Me,, and majority of my team, are full-time telecommuters. No assigned desks in the office and official status is telecommute.
Our director makes it mandatory we come into the office once a month to work.
Other teams with FT telecommuters under the same VP do not have this requirement.
Is this something a director can force people to do?
Seriously, so many people would love to be in your position as a telecommuter and you have the nerve to complain about 1 lousy day in the office??? Wow, just wow. I’d probably keep this ridiculous complaint to yourself, as it’s not a good look.
Unless you’re a phone jockey, you’re employed at will and they can fire you for no reason whatsoever. So if “going to work occasionally” becomes a condition of employment you can’t tolerate, start looking elsewhere.
Are you seriously complaining about coming in once a month?
Lame
What the other responses said. There’s no corporate policy outlining that your directors must not ask you to come into the office. By the way, many of us who are hybrid would love to have the arrangement that you do. You shouldn’t rock the boat.
Basically they can do whatever they want in this regard. This used to be fairly standard practice u til reorganizations made it fairly pointless (nobody on the same team in the same office anyway). I agree it sounds pointless, but like the last person said, might not be the hill you want to die on.
Your director could remove your telecommuter status entirely and force you into the office 3 days/week if they wanted to. I would not recommend making their 1 day/month requirement an issue.