Businesses Increasingly Target Remote Workers For Termination

If the pandemic taught us anything about the American office, it taught us that remote work can certainly be done and done well. Face-time is not essential.

Or is it?

This report from The Wall Street Journal found that managers were 35% more likely to lay off white-collar remote employees than their counterparts.

According to consultants identified for the article, managers found it more difficult to fire people who they see on a daily basis. I mean, it's a lot messier to terminate someone who could cry in your office instead of ending a Zoom call.

The article focuses on the lack of a personal connection as the reason for this increase in the number of remote workers terminated instead of those working in the office.