Work 2021: Say goodbye to yesterday's work habits

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols , Computerworld |

According to JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, working from home “doesn’t work for young people” or “those who want to hustle. It doesn’t work for [the] spontaneous idea generation. It doesn’t work for culture.”

Wow. What can I say, but “OK Boomer!” And, I say this as a Boomer myself who's only a bit younger than Dimon. Unlike him, though, my mental processes didn't freeze in place sometime in the 1990s.

Your employees don’t simply want to return to the office. They are not—I repeat, not—coming back. According to physical security company Kastle, only 28% of US office workers are back at their buildings so far this year. And many of the rest of them have made it pretty clear in surveys that they’ll quit if you try to force them back into their old office cubicle.

A May Bloomberg survey found 39% of workers would consider quitting if their employers weren’t flexible about remote work. For younger workers, that number was even higher: 49%.

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