consider Other Jobs
Chen, R. (2022, March 16). Google Employees Dissatisfied With Return-to-Office Plan, Some Consider Other Jobs. Team Blind. https://www.teamblind.com/blog/index.php/2022/03/16/google-april-4-office-return-rto-plan-reaction/
Rick Chen writes: "Two out of three Google employees are dissatisfied with the internet giant’s plans to require many U.S. employees to work in the office about three days a week, according to a survey of 1,097 verified Google professionals in the U.S. from the professional social network Blind...Earlier this month, Google said it would adopt a hybrid work model, which would require many U.S. employees to return to the office three days a week beginning the week of April 4. Googlers would work from home two days a week but can request an exemption to continue working remotely full-time. Additionally, Google employees can choose to work from the office more than three days a week."
"Despite the general discontent with the return-to-office plan, fewer than one in three Google professionals (27%) said they planned to apply for permanent remote work. Only seven percent said they had already applied for an exemption to the return-to-office plans...There are some fears of a 'work-from-home pay cut.' Citing an internal tool available to employees to model potential pay adjustments based on location, some Google professionals explained that working remotely from another city, region or state could lead to a pay cut of as much as 25%. Others said their manager or organization’s leadership discouraged them from working remotely...The Google worker was also anxious about a potential 'bias' against employees who hope to continue working remotely...Remote work was one of the top responses provided by professionals in a recent survey about the “Great Resignation” from Blind that asked what one thing their current company could do to keep them at their company."
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(2022). Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work. Microsoft. PDF: https://ms-worklab.azureedge.net/files/reports/2022/pdf/2022_Work_Trend_Index_Annual_Report.pdf
Stanier, J., Li, M. & Anderson, J. (2022, March 16). What Great Hybrid Cultures Do Differently. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/03/what-great-hybrid-cultures-do-differently
Spataro, J. (2022, March 16). 5 Key Trends Leaders Need to Understand to Get Hybrid Right. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/03/5-key-trends-leaders-need-to-understand-to-get-hybrid-right
Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
Keegan, P. (2022, March 8). Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew. Bloomberg Businessweek. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/work-from-home-experts-in-demand-as-return-to-office-begins
Paul Keegan writes: "At least 70% of knowledge industry workers say they want a hybrid workplace, Neeley says, citing employee survey data, so offering such arrangements is becoming crucial to attracting and retaining talent as the trend of widespread job-quitting known as the 'Great Resignation' continues. And fully 20% of staff are what she calls 'remote natives' who’ve joined companies during the pandemic and expect to continue working from home, even once Covid-19 becomes endemic. That leads to a host of complex challenges: Should employees get to choose which days they come to the office? How do you coordinate schedules so the right people are in the same room at the same time? How do you ensure that managers don’t play favorites when scheduling or discriminate against remote workers when it comes to promotions and pay raises?"
"Among the experts, one of the biggest debates about remote work concerns productivity. Most employees say they’re more productive working from home, surveys show, but employers are divided on the question. In a 2015 study, Bloom showed that workers at a Chinese call center were 13% more productive when working from home, but Cappelli cautions that it’s not a typical office environment: 'In the U.S., I haven’t seen any consistent evidence that productivity is up or down.' ...While these questions are being fiercely debated, Bloom is convinced that the argument between in-person, all-remote, and hybrid has been settled. After talking to more than 300 companies over the past two years, he has reached some conclusions that confirm his decision to focus his energy on such a hot topic with enormous implications for the world economy. Allowing working from home not only increases productivity slightly, he contends, but markedly improves employee retention rates, giving organizations all the motivation they need to let employees log on. 'That battle is over,' he says. 'Hybrid won.'"
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Neeley, T. (2021). Remote work revolution : succeeding from anywhere. Harper Business. UTL Permalink: https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/14bjeso/alma991107126070906196; UTL eBook: https://utltoronto-overdrive-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/media/5558002
Ozimek, A. (n.d.). The New Geography of Remote Work. Upwork. https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/the-new-geography-of-remote-work
(n.d.). Economist Report: Remote Workers on the Move. Upwork. https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/economist-report-remote-workers-on-the-move
(2022, March 23). Back to work(place): As employers beckon, telecommuters grow more entrenched at home. Angus Reid Institute. https://angusreid.org/covid-19-pandemic-work-from-home-return-to-work/
(2021). Return to Workplace 2021 Global Survey. Ipsos. https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-07/Global%20Advisor%20-%20Return%20to%20Workplace%20Survey.pdf
Cuadra, D. (2022, March 15). Salary benchmarking: For remote teams, should pay be based on role or location? EBN. https://www.benefitnews.com/news/remote-global-workforce-and-salary-benchmarking
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