They already studied this. Working in office comes with water cooler talk, attempts to appear busy, lunch breaks, less work hours logged, etc.

People are sick and tired of being around narcissistic behavior and gas lighters at the work place.

I’m SO GLAD I quit my job, and retired early!!! Hallelujah!!!

Commute time is work time. It takes 2 hrs to commute to an office.

Why hire someone if you don't trust them? I'm fascinated by this. You work constantly without distractions remotely.

When persons were able to show their productivity remotely, while managing their homes and other activities, they grew accustomed to balancing their lives this way. Now these persons are being told to report for duty on time after, what can be, a long commute; having to interact with co-workers who can carry on distracting conversations or hold unnecessary in-person meetings; being expected to work within a time period of 8, 9 or 10 hours with an official start and end time rather than working a little more leisurely around their personal life. All of these things matter to an employee, and make or break their productivity. I feel management is having a hard time selling the idea that the only way productivity can be good is if the employee shows up to a building every day...we saw that it wasn't necessary for so long...why not leave well enough alone?

Maybe low productiivity is a form of silent protest of being back in the office. Maybe people are working less hours in the office whereas at home, they are willing to put in extra hours for due to the convenience. Also, forcing people back in the office will result in people leaving for jobs that allow for working from home.

I hope managers realize that workers control productivity. If workers aren't happy or comfortable, productivity plunges. This is case in point.

The distractions and issues at home are easier to manage/remove and less variable than those at work. At home, you can weed that stuff out and prioritize at your own pace. At work, they tend to be pushed off and pile up. More stress tends to mean less productivity. Guess where you have less power to deal with stressors?

Ive been paying rent online directly from my bank for several years! This is nothing new and absolutely NOTHING to worry about. Do your research.....

There are way more distractions at offices.

Back in 1980 my co-worker and I came in early to a temporary position, due to commute being to our advantage. We got MORE DONE in the two hours (7 - 9 a.m.) than the ENTIRE day, as we were constantly interrupted. Now ADD CELL PHONES. Co-workers don't plan or INFORM you as it's "all about them" and "in the moment". Well, how about letting me know so I have two/three days or weeks to FIND supplies and get the supply chain infor.?? No. Management even on your own level think they" don't answer to you" so again, you're on the receiving end of their stupidity. THEN you have to save them..........from themselves.

As the recession continues, companies who insist on “work from work” will be “out of business”.

I've worked remote since 2015 you do so much more work from home than you do in an office where your coworkers are chit-chatting hanging out at the water cooler you go get brakes you don't get breaks when you're working remote these idiots that think they need to micromanage you for you to be productive or failures they got trust issues because they're liars and cheaters not because everyone is IMHO

My commute is 1 hour. 2 hours a day doing nothing of value for the days they force me to be in the office.

My building had a free online rental payment system and then went to the chase online system (Hollywood,CA) and the surcharge is $4. People went CRAZY and just went back to paper checks🤣.

Working in an office is just a way to control employees regardless of productivity.

Productivity is a function of output, and labor hours put in. If management decides to reduce inventory output (because of an expected recession), with the same number of workers, than the productivity % will decrease. So perhaps the productivity drop has nothing to do with back to the office. It probably has more to do with management decisions and the evolving economic landscape. Unfortunately, to right the ship, companies will begin laying off people, to get the productivity equation back up.

Let people work where they are most productive

Executive management across many industries have changed the way employees are evaluated. They basically have said no one "exceeds expectations", exceeding expectations is expected and as such compensation awards are smaller for employees who routinely went above and beyond. So basically employers created this "productivity" drop. The are doing this because of a handful of articles in executive management magazines. The goal is to create a "bell" curve for employee evaluation scores, to reduce labor costs and increase profit and compensation for executives. Some kind of psychosis has taken over management. Regardless of where the employees are working. It is called the "bell curve approach" or "forced ranking" to worker evaluations. Look it up...it is all the rage with "C" leaders.

Forcing employees to work from office is a very toxic behaviour of the management. It's is waste of time, money, energy along with emotional weakness ( who stays away from family) . This decision in the name of hybrid work is killing people from inside. No friends, coworker can support you the way family supports a person emotionally and mentally and lack of these support will surely bring down the productivity.

Those that feel distracted at home can go to office....those who feel they can work better at home can work at home.....No need to force anyone.......

