If leadership insists that work is most productive within office walls, I’m happy to lean into that philosophy. Moving forward, my office hours are my only hours. The 'after-hours' emails and evening catch-up sessions from the couch are over. If the goal is a strict office environment, then the work stays at the desk. Naturally, my output will reflect the loss of those extra 'home hours'—my metrics are already showing the dip compared to last year—but I’m simply following the new standard set for us.
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Try to understand, corporations do not care about their people whatever platitudes they espouse, whatever tenets they ram down your throat. As long as you are useful to them, you'll get paid. As soon as you are no longer required, you're out. Whether you're a VP, director or sales person, it doesn't make any difference.. They have no social conscience whatsoever, so look after yourself and pretend to care. If you understand that, you'll be just fine.
@an People calling others boOtLIckErS are usually just losers trying to gaslight people into being as big a failure as they are. Focus on yourself. Go and get a vocation instead of trying to drag others down. You're the kind of person they should RIF.
I remember there was a time where I just leave my laptop at my cube after I am done working.
Those natural bootlicking tendencies just have to be expressed, even if you have to force them in. Yay you!
Okay, this does relay a different message than other posts “boohoo, they won’t let me work from home anymore.” I agree - focus during your in-office work hours and not afterward.