6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled.
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@Natasha_Jay interesting research!
...but what about someone (like me?) who just likes to see other real humans in the same real world?
I've done "home-office" looong before that even became an official term. I wouldn't object remote work (love it) - but I also feel that seeing and meeting co-workers *for real* keeps me mentally happy, more productive and I enjoy my "together in the office" days!
️@p3ter @Natasha_Jay
I'm the same. But the answer to your question is easy:This says nothing about peoples own preferences, it only talks about what they demand of others. Everyone has different preferences, and we should respect that. This is about managers who don't respect that, because of their own egos.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
Working from home works
UBI works
Reduced length work weeks workThere’s absolutely no reason not to transition to these models, it’s just narcissistic leaders and their boot lickers standing in the way.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay This study appears to put into words what most of us have felt for years. It's not about any measurable metric or "team building," it's all about the boss.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay Truth. And the Air Force is full of them.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay @briankrebs No, duh! But also, nice to have the science to back it up…
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay old job went from 10% wfh to 90% wfh. but the answer is more simple. getting rid of workers
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs. I believe he names the desire of managers to have as many working *under them* as possible as one of the reasons for the preponderance of bullshit jobs. As an example of the inefficiencies of capitalism / why we don't work 30h/week.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
One Billion Office Workers: “Well, duh!”
Good to have some research to back up what we all instinctively knew.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay I had it explained to me in what I am assuming the person explaining it considered reasonable terms.
"He just likes to come in to the office and see his people working."
Like some fucking art piece or something.
I was going to take the job too thinking, "I work better at home, but if they want to pay me to be pretty that's fine too." They ended up being raging fucking assholes though and I was actually surprised
I can be stupid.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
This is erasure of all the non-narcissistic bosses who mandate RTO to see how many people they can get to quit.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay This title is golden.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay
1. People, who as leaders, object to remote work: Narcissists.2. People who like working around others: Extroverts.
3. People who like remote work: Introverts.
(I choose # 3.)
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@Natasha_Jay interesting research!
...but what about someone (like me?) who just likes to see other real humans in the same real world?
I've done "home-office" looong before that even became an official term. I wouldn't object remote work (love it) - but I also feel that seeing and meeting co-workers *for real* keeps me mentally happy, more productive and I enjoy my "together in the office" days!
️@p3ter @Natasha_Jay It should be completely voluntary.
What I experienced when it was, before the RTO mandate, was that the 10% of extroverts that actually went into the office kept complaining that "the office was so empty", giving an excuse to the narcissist(s) at the top to argue morale was low (it wasn't for 90% of the workforce), productivity was down (it was up 25%) and force everyone back.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
Not at all surprised. I worked in local government and the responses to the pandemic and later RTO varied widely between office and organizations. After a while you got a feel for which areas had a dysfunctional culture/leadership. Very much driven by the top.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay
I wish I had been able to post the link to this study in the all-staff Slack channel right before my last day at work.The president of the company, daughter of the founder, had ordered everyone back to office in late 2021.
Employees mostly worked in cubicles. I wore a mask all day. Her spacious office with a view was located down a hall, away from contagious employees.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@Natasha_Jay I have an employee that is a desktop support technician, he fixes your laptop when you bring it in, it’s not a role that can be done remotely. We have 100’s of employees that work in the field or remotely, but they need a place to bring their tech when they need help. Does that make me a narcissist?
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@Natasha_Jay Truth. And the Air Force is full of them.
I once worked on a project at SAC trying to eliminate tennis shoe transfers between machines back in the day. The generals were against it because they didn't want to lose their commands over the people who did the tape transfers.
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6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
I worked in a heavily unionized environment and union stewards, who are some of the most braggart people you will ever meet, were largely uninterested in remote work issues.
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@Natasha_Jay I have an employee that is a desktop support technician, he fixes your laptop when you bring it in, it’s not a role that can be done remotely. We have 100’s of employees that work in the field or remotely, but they need a place to bring their tech when they need help. Does that make me a narcissist?
@gunthr @Natasha_Jay By constructing this straw man, yeah probably.
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