![]() Goodbye to the kindler, gentler employerįor Olga Kislinska, the pandemic felt like a great equalizer. ![]() That will also mean a workplace with fewer women and underrepresented minorities, since the pandemic-era changes that made their work lives better are now disappearing. ![]() Rather than a more diverse, inclusive, and happy office, the “new” workplace ushered in by the pandemic may be exactly the same one that existed before it. But even employers who had committed to change are backsliding, and the window of opportunity for the pandemic to dramatically change work in America is closing fast. Talk of the “Great Resignation” had employers scrambling to keep workers happy, and experts predicted a new era of work, in which people pursued careers they actually liked, companies took a stance on social issues, and the 9–5 workday was a thing of the past. who had been gaining leverage over their employers for the first time in decades. These changes are a serious setback for the 88 million professional workers in the U.S. “We are managing out our less productive agents more aggressively,” Mark Jones, the chief financial officer of Goosehead Insurance, a publicly-traded insurance company, said to analysts in October, explaining that the company was now in a “post-pandemic environment.” Goosehead also cut its corporate staff by 18% over the quarter “to focus on increasing productivity.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees that their performances would be graded more intensely than before Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly urged employees to work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger” Twitter owner Elon Musk advised employees who didn’t want to work long hours at high intensity to quit. Even people who still have jobs may notice that their employer is no longer the same empathetic, understanding boss that they bonded with in the first two years of the pandemic. ![]() It’s not just the spate of layoffs- including more than 100,000 in the tech industry alone in 2023-that have left professional workers reeling. ![]()
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