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🧙‍♀️ The return to office gaslight | Ep44 OoO

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🧙‍♀️ The return to office gaslight | Ep44 OoO
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Remember how much you used to love the office? We don't either. The myth of the magical office must be stopped. Before the gaslighting causes a fire.

Hey, Welcome Back!

Have you missed those magic days at the office?

✨ That’s where you got some real work done.✨

Everyone knows productivity thrived when you and your co-workers were huddled together at the oatmeal-colored conference table.

Thank goodness the nightmare is over!

Or…wait. That doesn’t feel right.

😵🤨🥴

There has been a mega-surge of media trying to convince people that RTO is what everyone has wanted all along. And wow – we’re feeling more than a little confused right now.

Big bosses are leaning into this narrative to get unwilling employees back to the office.

🙏 They tried asking nicely

😒 They tried bribery

And now, it’s starting to read like a toxic relationship where the only way for one partner to get what they want, is to blatantly gaslight the other.

“I wanted to go somewhere LESS flexible…” said Jessica, a definitely real human Gen Z-er who – according to reports – suffers without the magic of the office in her life.

These stories are everywhere. Someone crack a window.

🙃 We know the office is terrible for productivity, and that people DON’T want to be there!

So, why are companies obsessed with perpetrating this total myth?

Surely where someone works isn’t as important as the value they create.

It’s episode 44 and I’m exposing the reasons why CEO’s and corporations won’t let go of their RTO policies. Even though there is an impossible amount of evidence that proves that the ‘magical office’ is nothing more than a myth.

🐉 Like the Loch Ness Monster. Or jobs that promise you unlimited time off.

It’s a battle of wills between the truth and a pack of horrendous lies that are harming everyone – and I wont stop until they realize that the office is NEVER going to suddenly be a magical place.

📽️ This Week on Episode 44:

🥜 Hear from a leading doctor why RTO is ‘the definition of insanity’

🙊 Dig into the facts from Harvard about productivity and WHERE it thrives

🤯 Explore research that proves RTO makes hiring and attrition worse

🧠 Get the scoop on the cognitive biases warping CEO’s perceptions

🏢 Discover the REAL cause of the productivity slump (pssst, you already know it)

There is no such thing as the magical office. Offices will never be as rewarding or as productive as working near family, friends and your set of twin Shih Tzus.

💡 Intrigued?

Watch the episode for a journey with Adam Grant, your local neighborhood CEO, and find out what you’re facing as a remote worker being called back to office life.

Returning to the office isn’t better than working remotely. And it never will be.

🌟 The real magic stays with remote work.🌟

🌎 Enjoy!

To piercing clarity,

Andrew

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If you want to add your voice to the movement, and have something to share that will educate, fascinate or engage our community of 6+ million people - reach out.

✔️Apply here!

👉 Or you can catch up on all the latest episodes of Out Of Office here.

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Andrew lives in Auckland, New Zealand and has worked full-time remotely for Crossover since early 2021. His superpower is using storytelling and humor to make interesting and memorable insights on complex topics. He's known for hosting the world's most-viewed remote work vlog (Out of Office), co-creating one of the most-subscribed newsletters on LinkedIn (Radically Remote), and contributing to Forbes. Beyond work, Andrew has visited over 100 countries, seen all seven wonders, and starred in a few high profile TV shows and musicals in New Zealand. You can hear a bit more of his backstory (and meet his dogs) here.

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