Jim Ratcliffe, new minority owner of Manchester United, is making news for expectations for a corporate workplace.
First he said the office untidiness a disgrace, especially calling out IT. I’ve been in technology for decades and rarely are IT areas more than managed chaos. Hell, even keeping my charging cables at home organized is a struggle (and often not worth the effort).
Next he’s implementing a strict return-to-office policy, citing statistics at Ineos that email volume was reduced on work-from-home Fridays. Is that much better than counting lines of code?
Based on ManU’s results over the last few years, there must be more important things to worry about than this, which not only demoralizes staff and leads to attrition (which may be intentional). Just seems like low-hanging fruit which doesn’t really move the needle.
