If you are experiencing cynical reading between the lines from your reports, you might want to ask yourself why. Why don't they trust you? Or maybe they think you're sincere but they don't trust senior management? I suspect that they have good reason for that, and you might take a closer look as to why.
You're not telling me anything I haven't already thought about. Remember, this thread started with me saying:
> At my workplace they keep nodding at "hybrid" without any specifics and the resulting fear due to uncertainty is far worse than a clear policy that some (many) people might not like...
The issue in my org is that, starting from the executive level down, everyone is saying "we are not forcing people back to the office", but no official policy has been written and published that lays that down in writing.
Then mouzogu came along implying that, even with a written policy, they still wouldn't believe it, thus the tangent about being frustrated.
But in my own org, today, absolutely staff have good reason to feel uncertain, if only because fear is filling the communication vacuum.
As for karaterobot's comment, they extrapolated a brief remark into a conspiracy theory. Rest assured, when communicating with my staff, there's a lot more nuance that's being conveyed.
