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2024 Work Trends: Return to Office, Sneaky Layoffs and are MBAs Worth it?
23 Dec 2024
Episode 480: Kyle Hagge and Kaila Lopez join Neal and Toby and discuss the year in work trends. What is the latest of return to office mandates? How will AI impact work? Should you even get an MBA at this point? All of that and more in the first ever MBD x PMLE crossover! Listen to Per My Last Email here: https://www.permylastemailshow.com/ Follow Per My Last Email on social! X: https://x.com/permylast_email Instagram: https://instagram.com/permylastemailshow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@permylastemailshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@permylastemailshow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/per-my-last-email/
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Good Morning Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, we are joined by Morning Brew's workplace whisperers and host of the Per My Last Email podcast, Kyle Hagee and Kayla Lopez.
Kyle and Kayla join us to break down the biggest workplace stories of this year and the next. It's Monday, December 23rd. Let's ride. Let's ride. Kyle and Kayla, welcome to the show. Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. Just real quick before we dive in, can you give our listeners a quick explanation of who might enjoy or who might find useful your show per my last email?
Well, obviously everyone would love the show, but early to mid-career professionals looking to level up in their career, they want help navigating some of the thorniest work-life scenarios per my last email of the show for them.
Sweet. So let's dive into some of those issues and begin with what's expected to be the number one workplace battle of 2025, return to office.
Yes, it feels like we've been talking about the end of remote work for years now, but the push to bring workers back to the office ramped up in a big way in September when one of the nation's largest companies, Amazon, said it would require employees to work from the office five days a week.
Meanwhile, Starbucks said starting next year, it'll begin actually enforcing its hybrid work policy that requires employees to commute three days a week. Many see ulterior motives by these companies here, namely something called backdoor layoffs. The theory goes Amazon, Starbucks and other companies cracking down on remote work.
think they have too many employees, but instead of going through the grueling process of laying people off themselves, they're mandating return to office to accomplish the same thing because they know angry employees who love their work-from-home setup will just voluntarily quit. Kyle and Kayla, do you think there's any validity to this backdoor layoff concept?
And more broadly, how do you see the remote work battle lines being drawn in 2025?
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