Another example of how the tide may be turning against 'traditional' office working practices comes in today's Guardian. Sir Cary Cooper, the professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School who first came up with the term 'presenteeism' in the mid-1990s describes employers avoiding hybrid working patterns in favour of 'five full days in the office' patterns as "dinosaurs of our age".
It follows last week's post about the new Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade, Jonathan Reynolds, ridiculing the “culture of presenteeism" and championing working from home
Cooper particularly highlighted Amazon's and various banks' recent decision to demand a full return to office-based work. Here's a snippet:
“If you value and trust people to get on with their job, and give them autonomy – and flexible work is one of those – they’ll work better, you’ll retain them, and they will be less likely to have a stress-related illness. If you micromanage, you won’t get productivity gains, and you won’t attract the next generation.”
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