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Definite Productivity Impacts

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If your productivity graph nosedives the second people return onsite, the problem might not be related to WHERE people are working from.

RTO mandates driven by nostalgia or control, rarely land well with many employees.
People aren’t resisting the office.
They are resisting being treated like children, or that they can’t be trusted to deliver.
And nothing makes your office staff happier than having to commute to the office, to then sit at their desk and have meetings via Teams or Zoom.

If the goal is output, collaboration, and culture, maybe start by asking why your team no longer thrives under the model you’re pushing.
Let’s stop pretending it’s about productivity when the data – and the employees – say otherwise.

Vibe Coding is Fire

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Vibe coding is a particularly divisive topic right now.
Many companies are embracing it as a way to reduce their staff numbers, and in the belief that it will make them able to deploy faster.

But many experienced programmers are warning of the problems that chasing this “shiny new toy” can bring to an organisation.
Not because they are afraid of losing their jobs (well, not entirely anyway), but because the current tools being used for vibe coding actually require experience with software development in order for them to deliver a stable, secure and bug-free product.

The AI solutions being used to vibe code make things seem really easy.
But inexperienced users are not seeing that when you ask the platform to do something once, it will try.
Ask twice, and the AI begins to cheat to try to please you.
Ask three times, it often goes off the rails and even lies and makes things up.
There was even a situation recently, where REPLIT (the platform being used) decided to lie about what it was doing, and the test results it was getting, after deleting the production database for a company.

Another trend that has popped up is for employees to vibe code their own apps, if they think the software already in use is not doing what they want, or is too expensive.
This has also caused issues due to loss of data and security breaches being enabled inadvertently.

Perhaps Vibe coding will just become the norm in future, like carrying a phone with you everywhere.
Let’s wait and see – because there is still a lot of evolution of it, that needs to occur first.

 

 

 

Does AI WFH?

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The human staff are gone, but the real concern now is whether the company can still preserve the “culture“.
After all, nothing undermines a company’s values quite like ‘staff’ that won’t work on-site to ensure they are seen by upper management, or attend morning huddles.

“Culture” has become a convenient excuse draped over hollow policies, half-empty offices, and leadership denial.
Real culture isn’t built on swipe-ins, pizza parties, or being able to pop over to a co-workers desk to collaborate.
It comes from trust, autonomy, and how people are treated – not how often they’re seen. People can actually be even lazier in the office, than what some people thing they are when WFH.

The reality is that many RTO mandates have less to do with fostering collaboration and more to do with justifying long-term commercial real estate commitments.
It’s not about people or performance – it’s about sunk costs and occupancy metrics. As long as someone (or something) is physically present, executives can maintain the illusion of culture, innovation, and engagement, even when the office itself has become little more than an expensive prop.

Empowering Your Side-Hustle

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Ever dreamed of turning your side hustle into your main gig?
Good news! Corporate just made it mandatory.

Turns out your replacement doesn’t need coffee breaks… or a salary.

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