Get ready for April 1!
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LOL....get ready for the return to the office to be delayed again....soon. Another huge spike in COVID-19 is on the way. Just look at what's happening in Europe right now - England, Scotland, Wales, etc.
Anyway, whatever happens in terms of office return, I am so grateful I do not have to deal with it. Period. Today, after 4 interviews over just 2 weeks with the same company, they have extended me an offer. Fully remote. Same time zone. I am taking it.
$2B campus expansion. Not $1B.
People who say they are excited to go back are big liars and suck-ups. People should call them out!
I’ll be there for the first week, then I’ll return to my home that’s not in Oregon. They can go ahead and fire me if they want.
@1xuq…I recall the tax break issue has been discussed here previously and was pretty much debunked. I do believe however that Nike’s insistence that employees return to the office probably has a lot to do with the ill-timed $1,000,000,000+ campus buildout. Either way I agree most employees don’t want to return to campus. I definitely don’t. Working from home has provided some semblance of work/life balance I didn’t have prior to the pandemic. Taking that away from us after we’ve had a taste of it is bound to be poorly received. The good news is we all have choices. There is an ever increasing number of solid employers who will allow 100% remote work. If people feel strongly enough about the issue they can vote with their resumes. If it isn’t important enough to some people to seek other employment that’s fine too. Like I said we all have choices. There’s also another option: tell your manager “I won’t be coming in 3 days per week. I’ll be here 1 day. You tell me which day works best.” If you’re valuable enough your manager won’t have much say in the matter. If you aren’t valuable enough to have that leverage that’s probably all the more reason to go somewhere else.
Lol Nike a joke
Nike is desperate to have employees back to help themselves get tax breaks!
They are so out of touch on the pulse of the employee marketplace it’s insane! they are moving forward with back to work, like it’s a good thing.
Whether you’ve been v-Ed or not! No one wants to go back! Guess they don’t care about being employment trend setters! But rather force people to commute to work and move to a city that is literally a dumpster!
First - This bites mostly because on-campus means more ridiculous, needless meetings
Second - someone mentioned immunocompromised below…please. At this stage, with a virtually harmless coronavirus virus (for folks who choose to vax), this ~3% of the population is going to have to deal with it the same way they deal with any other virus for which they’d not have a normal immune response. I feel for them, but it’s their life unfortunately
First of all, the official return date for all of us is 5/3 not 4/1. This did not come a surprise though. Unless something drastic happens between now and then, it is on. That being said, I am not returning to campus because I am fulfilling my promise to myself and my family- new job, fully remote (from anywhere in the country). We all have choices to make. If your choice is to stay with Nike and go back to the office then that is great. If you do not want that, find something else. Best of luck to you all.
@jwg are you nike's real estate agent?
I disagree @kgs. Covid will be endemic. It will likely never disappear completely. Barring some unforeseen event, by April 1 Covid case counts should be very low. In Oregon case counts have already dropped by 40% in just the last week. Given this we can’t stay locked-up in our bunkers forever. Also remember that many hundreds of thousands of your neighbors and fellow citizens have already returned to their offices. Quite awhile ago in many cases. If people returning to their offices was going to cause some type of new and disastrous outcome for young kids and immunocompromised people we would have already seen that by now.
Basically I’m trying to politely say that I think you’re being overly dramatic and overestimating the actual risks of returning to campus. I also think that was an awkward use of the term “gaslight”.
This announcement completely gaslights parents of kids under five or anyone with immunocompromised family.
Yup. Announcement will go out around March 1. Then on April 1 everyone will be expected to return to their telemarketing inspired work stations. Working from home full time was nice while we had it. Now I’ll get to add an additional 8 to 10 hours to my work week just from commuting and the morning ritual required to physically go into the office. All of us will pretend we’re happy to be back on campus while in our own heads we’ll be thinking “God this totally blows”. Amirite???