I know that for many of us RTO is near impossible to comply with. In my case it’s not that bad, but it still makes no sense. Personal costs will significantly go up, efficiency and productivity will tank. But given that complying with RTO also means office hours, I will for sure not break that rule. No more catching up throughout the evening, and no more availability outside office hours. And I will use all the time available to find something better. They will not chase me away before I’m ready to leave.
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You've got this! It'll take patience and resilience in this market, but there is a better place for you out there. Don't stop job hunting until you get there!
You will never be able to convince me that it's better for the company that I show up 5 days, instead of 3 or 4. You just want me out, and I am not even your target audience, since I am young. But, I will give in and will be out. I honed my skills enough and I can show myself to the door. And yes, I will be using my office hours to find a job elsewhere, with my spare laptop. You want work to be done at the office, that is where its going to be done. Once I am out, no more work, regardless If I am exempt.
T is unburdened from the WFH of the past
"WFH has never been a free benefit. T has lost billions in productivity"
T will lose billions in free productivity without WFH. ATT's cloud advancements occurred while employees worked from home, anytime, anywhere the previous decade. If you read the other comments, people are now withdrawing anywhere, anytime, and confining productivity to working hours. Advancements only M-F, between 8-5pm, not 24/7. Advancements will stunt and people will leave. Its mathematics.
I know you are a troll and don't believe your own post, I'm addressing others that read your comments and may be evangelized by it.
"The outlook will improve soon."
It has already started to improve. A great weight lifted.
"I know that for many of us RTO is near impossible to comply with."
the only people that should apply to are people hired during WFH
The outlook will improve soon. Executive locked in, both Houses by Monday, and 2-3 more of the Judicial during this FIRST term. Heck yeah!!
Hiring of US citizens/Residents (not Hxx Visa) should be a significantly weighted factor in the application of continued Federal corporate tax rate cuts. Why are we essentially PAYING businesses to send jobs offshore?
Fortunately an adult is in the House now and your prospects will greatly improve for finding follow-on employment.
T has lost billions in productivity due to employees taking care of children and other nonwork activities.
[Citation needed]
Every study done thus far indicates remote work actually boosts productivity, because employees take less time for lunch and work longer hours. You also have a bigger pool of talent who would be willing to work for less.
It's not to say that some people don't abuse the system, but those who do are easy to weed out through performance metrics. If work isn't being delivered on time, then it's really the manager's fault for not calling out that employee. The location is irrelevant.
Also, very few people actually "collaborate" in the office. You know what in-person collaboration actually entails? Peer programming and whiteboarding. Otherwise, majority of our collaboration happens via remote technologies like Teams.
Contrary to popular belief, standing around talking about the game is not collaboration, it's socialization, which is typically the number one cited reason for why some prefer to be in the office. But make no mistake, it's not productivity and it does not earn the company money. :)
Again, dinosaurs will dinosaur. We're a tech company ran by fossils stuck in the 80s who don't understand technology and won't place their trust in those who do.
I have a unique situation. I actually go to the office and work. Just like I’m paid to do. I know, crazy right?
Entitled schmuck
“Take away a free benefit from people for no other reason”
WFH has never been a free benefit. T has lost billions in productivity due to employees taking care of children and other nonwork activities.
“No more catching up throughout the evening, and no more availability outside office hours. “
You really haven’t been doing this now, so T knows it will benefit more from having you work 8 hours in the office.
Just do like everyone else and spend 100% of the time they force you to commute into a pointless shared workspace to apply to other jobs. Many locations are just a job hunting support group now. Most of the collaboration is sharing job leads.
RTO and actually work.
we dont need to know just do it and shut up. who cares what you do.
On point. We had dudes snoring in the office long before 2019.
It's your job and your life. Do whatever you want to do.
You are a lifer.
we dont need to know just do it and shut up. who cares what you do.
Yep!
Take away a free benefit from people for no other reason than the cluelessness of one one DB, and the best people will self select themselves out of the business. The ones who can get jobs do and the rest stick it out.
We've laid off so many and always it was the people we needed less. This is the opposite.
Glad I took my six months and left. Bye baldy.