Well, Ain't That a F%$# You

Like many firms, Dell has been pushing to get its employees back into the office.

They recently announced that if employees do not return to the office at least 3 days a week, they will not be eligible for promotions or to apply for different jobs at the PC manufacturer.

The response of ½ of those remoter workers has been to tell Michael Dell to go Cheney himself:

Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent report, computer-maker Dell has stumbled even more than most.

Dell announced a new return-to-office initiative earlier this year. In the new plan, workers had to classify themselves as remote or hybrid.

Those who classified themselves as hybrid are subject to a tracking system that ensures they are in a physical office 39 days a quarter, which works out to close to three days per work week.

Alternatively, by classifying themselves as remote, workers agree they can no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the company.

Business Insider claims it has seen internal Dell tracking data that reveals nearly 50 percent of the workforce opted to accept the consequences of staying remote, undermining Dell's plan to restore its in-office culture.

The publication spoke with a dozen Dell employees to hear their stories as to why they chose to stay remote, and a variety of reasons came up. Some said they enjoyed more free time and less strain on their finances after going remote, and nothing could convince them to give that up now. Others said their local offices had closed since the pandemic or that they weren't interested in promotions.

Others still noted that it seemed pointless to go in to an in-person office when the teams they worked on were already distributed across multiple offices around the world, so they'd mostly still be on Zoom calls anyway.

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Many interviewed admitted they were looking for work at other companies that aren't trying to corral employees back into the office.

The pandemic has engendered a major change in the relationship between employers and employers.

Employees have come to the realization that sacrificing their finances and well being for the demands of an employer are a sucker bet.

I don't think that we will see a return to the attitudes of the before times.  Companies have been sucking the marrow out of residual employee loyalty for over 40 years, but that well is empty.