4. Return to Office: Real Issue or Handy Distraction?
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Feb 19, 2024
The podcast delves into the heated debate surrounding the return-to-office policies, highlighting the superficiality of the issue. It raises important questions about productivity, strategy, trust in employees, and team alignment. The hosts explore why the focus on office return masks deeper organizational problems and offer insights on breaking free from this cycle.
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RTO as a Proxy Battle
The RTO debate is a proxy battle for deeper organizational issues.
These include clarity, trust, productivity, and communication.
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Social Creatures, Not Office Dwellers
Humans are social and benefit from shared workspaces.
However, this doesn't necessitate a full-time return to the office.
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Binary Thinking Trap
The RTO debate is often framed as a binary choice.
This oversimplification prevents real solutions and fuels the persistent argument.
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You can’t throw a stone on LinkedIn without hitting at least one post about return-to-office policies. From CEOs to employees, from thought leaders to maybe even your mayor, everyone is taking a side, doubling down, and yelling into the void as loud as they can. Where people work is being treated as the most important issue—the existential sea change that will either make or break a company.
In reality, the RTO debate is the superficial fight we have instead of addressing the deeper, tougher, and way more complex issues that really matter (think questions around purpose, trust, "productivity", and communication). And here’s a fun fact: You can’t work well anywhere (in person or remotely) if confusion and misalignment is swirling around your company.
In this week’s episode of At Work With The Ready, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack why we’re still debating where people work, what that obsession costs our organizations, and how to start breaking free of the cycle.
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