It's kind of pointless to argue with employers about whether remote work improves productivity; at the end of the day, that's the employers problem to figure out.
Making your employees show up at the office is an additional cost, either directly (better pay) or indirectly (employee satisfaction, retention, etc.) and any company needs to figure out for itself whether on-site working is worth paying the price.
The red herring about productivity is just a cheap attempt of getting workers caught up in a conversation about a "common goal" of increasing productivity that they shouldn't be caring about in the first place.
What the conversation should look like is: I drive X hours to work each day, so you will have to pay me Y more to get me to do that. Plain and simple.
It's kind of pointless to argue with employers about whether remote work improves productivity; at the end of the day, that's the employers problem to figure out.
Making your employees show up at the office is an additional cost, either directly (better pay) or indirectly (employee satisfaction, retention, etc.) and any company needs to figure out for itself whether on-site working is worth paying the price.
The red herring about productivity is just a cheap attempt of getting workers caught up in a conversation about a "common goal" of increasing productivity that they shouldn't be caring about in the first place.
What the conversation should look like is: I drive X hours to work each day, so you will have to pay me Y more to get me to do that. Plain and simple.
By that logic everyone should have got their wages cut during the pandemic as they not had to drive those hours to work anymore.