RTO > Customers and Resilience

This company has seen more large scale customer outages in the past year than the last 5 combined. The common denominator? RTO.

Employees are exhausted, and burned out both mentally and physically. Productivity is in the trash. Instead of getting an extra 2-3 hours of work per day from each employee that time is now spent commuting. Employees no longer care because they realize leadership doesn’t care about them, and we feel like we aren’t heard or trusted.

Leadership’s top focus and priority is RTO. Making up new office designation titles, enforcing presence reports, tracking days and time in office causing a constant fear at the front of everyone’s mind. Nobody can fully focus on actual work because of RTO. Either comply, leave, or wait to get cut. Top talent and knowledge base goes out the door everyday because nobody wants to waste 2+ hours a day commuting to an office to sit on teams calls. The whole thing is a joke.

Keep asking them in town hall meetings if RTO and made up “collaboration” is really more important than our customers. Make them feel as stupid as they are.

The only way to right this ship is a shake up in the C suite and roll back of RTO.

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"One man’s exaggeration is another man’s lie. You lose respectability when you “exaggerate”."

The exaggeration is that RTO is about colaboration and you lose respectability when you say its about anything other than a cheap way to force employees to leave without paying severance. The same with the moves to Dallas and Atlanta. The same with whatever the next cheap scheme C suite comes up with.

“ Distance from California to a forced relocation to Atlanta is 2299 miles.
Distance from California to New Jersey is 2886.
My bad for exaggerating, sheesssshhhh”

One man’s exaggeration is another man’s lie. You lose respectability when you “exaggerate”.

Distance from California to a forced relocation to Atlanta is 2299 miles.
Distance from California to New Jersey is 2886.
My bad for exaggerating, sheesssshhhh

Oh my bad.
“Thousands of miles” you happy?

“ forced relocation 5000+ miles away”

What a joke. Dallas and Atlanta are well short of 5k miles from anywhere in the contiguous 48.

So you’re not capable of doing the job unless you can do it from home? Gotcha…

“You id--ts continue to relate RTO to every failure. What was it before the pandemic and before you were allowed to work from home. If you are so disgruntled that you can’t watch your favorite programs or babysit or homeschool your kids on company time, go find another job. Three days is the office is better than five. Quit complaining.”

forced relocation 5000+ miles away
monitoring taking precedence over everything
losing security experts and developers due to RTO
losing network engineers due to RTO
company culture overall is significantly worse
packed into over crowded offices when we used to be more spread out, reducing productivity
no parking in Dallas, or Atlanta, have to walk 30 mins to get to said office because I have to park miles away
traffic, tolls, etc when before you could go to Plano

These issues, and more and this person says “mad about not being able to watch tv”
Sure, Stankey, keep telling yourself that’s the problem see how that works out for you.

You must be new here. Office presence was never a consideration prior to the pandemic. Nobody was tracking days or time in the office. Just results.

Now all they want is as--s in seats.

You id--ts continue to relate RTO to every failure. What was it before the pandemic and before you were allowed to work from home. If you are so disgruntled that you can’t watch your favorite programs or babysit or homeschool your kids on company time, go find another job. Three days is the office is better than five. Quit complaining.

The states that seem to be the most affected so far are California, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, and Georgia - though more are starting to report problems, Nick Sotor said.

You’re right, but you forgot that we implemented DEI standards at the same time.

RTO plus DEI. The one two death punch.

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