Make sense , I used to spend my day taking to people, walking getting up . Couldnt focus with people coming to my desk .

It's down, and in my case, when I go to the office I do nothing but sit with a migraine. Then I make up the work on the weekend because of deadlines.

The productivity maybe down for fresh employees but its not down for experienced employees.

Employees are seeing how redundant their manager’s position is and are lowering their own work ethic.

Offices are locations for politics, gossip toxic culture, and waste of time (because of commute)....These are the locations where people who do not have their own any life of their own rush to......

oh and this report reminds me of why i never bought a ford (and never will) !!! WTF??? 😳 🤬

Because people weren’t interrupting you

Yup, i heard what i expected, i.e., it is the supervisors responsibility to make a work environment that makes workers happy. After all, the way people are educated today, they are used to getting awards for just showing up so why should they actually have to motivate themselves to work hard to succeed once they get a job? Next they will blame some kind of systemic something or other for their failure. If what i said makes you unhappy, just blame it all on Trump which will surely give you an endorphin rush.

Ofc productivity plunges. People have to waste time in commute while driving to office ffs.

i am old school so call me an idiot , but the only incentive i needed to work was a paycheck

🤔......idk? Maybe I should try again to take some courses from here?

Hmm maybe were sick of the bs expenses we have to pay for fuel and food.

I will give you one word. Commute

Managers better do their job. Sick of employees always be the one to blame

Nice to be careful about your rent payments. However, some landlords aren't giving their tenants an option. You either pay online or get evicted. That doesn't seem right; but then there's another lawsuit.

Sounds like a directive question, kind of like saying is this the correct way for a beaver to build a damn. Interesting thought to put in the atmosphere of worry. It’s like a rain 💧 drop that caused a flood. Tsunami 🌊 😓… paused at 4:30🤒👿🤬🥲hello. Air traffic control. One statement can be overwhelming because it’s so many thoughts within those “marks”. Like the “lines” next to the comments after you add a comment. To the right , actually.

I’ve been working remotely from home since March 2020 and I can’t be around people any more, my anxiety is high when I’m around alot of people, I almost had a panic attack at a carnival

Take a severance package and buy the dip ❤

We can all see how comfort levels correlate with production.

Inflation

Lmao, I would go through the retraining and then purposely under perform to be laid off, take severance, waste company time, and then take unemployment if necessary to look for a new job. Don’t play with me.

Let us work at home !!!

Lol Ford got put on blast. I bet ford was like "that's what we always have done, heck we just used to fire". Pathetic lol

office space syndrome becomes reality

DUH. everybody who *can* work from home should be given the option. this is a no-brainer; no further ‘studies’ needed. this is common practical sense.

Maybe its the pay🤷

Unfortunately, managers tend to distrust their employees.

Working sucks you make just enough to survive just existing

All the time you save commuting and all the money saved it's no brainer people work better from home in some industries.

Indeed. I’d never go back to the office again. Working from home only, baby!!!

It's hard when you're boss keeps coming around and breathes down your neck. Also people talk more at work.

Who wants to drive in orange county. The roads are horrible. The drivers are dumb. They make very dangerous decisions and put others in risk. All to go to work? Every morning and afternoon?

they gonna OUTSOURCE your job soon. stay home haha

Hell yes

I found this news report as a great example of productivity down 😅 good job on leading ktla

I went to the ice cream place down the road yesterday to get a malt shake and the woman Manger said they were closed nobody showed up to work

If you’re logic for less production is because you socialized at work too much, you should’ve been fired a long time ago.

As a proud black American father of 2 sons we need to hold ourselves accountable for all the looting stealing and robbing people shooting people we need to teach family values and respect ✊🏿

You can't force people to work or be productive. You pissed off people by forcing them to go back to the office - this is the result so live with it...

Lazy

duh

This is a crock of $hit. People working from home were useless when called. They had kids screaming in the back, never sent emails, never called back. This is more government trying to encourage people to be in their homes. More people work when they’re at work. Period.

Aww as someone who does real work in person I feel so bad for you remote workers, psyche. I was kidding. Get back to work people.

I hope the people keep fighting the corporate/commercial forces by NOT going above and beyond. The demand never stops, so no matter what they will always take more and more than you can ever produce for them. This is an actual way to help combat business forces.

You cant tell me people work more from home , in their pj's with no one watching! I call BS!