#rto

So far, the only difference RTO has made in my life is more hours wasted commuting and higher expenses. I still haven’t met a single person I actually work with. Doubt I ever will. Any time I “gain” by not working late nights, I now spend stuck in traffic. I’d have more respect if they just admitted the real reasons. Because let’s be clear - this isn’t about collaboration and efficiency.

Didn't take long to figure out RTO was a losing mandate.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5412153-remote-work-reversals-state-government/amp/

I estimate that commuting three times a week is costing me approximately an extra $50 weekly, or $200 monthly. To make up for my increased expenses, I'm thinking about cutting back on some/all of the following:

• Christmas gifts for the family
• Contributions to my 401(k)
• Donations to the Elevance Health PAC
• Tithes to my church

What have others considered cutting back on?

I work at a PulsePoint location that lacks sufficient facilities, particularly meeting rooms. All Staff VPs have their own private offices with doors, yet the few small meeting rooms (designed for 1–2 people) are reserved exclusively for them. With the return-to-office policy now requiring three in-office days, there’s a clear shortage of spaces for quick meetings or 1:1s. It’s unclear why these additional rooms are restricted to Staff VPs when they already have dedicated offices—it just doesn’t add up. They don’t even need them but others are not allowed to reserve them!

Remote worker, just laid off, supposedly so they can use my headcount on someone in-office.

My manager is now spending several work hours each week driving to and from an office where none of their direct reports or other immediate team members are located. What a significant impact on people leaders’ ability to be available to and collaborate with those who need their time and support most! I hope leadership takes this loss of meaningful (and the most essential) collaboration into consideration as they contemplate the impact of this unnecessary requirement on people leaders, who in many cases are already burdened with far too many direct reports to be maximally effective. Now they have even less time to be available to those who depend on them the most.

New leadership believes developers are not able to complete deadlines at home. Prepare for a sweeping RTO mandate.

You don’t build culture with mandates and badge scans. We believed in connection and trust, and now it’s all about control. Starbucks used to feel different. Now it feels like we’re just being managed for show. You can’t force community. You have to earn it.

Every other reason is secondary, if there were ever any valid reasons to begin with. Commuting is manageable in some cases, unless we’re talking hours to and from the office. Relocation isn’t a real option. It’s extremely expensive, it disrupts the entire family, and you’re still at high risk of being laid off just months later. God knows how many more cuts are around the corner, or how this whole upheaval will play out.

Anyone hearing anything about the RTO changes coming? Supposedly soon…

Been at Medtronic 10 yrs and hired as a remote worker. Will they make me start going into the office ? I’ve never went in.

It’s been 8 months now for my group being in the office 5x per week. I’m curious what the metrics look like on what the improvements. have been. Has it been effective? Is the company more efficient? Other than more people than normal retiring or leaving the business, has it made anything better? I’m still not seeing these big collaboration meetings. Nobody meets in person.

We are now ranked #3. Previously we were #1. Verizon’s revenue exceeds ours and T mobile is catching up. Both companies are still fully remote btw.

Anybody else see this around PDC this morning? Can't say I disagree. Curious if leadership will actually address this point at the all hands?

We’ve been told repeatedly that outcomes matter more than optics — that it's not about how much work we do, but what we deliver.

This year, we delivered. The metrics are green. The progress is real.

So why the sudden shift in remote work policy? If collaboration or performance were truly suffering, wouldn’t that show up in the results?

If outcomes are the true north, then let’s operationalize that: allow teams or individuals who consistently meet or exceed goals to retain flexibility in how they work. Reward results, not physical presence.

Ultimately: is leadership more focused on where we work, or what we achieve?

So is the announcement of RTO aimed at further reducing headcount? Not sure what to make of it?

What’s Dell going to come up with next to get rid of as many of us as possible, by any means necessary? They keep creating an environment that no one with talent and options would want to stay in. It’s like they’re daring people to leave. So what will it be this time that triggers the next wave of resignations and drives out even more of the best people we have left?

Never stepped foot in the office. Pretty sure I’m on a list somewhere, but I’m not wasting 2+ hours a day driving just to sit in a ghost town.

Fire me if you want, I’m not quitting like you want me to:)

Is LBT trying to save management role in Intel?

Per Yahoo Finance: Nearly 9 in 10 CEOs said in a 2024 survey that they “will reward employees who make an effort to come into the office with favorable assignments, raises, or promotions.”

What's your take on the CX Americas RTO for RTP and Richardson? Is this just a way for Cisco to avoid LRs in Q1 by enacting a RTO? They estimate a certain amount of employees will resign anyway, so Cisco doesn't seem like the bad guy since they won't be doing LRs. Just a fancy way of HR and Legal to escape looking bad. We're onto you.

RTO within 50 miles of 10 centers:

1. AMER: RTP, Richardson, Mexico City
2. EMEA: Lisbon, Krakow
3. APJC: Bangalore, Pune, Tokyo, Dailan, Sydney

*Living >50miles = likely no promo, raise, etc. in the future.

Every day I walk into my new Lenox location I can barely contain the smile that is chiseled on my face from smiting that nothing loser Legg. He really thought his virtue signaling, progressive plan was a slam dunk to get rid of me and my kind. Wrong again pompous a-s! Like the rest of the C-Suite millionaire misfits, you failed to remove me from the ranks with the musical chairs and hoop jumping hunger games.
You took your shot and now it’s our turn to make a monkey’s a-s out of you. Please share with us if you had to provide updates with Stink and tell him the bad news about how much it would cost for building out the offices in Atlanta. I bet that didn’t go so well did it? You may have assumed more of us would fold but now we’re sticking it to your worthless power point slides. Best of all, gone is the dream of adding “DEI Warrior” as accomplishments now that Trump is in office. The shiny gold DEI star must now be removed with the attempt to scrub your RTO follies from the internet to hide the dirty agenda. Not on our watch monkey.

#Legg #DEI #RTO #CTO

Never ever in my life have I been this checked out. I have resigned and man do I feel like just doing nothing. I don’t even get it. I have never been this way. Constantly just RTO. Fu-k RTO now I have a brain capable of doing more than micromanagement.

Any news or rumors on RTO?

All exec vp’s please bring us all back to the office in q1

The purging is coming… In the hallowed halls of ye olde cubicle kingdom, there doth rumble a tale most foul! Hark! 'Tis whispered that a 'purge' is nigh, and many a colleague quivers in their ergonomic chairs. "To be purged, or not to be purged? That is the question!" Many of us live in dread of this ill-tidings. Yet, perchance, 'tis but a jest? Forsooth, if called to the boss's lair, shall I soliloquize or jest my way out? Alas, dear co-workers, fret not too deeply, for tomorrow is another casual Friday! 🎭 #ToPurgeOrNotToPurge #AllTheOfficesAStage #RTO #StankMe