https://fortune.com/2024/07/23/women-workplace-return-to-office-mandates-losing-talent-upwork/
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"I refuse to procreate anymore."
Awesome, s-x for fun is back! The best thing about children is making them!
yeah, RTO is a loophole for ATT to ditch established people. Stankey referred to people as t4rds on his desk. who's going to move across the country on an adventure to join a new community? not someone with kids with friends. not adults who volunteer and improve their communities. ATT doesn't care about any of that. The crazy thing is, ATT doesn't realize that it has made a bad example of itself to younger people looking to start families. the workforce will crash.
find somewhere better. you people are talented. why let ATT own it?
RTO meant I could no longer coach my kid's soccer team, sleep in. Total bummer.
“Yes. I’m a mom of three young children. RTO has been very hard on me and my family, to say the least. I don’t live anywhere near Dallas and the commute is awful. Not sure how much longer I can do it and job market is horrible.”
Why would anyone downvote this?
Get a load of this guy…
“ If you are at home with young children around, there is no way you are fully concentrating on your job. RTO was never meant to allow for childcare.”
This loser drives an hour to the office, spends the first hour in the toilet, then circles the drop in cubes, desperately trying to find someone to talk to while peeking down the blouses of women. Then they go to gym and embarrass themselves on the kettle bells. Then they drop in on boss and talks about how productive they are in the office. Then they take a 2 hour lunch in the slums of Dallas. Returns to find an email inbox full to capacity. Takes no action. Tours the cube farm and complains they’re swamped and it’s a good thing they can focus in the office and get work done. Then, finally at 4:45pm, they rapid fire the emails to other parties. Each email is sent separately to 5 different people. Tomorrow at 4:45pm they will compare the 5 different responses and play gotcha and brag to the bosses they are lucky to have him watching the flock.
Meanwhile, the WFH ninja mom has called all of her contacts, corrected all the workflows proactively, automated all of the tasks and never emails jerkboy (never responds either) because he’s playing checkers and she’s playing 3D chess.
Nice try cube lizzard.
They don't care about the loss of talent, nor the now frequent high profile bad PR related to large outages.
They simply don't care.
“If you are at home with young children around, there is no way you are fully concentrating on your job. RTO was never meant to allow for childcare.”
Who the fu-k said I was working with my kids at home?? My kids have always gone to daycare, throughout my entire WFH tenure and covid. No way I can do my job with them around. Yikes at the assumption.
I hate how RTO inherently places women at a significant disadvantage especially regarding family planning, pregnancy, etc. Executives are sitting happy with multiple jobs on multiple boards, flexibility, no attendance monitoring. But normal folks get the short end of the stick. Meanwhile companies have been reaping record profits since COVID even with full time WFH.
If you are at home with young children around, there is no way you are fully concentrating on your job. RTO was never meant to allow for childcare.
I refuse to procreate anymore. Its impossible in this economy, society and the latest grief RTO. I feel for the struggling parents. People are so easy to blame them why have kids, your kids your issue, wfh means u dont work and just be with your kids.. because what's the alternative here? Only millionaires can have kids? 2 people need to work, that's the reality. Anyone has a grandma for rent?
No kidding???
Yes. I’m a mom of three young children. RTO has been very hard on me and my family, to say the least. I don’t live anywhere near Dallas and the commute is awful. Not sure how much longer I can do it and job market is horrible.
It has been a year now, give it up. Yes RTO was a d-mb move for most teams and people. They aren’t going to change it. Their wall st overlords gave them the directive to save the commercial real estate portfolios. Doesn’t matter how much talent or how many metrics show it was a poor move, they aren’t going back. Matter of fact some teams are now being told 5 days in office. Like that’s going to make it better because the metrics are so bad.