- What is your personal opinion on RTO?
- How many days a week are you going into the office?
- Are you enforcing/encouraging your team to be in the office? (Either on your own volition or regurgitating the C-suite’s messaging)
- Have you had employees quit, complain, or blatantly ignore the RTO policy? If so, have you voiced concerns to your own manager about it?
- Have you seen any real productivity benefits by having people in the office?
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most managers were simps. why ask them really anything. unless, they're owners/partners/board members, they're still just US empire employees with no real rights, employment at will doctrines, and propagandized to get to those managerial "jobs"
- Personal feeling towards RTO is that people were getting their work done both at home and in the office so it makes no difference to me. People sandbag it more at the office since they are forced to be there so instead of tossing a load of laundry into the washer and getting back to work, they wonder around for 30 minutes talking to people in the office, getting coffee in the break room, using the restroom before finally jumping back on their computer. The work gets done but people are way more effective when at home because they know the quicker they finish the more time they have for other things around the house.
- I'm going in 3 days a week but not for the entire day, closer to 6 hours a day and I schedule the majority of my meetings for those 3 days and leave the other two as open as possible. None of my reports work in my building so it's not like I can keep a watchful eye on them when they are at their desk anyways.
- Doesn't really matter my stance on it as it is a corporate thing, if somebody isn't getting into the office 3 times a week and for a good portion of the day I will get notified and I MUST talk with them about it and go down the disciplinary path if they don't start going in. There is no option for me to just say it's okay and don't worry about it.
- Yes - people have ignored it and when they were told they need to show up at least 3 times a week for a good portion of time or they could face disciplinary action, they decided to leave the company.
- I did not see any improvement or decline in production or quality of work when comparing work from home to being in the office in pre, middle or post pandemic.
There isn't much to say other than companies have huge amounts of money tied up in buildings and want to get as much use out of them as they can. Unless a persons productivity and/or quality dropped when working from home, there isn't a logical reason why they should be forced back into the office.
- It’s more flexible than what my team had before Covid, which I appreciate, as I don’t think WFH forever was going to happen for us
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- Encouraging and keeping an eye out for anyone egregiously not following guidance
- 1 employee filed for an accommodation that I was supportive of given circumstances
- My team is across multiple locations, for the group I can see, there have been some efficiencies (e.g. tap someone on the shoulder as opposed to having to schedule a meeting). For those in other locations, I do feel like there is more work product coming out of them now that they are in the office some, although of note, none of these individuals worked for me pre-Covid, so maybe not an entirely fair comparison.
- Recovery Time Objective never really seemed to be much input into it. Seems to be dictated by technology, yeti have to certify it? Stupid metric.
- I go into an office every day.
- My team understands the expectations put forth by leadership.
- LOL, no. It’s a silly policy as i indicated in question 1, but certainly not worth giving up a job over.
- Yes, big time improvements.
Policy?????? follow????are you kidding?
Right! Policy is always followed.
- Nonsense
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if the bulk of your team is co located I see the benefit but otherwise it really depends on the person and if you get the work done I don't really care where you are doing it from, but that is just my opinion. I come in 3-4 days per week but I am fairly close to my office and have free parking so it isn't that big a deal for me. as for my team I tell them they need to start coming in 3 days per week. since we are spread out across the country I'm not there to make sure they come in but now that reports are starting to trickle out, once i am told to enforce I will. until then I will just tell them to try and come in 3 days a week as eventually it will be out of my hands.
I'm curious as to why OP is asking these questions. The policy remains the same no matter what the individual answers are.