Memo from Disney CEO Bob Iger outlines the next phase in Disney's employee return-to-office plans

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Monday January 9, 2023 2:30pm ET · "The Walt Disney Company"
Memo from Disney CEO Bob Iger outlines the next phase in Disney's employee return-to-office plans
Walt Disney Company headquarters in Burbank, California

Bob Iger has written to Disney employees, advising them that remote workers will soon be asked to return to the office for four days per week.

 

Beginning March 1 2023, employees currently working in a hybrid fashion will be asked to spend four days a week on-site, Monday through Thursday.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of Disney's office-based staff began remote work from home. The return to office has been a gradual process, with remote workers starting a three-day in-person work week throughout 2021.

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It will be interesting indeed as lots of companies have to make the calculation of if the cost of a Full Time Employee and Office Space overhead is worth keeping or if they should outsource that function for less.
↩ replying to networkpro
If your job can be done "just as well" from home, then your job can be done "just as well" at 1/5 the cost from Bangalore.
↩ replying to CaptainAmerica
This isn't always true.

I work a highly-skilled engineering position almost entirely from home. Companies have tried to outsource these jobs and can't get the quality needed for nuclear or highly sensitive designs when compared to ABET accredited graduates.
↩ replying to AshaNeOmah
For most companies, a hermit in a cell isn't as valuable as an onsite resource thus a candidate for either automating or outsourcing.
↩ replying to networkpro
100% disagree with this. Hybrid/remote work is the way of the future and companies that fail to do this will be left behind.
↩ replying to CaptainAmerica
Doesn't quite work that way.
↩ replying to mikejs78
Hold onto that dream as the 2023 culling that is currently underway in the tech sector says otherwise.
↩ replying to networkpro
The culling is primarily affecting the big tech companies (Google, Meta, etc). Smaller companies like my own are hiring key people away from larger companies because we are offering a remote first mindset.
↩ replying to networkpro
My face watching mouthy employees who spent the last three years writing "open letters" and bratty Slack rants and staging walkouts finally get taken to the woodshed.
↩ replying to CaptainAmerica
They won't be. Companies like my own are scooping those employees up.
↩ replying to mikejs78
I'm sorry but whiteboarding in a scrum room face-to-face is more valuable than coding in a closet. It just is.
↩ replying to AshaNeOmah
Not always true. Outsourcing IT to India for cost savings, layoff of most company domestic IT and my friend who survived the layoff travels to India several times a year to check on third party team.
↩ replying to CaptainAmerica
I'm sorry but that's a pretty narrow minded take and totally misunderstands how companies with remote first cultures operate.