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After four years of work from home, since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ll soon have to start going back in once a week. I know, that’s a lot better than many people that have been forced into 5 days a week or similar bullshit, but it’s definitely one more day a week than I want to go in. DC area, too, so you know traffic is going to be a nightmare, as always.

I’d even be willing to go in quarterly or whatever for special meetings. But weekly? We’ve proven we can do this.

They’re pushing this whole “hybrid” working and “rethink how you work!” and “it’s all about teams!” But they didn’t require any sort of coordination on coming into the office for teams, or anything along those lines - it’s a free for all. So instead of sitting at home on a call, we’re going to be sitting in cubicles on phone calls. It doesn’t make any sense.

And even if they had decided teams should coordinate in-office days, my area in particular works with so many different teams that we’d still be remote for most of them. Or in the office every day, which would not go over very well.

But I’m sure the Popeye’s (fast food chicken place) across the street will welcome us back. The one that has survived over four years without us. No one I know has ever gone there.

We’re going to lose a bunch of people as a result. And hiring is a disaster that isn’t likely to be resolved any time soon. It’s gonna be a fun few years…

Counting down the days until I can retire. Unfortunately, there are too many, I’ll have to deal with this. Or find a completely remote job.

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I know, that’s a lot better than many people that have been forced into 5 days a week or similar bullshit

I hope for your sake this isn’t just their first test followed by an escalating series of demands :-/

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Ha, actually they played themselves on that front. I don’t want to get into all of the details, but basically there’s literally not enough space for all of us to be in on the same day. There used to be, but they shrank the footprint to save money.

Honestly I think the plan from our upper management was to allow a lot of full-time remote working, but that got killed by even higher up people. So, now we have this. I actually think our upper management isn’t really the bad guy on this one and are just trying to make the best of a bad situation, dealing with idiotic requirements coming from on high.

I also think there are some artificial factors keeping it at one day a week, for now. It might go up to two at some point in the future, but a lot can happen between now and then. And two days might start running into that space limitation again, and they won’t easily be able to expand the footprint - nor will they want to spend the money.

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Which is weird cause the savings in not comming in to center is a win for everyone.

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The corporate office I work at panicked because they were going to get reclassified as a “remote hub” for tax purposes, which would have reduced everyone’s pay. But I’d personally prefer to take the cut instead…

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Oh didn’t know that was a thing.

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Not the real estate the finance industry relies on for REITs, think of all those poor restaurants opened in downtown wherever. No nobody will eat there now rent payments are being missed and REITs are dipping. Uh oh

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It’s true. I doubt the corps care though. Seems like the reason is millions of people live outside the city. Maybe find a way to make then want to stay by I dk making more residential buildings that are affordable.

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7 points

But how am I supposed to control my workers if they work from home?

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Lol same energy as How am I supposed to make sure my partner doesn’t cheat on me if I don’t GPS tag him?

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It was quite generous of you to even suggest solving it on a sickday. Boss should have understood.

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You can always spot the ones who care about the power structures more than the purpose by stupid shit like this.

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That happened

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I did it.

best thing that ever happened. now I get to wfh and I still refuse to answer calls from my boss after hours.

if it’s important have opsgenie call me, that way I can report I responded to 200 calls over the last year because some dumbass tripped over an Ethernet cable and my boss refuses to push the issue with infrastructure.

it’s a win win. I get yearly raises, he gets to keep his mouth shut and not “rock the boat”.

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Did what?

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your mom.

wtf do you think?

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, judging from the other comments.

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I’m on hybrid, but my entire team is all over the world, so I’m just as alone in the office as at home. The only difference is that in the office I’m bound by the train schedule, so I can’t take out of hours calls. My coworkers and manager keep petitioning HR to let me work from home full time.

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But management can claim a win by forcing ONE IT person to go to the office.

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How do they keep track of you if you’re alone in the office? I’m just curious.

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We have access cards to unlock the office doors; this is tracked. Everyone is required to be in the office for a certain amount of days per month, and a monthly report is always generated. I found when the fewest people are coming (nobody on my floor), and that’s when I come in, given that my entire team are digital nomads, so I’d communicate with them via Slack anyway.

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Damn that sucks. It’s so arbitrary.

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Gotta love jobs that treat their staff like children.

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