I mean, yeah, we all know this is all about the boot being on the backs of the workers but it’s always nice to have someone smarter explain it with fancy words. But lemme dumb it down for you if you are not fluent in Academia Speak, “Your boss is a dick and blaming you for being shitty at their job.” I can also speak Corpo and Skater speak.
“Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, we examine determinants and consequences of U.S. firms’ return-to-office (RTO) mandates,” said researchers from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. The study found that managers use RTO mandates “to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat,” and concluded that “we do not find significant changes in firm performance in terms of profitability and stock market valuation after the RTO mandates.”