Get ready to sit in each other's lap, or get in the office by 6 AM to get prime sitting. Charlie has no spine and gonna tell us the same soon.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-orders-federal-workers-back-office-full-time-2025-01-21/
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@fs+1jj46x1w2, you are incorrect.
You have it backwards, corporate America is pushing RTO, gov is just listening to those that pay them. They don't really care either way so long as they get their money and in fact most of the greens in gov agencies love the idea of less people commuting.
@af+1jj46x1w2, the government has been pressuring the Wall street to go for RTO for the past few years. That's why many banks are moving towards RTO. Now that Trump and Musk are more pro-RTO, many banks will move even faster towards RTO. You are off topic because you can't connect the dots.
Honestly I wouldn’t put it past our c-suite to simply force us all back in 5 days a week without any regard for where there is or isn’t enough space and simply let us all figure out how to deal with it if there isn’t.
@bf sounds like your office building is an ideal target for downsizing the corporate real estate portfolio.
Personally, I win either way:
A. I keep my job, and it's 100% WFH, since there's no core or specialty location within 350+ miles of me.
B. I get 14 months of paid training to learn and start a business my buddy has been trying to get me to do for years, since he runs the best-in-class vendor of it in the PNW and believes I could crush it the LA/soCal market.
Bring it on.
Your building may be an outlier, but right now tons of WF office space is 10-20% utilized at any given time. Throw in some more terms this year and we'll "fit" alright. I've never once seen 50% of the cubes full in my building. Usually much lower than that.
With the selling off of corporate real estate, there is literal no way they can send us back in 5 days a week unless they have a massive layoff plan which doesn’t appear in the cards since they reduced severance expenses for this year to 2/3s of what they budgeted last year.
Never fear. They will keep cutting till things are right sized so that everyone has their own chair.
Who cares about federal workers? Off topic. We should be much much more concerned about JPMs 5 day RTO.