Bosses are mandating returns-to-office, cutting costs and rolling back DEI plans, indicating that some managers are less empathic with workers.
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The Lede
Like social distancing and elbow bumps, another pandemic-era norm has faded: bosses who seem to care about your feelings. Return-to-office mandates, continual cost cutting, and high-profile rollbacks of diversity, equity, and inclusion at work signal that, in many cases, the manager is back in charge.
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- For some leaders, checking in on how their people are doing has become old, Maria Ross, an empathy researcher told BI.
- In 2024, about half of CEOs said in a survey from Businessolver, which tracks empathy in the workplace, that their companies' workplace culture was toxic.
- The draining of some CEOs' batteries comes at a precarious time. The rise of artificial intelligence — and the attendant risks to business models — is making some execs and rank-and-file workers feel FOBO: fear of becoming obsolete.
