We were told the need for in-person collaboration was a factor driving the RTO mandate. Almost immediately it seemed that work took a back seat to socializing. Productivity was less important than what they were calling collaboration. Actual work became a distraction. The politics of RTO aside, has our work ethic suffered in the past 16 months?
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Definitely lost it, but before RTO and Covid even. Leadership still talks the talk, but they became comfortable with 3rd Place. We are too far behind now to ever regain the standing we once had unless they completely chop off the top 3 Levels.
When the leadership loses their ethics and use return to office as a way to get rid of higher paid people indiscriminately based on being higher paid, its hard to put a lot of effort in. I am a L3 who has been a top performer for decades from every manager I worked for and there have been several. I talk to people and it appears if you make over $175,000 per year and were Virtual you were auto moved to be let go. It is what it is but dont expect people who have worked hard for years to continue to go the extra mile when treated this way. The only reason I still work hard is loyalty to my manager and his manager anyone above that can pi-s off
"You work for a communications company. Stop being a snitch we have enough of those at work. Mind your business or quit."
I'm going to snitch harder because of this post.
Check the Zilberstein and Chewning orgs for virtual assignment hoarding and people badging in for each other and allowing people to badge in to non-hub locations after being assigned to hubs. HR, you'll find lots of questionable things to examine.
Do not forget that the Stink has NO work ethic - other than to fill his bank account up and to make the wrong, stupid, and most torturous decisions possible. Stink has no work ethic at all.
Stink is a P O S
No, we didn’t. The company has stated in no uncertain terms that they want us collaborating, team building and networking in the office. That doesn’t just involve solving work issues. It also involves socializing by the water cooler and longer lunch breaks. If you’re not doing what the company has specifically requested, then you have the bad work ethic.
I was counseled about a decrease in my work performance. We have a decent Manager but she didn't realize that about half of our work is very much like assembly line work where the completion of successive tasks are dependent on other tasks being completed by other team members. Some team members more frequently engage in the never ending office banter and fall behind on their work obligations. We did not experience this so much while working from home or in the office pre-pandemic. Encouraging "collaboration" brings out the worst performance in those who are easily distracted or are already prone to avoiding work. We discussed it during a team meeting. Without having been called out by name, two team members openly threatened to file complaints with HR for being singled out for doing the very thing the RTO mandate required, loosely defined collaborating. That meeting was a new low for us.
If mgmt doesn't want to listen to employee feedback, expect morale to be affected. Treat employees like govt employees, expect govt work output.
The majority has spoken so don't complain when productivity decreases.
When the pendulum swings back and it becomes an employee market again, let’s not forget how they treated us.
Extremely hard to focus and be productive in the noisy office. Not to mention the wasted 3 hours a day commuting which I used to spend working. Too tired to sign back in after the drive home most days. It’s exhausting.
I think I get more work done in 1 day at home than I do in 4 office days. And I don’t think that’s an exaggeration.
You work for a communications company. Stop being a snitch we have enough of those at work. Mind your business or quit.
More productive at home. I worked longer hours , no distractions from fellow cubicle workers on Loud conference calls all day long and no conversations outside my cube during the day.
Any time spent doing cross-functional collaboration or spontaneous corridor epiphanies is time not spent doing the day-to-day tasks. Can't do it all.
No one was more productive at home. Get in the office
I worked harder at home than in the office. I was determined to not ruin it for everyone else
told everyone i was more productive at home, even though i was doing nothing.
Hilarious!