Office buildings should not be investment vehicles.

My office transition from WFH to Hybrid. A lot of people quit over the last year. We’re severely understaffed and we have had trouble hiring.

We had our worst internal survey results for the entire 10 years of my employment.

Management doesn’t seem to correlate the RTO rules as the problem though. 🙃

I’ve been trying to quit too, but I haven’t be able yo find a job yet (i was trying to change careers)

Why would I waste time going to a place with a shittier keyboard and monitor than I have in my quiet private office, with my cat, and zero other annoying coughing humans.

This article is megacorp paid bullshit.

Literally nobody I know, nobody I work with across multiple contracts with multiple companies and none of my friends or their coworkers want hybrid work or full RTO.

Now, in full disclosure, I did run into someone the other day at a cafe that 100% misses going to an office and commuting and social lunches and whatever. But...that's just one person.

I will never work in an office again. I will starve to death before that happens.

Who on earth wants more people on the road?

Everyone should be against mandatory rto especially those that cannot work remotely and have to commute, such as labourers.

Too bad there's a ton of bootlicker red state governor's forcing their workforce back to the office at the taxpayer's massive expense.just to appease the dipshit who forgot this even happened within a minute of being told about it

Maybe we finally showed them enough times how quickly the team it took you years to assemble can evaporate into nothing.

I switched companies to avoid RTO. I happened to move closer to my mom during this time and not a month later they released Hybrid. Thank God I was out of range, but people were pissed. Funny enough, my company offered full WFH as long as metrics were being met, so there were some people who hadn't been to the office in years that were now told to go. And the limit was "50 miles as the crow flies," so people were going to have nice commutes. 🙃

I've had meetings where literally only one person is in the office (and it'll be empty behind them), while the entire rest of the team is remote. How can you tell people hybrid is necessary when the rest of their team is at home? We had people who were just hired, who came to my company specifically for the remote work, that had the rug pulled from out of them. When they complained, they were just told they agreed to work for the company under their terms and the terms had changed. Every single survey since then says the same thing: We what WFH.

I don't even do hybrid work anymore. I just end up doing contractor roles because contractors can almost always do remote work.

Because of this I'm constantly on and off projects.

This has broken the "my work cares about me" or "I'm going to retire here"spell they put on you.

Corporate doesn't care about you. You must be selfish at work or nobody will care about you.

I listened to one of these c-suite apes give a whole discussion justifying bringing people back to work. His points were that having an amazing work culture and 75k a year is more than enough to get people back. When it came to why people didn't want to return there was no mention of having more free time, avoiding commutes, etc.

These fucks are unbelievably out of touch.

I'm okay with 1 day a week in office. I'd prefer every other week, but it's good to have face to face conversations on occasion. But the office needs to understand I'm going to be much less productive those days. I'm leaving at 2 to beat rush hour, and I'm not making up that 1.5 hours of commute time after I get home (I will eat the morning commute though). I'm taking a lunch with my coworkers instead of working through it.

When everyone understands that the office days are performative rather than productive, it's not the worst thing. That said, keep fighting, my WFH brethren. Not everyone benefits from office time, and any time not spent in meetings it's fucking ridiculous to see people sitting in a cubicle with headphones on trying hard to emulate the peace and productivity of just working from home.

No one I know wants to go into the office just-because, but they also don't want to starve. When the choice is yield or die, it's not much of a choice.

I really dislike that the incompetent dolts who can't adapt to the internet are dragging everyone else down. I don't want to be in an uncomfortable office, losing hours a day to a commute, so someone can walk up to me and say "Hey" instead of using slack.

Hybrid is the worst. I mean its better than making me be there all the time, but it also lets people get away with all the bad habits: mixed in office / at home meetings, lack of documentation, unclear directives, favoritism, etc.

Hybrid means that the people are still unable to figure out how to communicate effectively, that they are going to start saying nonsense like "institutional knowledge" because they let people get away with it.

My employer tried to start an RTO program, likely as pressure from the owners.

My savvy manager had already deduced that existing checks were compiled on a monthly database query, so that's what I was doing; I also managed to skirt other checks by not claiming a permanent desk at my local office, which, as I predicted, kept me off of a separate query's shit list. I also compiled a point-for-point rebuttal to their bulleted reasons for implementing RTO as it would affect me and my work, and held on to that just in case.

They gave up the push not long after, and just ensure that butts are in seats when the owners visit so we all "look busy."

If you pay me well enough to maintain my current standard of living within 20 min transit/cycling/walking commute of the office, I’ll do hybrid. But I suspect I’m not going to get a mid six-figure USD raise.

Keep resisting RTO and the demands will continue to drop.

Also as jobs become the new abnormal.

Yeah i'm definitely in team "flexibility". I really don't mind going to the office, tbh, even mostly, but rush hour commuting can go fuck itself and I'm just not subjecting myself to that anymore. I can start up at home and then move to the office when less people are moving themselves around.

Fuck. I just had a really promising interview, but it was three days in office, three days remote (5 days a week, so the days gradually rotate). I've worked remote for 15 years, not including three months in a terrible office job that I promptly quit.

I'm making a mistake considering this, aren't I?