Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don’t want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I’ll consider it.
Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: “A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic”
People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We’re already split across three “back office” physical locations when we are in the office and we’re more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn’t just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.
It’s like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can’t figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.
To be fair, rto is mostly an assertion of control and an a chance to lay people off without legally laying them off. Your jail and execution chamber don’t have to do anything besides adhere to regulations.
We adopted a hybrid model. I’m in a technical role and most of my team is all very far away from me (1200 km). Some are in my local office however, but I don’t really work with them. Thus, I promptly ignored the emails encouraging us to return
Travel to my office is 35 mins; 45 to an hour in winter. No thanks. I do exceptional work, get my shit done, mentor juniors, and was hired on covid. You can drag me back to office kicking and screaming.
I’ll go if there is a reason for me to go: in-person client workshop? I’m there and I’m there early. Big wigs are in town and want to meet the team? I’m first in line to shake hands. Im not, however, returning to the office for the wonderful conversation at the urinal. I don’t project manage or people manage. Give me your garnliest technical issues, and I’ll lead a small team to complete them, but I’m not signing timesheets or pushing corporate messages so I don’t need to rub elbows with people.
Now if you’ll excuse, the basement isopods are getting lonely
The more you demand of an office to avoid RTO, the lower their salary offer will be when they decide you can either take a significant percentage pay cut or a 100% pay cut.
Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don’t want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I’ll consider it.
Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: “A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic”
People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We’re already split across three “back office” physical locations when we are in the office and we’re more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn’t just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.
It’s like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can’t figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.
Fuck this boils my piss.
To be fair, rto is mostly an assertion of control and an a chance to lay people off without legally laying them off. Your jail and execution chamber don’t have to do anything besides adhere to regulations.
We adopted a hybrid model. I’m in a technical role and most of my team is all very far away from me (1200 km). Some are in my local office however, but I don’t really work with them. Thus, I promptly ignored the emails encouraging us to return
Travel to my office is 35 mins; 45 to an hour in winter. No thanks. I do exceptional work, get my shit done, mentor juniors, and was hired on covid. You can drag me back to office kicking and screaming.
I’ll go if there is a reason for me to go: in-person client workshop? I’m there and I’m there early. Big wigs are in town and want to meet the team? I’m first in line to shake hands. Im not, however, returning to the office for the wonderful conversation at the urinal. I don’t project manage or people manage. Give me your garnliest technical issues, and I’ll lead a small team to complete them, but I’m not signing timesheets or pushing corporate messages so I don’t need to rub elbows with people.
Now if you’ll excuse, the basement isopods are getting lonely
The more you demand of an office to avoid RTO, the lower their salary offer will be when they decide you can either take a significant percentage pay cut or a 100% pay cut.