Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
OPINION Bosses say working from the office is all about productivity, but the truth is it's just a power trip driven by fear and narcissism.
Executives who insist on people working from the office like to say it's all about productivity, culture, collaboration, and mentoring. Pull the other one; it has bells on.
When executives demand that we "return to the office," they usually lean on a familiar set of talking points: remote work hurts productivity, people collaborate better in the office, and corporate culture only happens in the office. If you look closer, you'll see it's all malarkey.
Recent research by Professor Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and two of his grad students found that one reason some bosses resist remote work may be a desire to preserve authority and status. Or, as the paper title so neatly puts...
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