RTO and Return of Absolute Authority - Just Like Dad Told You, "You Will Do It Because I Say You Will Do It"

 Junior lawyers, management consultants, content-creators, software developers and those in a growing number of other sectors wonder: Is the Amazon shift from hybrid to five-days-a-week in the office a sign of what is to come? 

This is a central issue that those coming for a tarot reading ask about. Overall, there has been an abrupt change from wanting to focus on relationship matters to what it will take to hold onto a job - or get hired. Meanwhile, on professional anonymous network Fishbowl Consulting there's this posting:

"How likely is it that most firms force a return to office 5 days a week in 2025? Terrified of this"

I don't predict the future. But in channeling into the energy (and connecting the dots on trend reports) I pick up that, given the return to employer power post-pandemic, total RTO is in the cards. LinkedIn reports:

"Nearly 80% of CEOs believe their hybrid employees will be back in the office full-time by 2027, according to a new survey from KPMG. Earlier this year, just 34% said the same." 

That's part of the game, that is to leverage five-days-a-week as a tool to prompt voluntary departures. As is well-known, there had been massive overhiring during COVID. With the economy so uncertain, those brought in aren't leaving. To force them out would be expensive. To impose rigid RTO accomplishes that with no financial burden on the employer. Talent will assume they can land other jobs. They might or might not be right. 

In addition, having everyone back in-place in-person constitutes a kind of "virtue signaling." The message is: Here we all are, together, pulling for you the client/customer/shareholder with a collective sense of purpose. 

There is also the play-out of how dad used to say, "You're going to do it because I said so." Again employers are asserting that absolute kind of authority. In itself that can deter any vestige of rebellion in the downsizing knowledge worker labor market. Incidentally the headline in legal publication Law.com reads "Put up or shut up" about mandated office attendance.

In my niche - tarot reading - there has been a surge in the request for the in-person sessions. Even with Zoom available, the demand is for raising the vibrations as we sit across from each other in a common space with the light dimmed. Yes, the model is returning to a force field of  intense in-the-now in-person human connection. As in other sectors, that could restructure how services are delivered throughout the psychic industry.

Jane Genova * Tarot Card Reader * Intuitive Coach * Medium.

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