How long until the mandate becomes 5 days in office?
Or will the entire RTO mandate be dropped once AT&T gets enough people to leave?
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We still quite literally don’t have the space for everyone 5 days in the ATL offices. Especially if it’s strictly enforced.
What do you consider Atlanta? There is a ton of unused cubes with widescreen curved monitors in midtown. To be there and see all the unused cubes makes we wonder if we do have an RTO policy. Everyone must be going to Alpharetta and Lenox.
There are already orgs required to be there 5 days. Just wait until ALL orgs are 5 days, then there will be a real population problem with seats. But obviously no one who can fix that gives a p00p.
We still quite literally don’t have the space for everyone 5 days in the ATL offices. Especially if it’s strictly enforced.
People can troll all they want about this but that doesn’t make cubes appear out of thin air.
When the boomers are gone, including the one in charge. And we get some new blood that believes we can connect with people anywhere they live or work (hey, wait a minute, that sounds familiar!) and we can save money at the same time. Maybe force TW on fridays so buildings can be closed an extra day each week.
All the cry babies who are jealous of those who got to work from home. Wasn't go great to be union tech who had to go in everyday and jam overtime, hey?
Once again, national security is a major concern and the U.S. is beholden to our enemies for energy. The Strategic Oil Reserve is near or at an all time low due to drawdown to try and keep fuel prices lower because of bad policy. Look where that has put the country’s security with the world heading to another World War. Time to get the Sailboats and old cannons out of mothballs.
You think layoffs are bad now,
Energy/fuel cost wouldn’t be an issue if someone hadn’t stop a new pipeline, renewing oil leases, stopped new drilling and the small area in Alaska.
Some leaders are already saying the “3-5 days in office “ meant 5 days with the ability to use two flex days on approval.
We will definitely be moving to 5 days. Corporate knew they had to gradually turn up the heat or we would jump out of the pot.
Don't you hate having to actually show up and work to get paid?
Five days in the office will come very soon. As the unemployment rates rise so will the number of days in the office.
Companies in Atlanta starting to announce resuming 5 day in office starting November. My role is moving to Dallas, maybe I can poach one of those jobs when people start getting fired for making Costco runs all day.
Once the major banks feel that the likelihood of a meltdown of commercial real estate loans has passed, all companies will open the door to unlimited telecommuting. This whole RTO was about saving the US from the domino effect of commercial loan defaults, nothing more, nothing less. They still want your lunch money and gas/commute money as long as they can get it. Just trying to maintain some assemblence of monetary transactions in downtown US cities as long as they possibly can.
When gas hits $10 a gallon due to the Europe and Middle East wars, they will put in the 5 days a week policy.
We were 5 days in at the start.
My guess is when all the shuffling to hubs is completed, it will just quietly stop being tracked. The reason they are doing it is to justify moving people into the hubs. If you are not at a hub (local, customer facing), chances are you will be considered remote, especially if they want to shut a building down.
I’m going to guess early next year sometime after the relocations happen. That will force the relo’d folks to quit. But they won’t announce it. They will just stop reporting or asking about it. But it will happen. Maybe a few more months at most.
You will never see an official announcement that "RTO is over, everyone can work from home as often as they'd like". Will never happen.
What "could" happen is that over a period of time, it sort of peters out to where the nanny state, badge swipe reporting. etc. becomes a distant memory.
But I don't see that happening in the near future at all. I expect the full on nanny state will be ramped up, going into and through 2024 at a minimum.
My org is already 5 days/week in the office.
The pendulum always swings back and forth. I’m guessing we stay hybrid for two years or so, then they’ll reopen the door for more telecommuting.