Callum Borchers

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Some Companies Now View Remote Work as a Liability · 24 Mar 2023 podcast

And he said the team was up in arms. matched

People did not like that idea. matched

So he's basically made a deal where he said, all right, we'll do three days in the office and I'll preserve two work from home days. matched

And I'll even throw in a third one over the summer if you can keep it. matched

But you got to show me the productivity doesn't drop off. matched

And so this experiment has been going on for a while. matched

And unfortunately, what he reports to me is that when it comes to signing up new subscribers for their software and HR management service, it's common to see a 30% dip on the days when everybody is at home. matched

So right now, he's looking at the numbers and saying, this isn't working really well, and it's kind of confirming my suspicions. matched

It may not. matched

I said to him, Alan, so what are the chances here that you're actually going to get these summer Fridays at home? matched

And he said, well, I don't want to preempt anything I would say to the team. matched

So he wouldn't tell me what the timeline is. matched

I take it there's maybe a little bit more of an improvement period, a little more runway. matched

It is still just March. matched

But I think that, you know, come summer, if folks want to be working from home on Fridays, they really need to crank up the effort. matched

I think one of the things that I heard from managers was it really is kind of an effort issue in their minds. matched

And they feel like people had maximum effort at the height of the pandemic, partly because it was this sort of acute moment. matched

It was a global crisis. matched

A lot of companies were failing. matched

That was sort of a special lightning in a bottle thing is the way Mr. Jones put it to me. matched

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