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Aetna Lost $1 Billion Last Quarter By Forbidding Employees to Work from Home
The insurance giant learns the hard way that forced collaboration doesn't create innovation.
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It is easier to force cross training and allow shadowing by newer cheaper personnel when in office
I'll keep my work time at work and my personal time at home thank you!
I'm pretty much done working beyond 8-5 because of this change. The trade-off I made for being available around the clock was to my flexibility in schedule and work from home as needed or made sense. Those days are history, I'll work normal hours and they can hire someone else to work when I don't.
I work from home. I go in to TGT Monday through Friday at 7:30 am and return home at 6pm. My "home" work is non stop BECAUSE of technology. I'm available/accessible to my Team, Leadership and outside partners 24/7 because of the need for the work to be complete and everyone's complete lack of boundaries that has crept in to our work.
Everyone WFH breeds a company with no culture.
I have delivered pizza to those "working from home" for target. All i can say is wow.... What they call work is moving a mouse every 20 min to show activity. If they were wprking so hard why does it matter where they work. Good job target, make them get dressed and come into the office. That is why they call it work.
Companies want to embrace technology until they perceive it might somehow be improving the lives of workforce. Then they yank under some false pretense, like collaboration.