“This meeting could have been an email” has reached its final boss.
It’s well known that most companies don’t really care about wasting their employees’ time for the false sense of productivity. What does that mean? Well, it means that even if companies know that they can save valuable time by turning some meetings into simple emails or allowing employees to work from home to avoid commute time, they still prefer to waste everyone’s time for the sake of false productivity.
“Let’s sit in this meeting room to discuss something that could have been a Slack message.” “You need to drive to work every day for over an hour just so you could sit on an office chair for 9 hours and do the same thing you could have done from the comfort of your own bed”, all so that your boss could see your pretty face and pretend like they actually know what you’re doing all day.
If companies truly cared about productivity and getting work done, we know for a fact that employees would be much happier in the workplace, mostly because their workplaces would be their homes. Unless there is an actual, valid reason for someone to leave their house to work, say, they work as a pizza delivery person, working from home is just as good, if not better, for the company and the worker alike.
The employee who shared the story below on r/jobs is dealing with a company that has taken the demand to return to the office to the next level. Not only are they forced to work from an office after cancelling remote work, but what they end up doing in the office makes no sense whatsoever. Why make your employee arrive at the office, only for them to hop on a Zoom call with the people who are already physically there, and stare at each other’s faces through a screen while sitting five feet apart from each other?
We hit a new low, folks.
Author: Kayitsi.com
