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Businesses are eager to get employees back to the office with the end of the pandemic now (hopefully) in sight. But some corporate bosses may pay a price for failing to communicate plans clearly to workers and otherwise bungling the transition from the world of remote work and Zoom calls to open-plan offices and conference room meetings.
That’s a key finding of recent research by Kimberly Merriman, David Greenway and Tamara Montag-Smit, management scholars at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. They reviewed over 100 lengthy worker posts on Reddit about how their employers were handling the return to the office. Many workers said they were fed up with the confusing remote work policies, corporate culture “BS” and broken promises that accompanied corporate plans for a post-pandemic office.
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Bryan Keogh
Senior Editor, Economy + Business
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Some workers aren’t that excited about a return to the office.
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Kimberly Merriman, University of Massachusetts Lowell; David Greenway, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Tamara Montag-Smit, University of Massachusetts Lowell
A divide is growing between workers and management over the return to the office and other issues.
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Politics + Society
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Constance Shehan, University of Florida
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Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service
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Ethics + Religion
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Christopher Robertson, Boston University
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Environment + Energy
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Kristopher Karnauskas, University of Colorado Boulder
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Science + Technology
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Darby Saxbe, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Alyssa Morris, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Education
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Aja D. Reynolds, Wayne State University
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Health
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Madelien Wooding, University of Pretoria; Yvette Naudé, University of Pretoria
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Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University; Dorothy Chin, University of California, Los Angeles; Elizabeth J King, University of Michigan; Elize Massard da Fonseca, Fundação Getulio Vargas; Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas; Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan
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Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University
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