Wenn "employee engagement" das Ziel ist, dann sind 5 Tage die Woche Büro-Pflicht Gift. Diese Erkenntnisse aus der neuen #Gallup Forschung passen nicht zur aktuellen Argumentation vieler Organisationen. #RTO #hybrid #Wissensarbeit #Wissensmanagement #Homeoffice
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Five days a week in the office degrades culture. If your company #culture depends on employee engagement, five day a week #RTO mandates will only make things worse, based on Gallup research. The data shows that #engagement is lowest for fully on-site employees. We saw the same in Future Forum research: #hybrid and fully #remote employees both do far better. Back in 2019, there wasn't much difference between the groups. After 2020, if your job can be done remotely but you're not allowed any flexibility, engagement drops. The lost of #trust is visible in the data. Hard to build engagement when trust is lost, and that also degrades #productivity. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and Slack data shows that trust is the key to high performance: people go the extra mile if they feel supported and trusted at work. Most people want some regular time together with their team. They get the benefits of 2-3 days a week, or a week of the month/quarter for more distributed teams. They want solutions set at the function and team level that make sense for their work, and how they're distributed. Employees understand that mandates to be back in the office five days a week aren't about #culture, they're about monitoring. They also know that those mandates drive turnover. Firms who had large layoffs -- like big tech, financial services, and media -- are also most likely to follow up with the harshest RTO mandates (sorry to my friends at The Washington Post). Culture doesn't just happen in offices. Culture isn't primarily about the office setup, All Hands, social events and coffee conversations. #Culture is more determined by what gets rewarded and what's valued by an organization shows up in how you treat people. 🔗 Links in comments to Gallup's survey, and an interview with FlexOS on culture. What's your take? #ReturnToOffice