In the ongoing return-to-office battle, showing up to your desk is becoming a performance metric – just like it was in grade school.

Google and JPMorgan have each told staff that office attendance will be factored into performance evaluations. The US law firm Davis Polk informed employees that fewer days in the office would result in lower bonuses. And Meta and Amazon both told employees they’re now monitoring badge swipes, with potential consequences for workers who don’t comply with attendance policies – including job loss. Increasingly, workers across many jobs and sectors appear to be barrelling towards the same fate.

In some ways, it’s unsurprising bosses are turning back to attendance as a standard. After all, we’ve long been conditioned to believe showing up is vital to success, from some of our earliest days. In school, perfect attendance is often still seen a badge of honour. The obsession with attendance has also been a mainstay of workplace culture for decades; pre-pandemic, remote work was largely unheard of, and employees were expected to be physically present at their desks throughout the workday.

Yet after the success of flexible arrangements during the pandemic, attendance is still entrenched as a core metric. What’s the point?

    • @SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      0•1 year ago

      Neoliberalism is trickle down. It’s believing that tax cuts benefit society more than collectively investing in that society, usually in direct opposition to any actual tabulated, factual data.

      If you don’t remember the world before January 1981, and you live in a western nation, than you havent experienced anything other than neoliberalism.

      Nixon was more of a leftist than Clinton or Obama. All we’ve known is the Center-right (Democrats) and the right/far-right.

      Conservativism is dead in America. You’re average conservative now would look at Dubya’s “Compassionate Conservativism” push for Medicare Part D and shriek until their owners finally came and put them into bed.

            • @SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
              1•1 year ago

              Here ya go fuckface. Read this. Just this one study, done by professionals, discussing how neoliberalism effects attitudes towards government and the self and the responsibilities, and abdication of therein.

              Unless you thrive on being wrong, I mean, then keep doin what you’re doing.

              There’s no shame in being wrong either. But there’s a ton of shame in STAYING wrong.

              Idgaf if you change your mind, this is the internet, I posted this for your benefit alone.

              Good luck to you.

              https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605858/#:~:text=Neoliberal ideology is linked to,esteem%2C and self-reliance.

              Post script

              Y’know, after chewing on yr comments for a min I think I’ve identified the confusion.

              Neo-liberalism is economic theory. It is not part of our “liberal-conservative” false dichotomy the media propagates. That’s propaganda to divide us poors from blaming those responsible for our problems. Neo-liberalism is a reactionary set of policies put forth from Milton Friedman from the University of Chicago to undercut Keynesian economics (The New Deal, a type of social democracy). Pinochet (the murdering dictator) was the first NeoLiberal leader in Chile, followed by Reagan and Thatcher over in the UK.

              Every single president since Reagan has been neoliberal. Both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden. All of them.

              Neoliberalism has been nothing but destructive towards not only our middle and working class, but to our infrastructure and social institutions themselves. Boomers, the most invested in generation, benefitted from the free or next to free college, $2000 houses and high paying jobs then took all that from millennials and Gen Z instead saddling us with debt. Their debt. When future promises are factored in America is 200 trillion in the red. TWO HUNDRED TRILLION.

              That’s what trickled down. And it’s going to end the country, just watch. #eattherich

              For context, the entire planets GDP is 95trillion. We are over 10 times our annual GDP.

              Britain after ww2, had debt levels of 270% their output, close to where we are now. Theyve pulled out of it, on paper. Living conditions in the UK have been declining for 50 years and they’re STILL paying off that debt today. There’s ONE example of a nation not collapsing under that weight, and it was bouyed by us. You think China is gonna bouy us or you think China is gonna take Hawaii? Cuz whoever controls Pearl Harbor controls the Northern Pacific, and that’s 1/4 of the globe.