re: In office M-F announcement just went out!

Employees leave company due to shitty middle manager. Story at 5.

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Maybe the elite producers should lift up their team members. You know, be a leader. Hard to do in your lay-z-boy from home. Do you ever expect to get into the executive world without knowing how to be a leader and communicate with all types professionally? Just do you job and watch Netflix?

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Speaking as someone who tends to get a fair amount of deference because of my ability to do all facets of my job, which includes training and administration, when I’m in the office, I have a very hard time getting my individual work done because someone is constantly knocking on my door. If I didn’t have the ability to work remotely part of the time, I would be far less productive and would get very, very burnt out.

But good luck and Godspeed

"My company is so bad arse, we are mking everyone come back to the office 2 years after most people did it!"

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They are just following trends. They aren't trying to fix an actual issue.

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Yet another sign of poor leadership and management.

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Holy shite!!!!! Knew it would go out the Thurs afternoon (I helped draft the email) before Christmas but this is gold.

“Starting 1/6/2025 everyone is expected to be in the office during normal business hours Monday - Friday. We are cancelling our hybrid scheduling for increased engagement and productivity. Please consult your manager with any questions.”

Ready for the melt from the soys and dog park on a Monday people. Let the culling begin!!!!

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We just had an announcement we're going from two days in the office to three soon...

I think the real question is whether it's necessary or not. Was productivity at your company dropping because you were remote? Because, if not, this feels vindictive.

I know, for my company, at least on my end (can't say what the case is for everyone), productivity didn't change at all and adding a third day across the board (versus during the more busy times) of the week feels unnecessary from both my perspective and the perspective of some of my colleagues

When you go remote/hybrid and employees realize that there is no change in productivity besides you getting more productive in terms of household chores when work isn't busy, then it's really hard to swallow when you're being asked to go into the office more for no real reason.

And yeah, when I do a cost/benefit analysis of my job versus changing jobs, the benefits of our flexible schedule decreasing does factor into that.

I get more work done workign remote than I do in office - the only things I socialize with are my wife, when she is also not working ( which is always when I am) or my cat.

the office is way more inefficient for me.

but then again I was remote full time about a year before the Pandemic, so my bosses know they have nothing to fear from me on it.

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I hope all of the good employees leave and you wind up having to pull the slack for the same pay.

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How do you know the people working from home were productive at all?

Our WFH people in our office certainly aren't. But they're not productive when they're here anyway. They just like taking days off and not having to claim vacation or sick time.

Yeah, jump on the computer for 45 minutes like you did something and call it a day then go do personal errands or see a movie. Seen and heard it first hand.

You all think WFH people sit at home and work.. yeah right.

Downvote away. That will really bother me.....

It's hard to flip burgers remotely

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Is that where my butt is supposed to be?

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Heck if I know, I was just being a smartass.

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Crazy world is a bunch of people sitting on an internet message board during regular work hours complaining about other people's productivity.

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What percentage of them do you think are working remotely? I'm guessing less than 10%.