This is all good advice, and I agree that workers have little choice in the RTO equation. Seems like some industries (like wind) had this all figured out years ago and those that can’t figure it out now have a lot of things to figure out, internally and customer-facing as well. Some pressure to allow remote work will certainly come from the industries that have it “figured out,” because they also depend on people and services from RTO mandate companies - and if the RTO employers have lots of churn and unhappy employees, it’ll show.
The churn is real. Service industries are typically the first to show decline due to churn. But others eventually follow. Wind is unique in that the work culture trends towards Northern Europe where flexibility is encouraged. The US and many other non-European countries don't tend to have much flexibility by comparison. This all leads to 2025 being very turbulent for employers and employees.
Some big studies (in EU) in the past year or two showed that flexibility fosters greater productivity rather than reducing it. Hope more companies figure that out!
This is all good advice, and I agree that workers have little choice in the RTO equation. Seems like some industries (like wind) had this all figured out years ago and those that can’t figure it out now have a lot of things to figure out, internally and customer-facing as well. Some pressure to allow remote work will certainly come from the industries that have it “figured out,” because they also depend on people and services from RTO mandate companies - and if the RTO employers have lots of churn and unhappy employees, it’ll show.
The churn is real. Service industries are typically the first to show decline due to churn. But others eventually follow. Wind is unique in that the work culture trends towards Northern Europe where flexibility is encouraged. The US and many other non-European countries don't tend to have much flexibility by comparison. This all leads to 2025 being very turbulent for employers and employees.
Some big studies (in EU) in the past year or two showed that flexibility fosters greater productivity rather than reducing it. Hope more companies figure that out!