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Employees who can work extensively in the home office are precisely those employees who are no longer actually needed.
Here you should think very quickly about whether you can replace such employees with AI, traditional software or organizational measures.
But that doesn't mean that everyone who sits in an office all the time is still irreplaceable. Here too, it is important to see very quickly whether these jobs can also be saved.
Addendum 19.10.2023
Since I received several negative reactions - which is what I expected - I am expanding my thoughts with a few additions.
Every work as well as every work and production process must be continuously checked. So do the respective jobs themselves. It has proven to be a good idea for administrations - something we probably no longer do in our country - to put all workplaces to the test every two years: meaning and purpose, utilization and the possibility of increasing efficiency.
In more technologically sophisticated companies, this routine test must be carried out more quickly, although an annual test has proven to be pragmatic here. Faster routines are hardly feasible in human workplaces, at least from a human perspective.
Outsourcing of production as well as the outsourcing of intellectual work (e.g. home office) is definitely an indication that the whole thing can also be organized differently and the respective work could be completely outsourced from the company - which would of course have to be checked in advance.
The founding of new companies, the takeover of a department by another company or the commissioning of a company to take over previous activities for its own and other companies are now common practice.
