“So in recent months, businesses have begun to put down their carrots and pick up their sticks.”
Bloomberg grew revenue from $10 billion in 2019 to $12.2 billion in 2022 with staff at home. Now it tells a remote engineer that skipping the office counts as “voluntary resignation.” Roblox tracks badge swipes and laptop location data on an HR dashboard. Last year bosses feared impulse quits. Layoffs fixed that, and the carrots went away with the leverage.