Has anyone heard of people getting offered a severance if they have to commute for over 40 miles, but it's not an every-day commute?
I was hired as a full-time telecommuter 15 years ago. During this whole RTO mess I've been getting told by my manager to just keep working remote as always, and that it's "business as usual".
Now I'm being told to that the senior management is "cracking down" on remote people, and that I'll need to drive to an office about 4 hours away once or twice a week for certain meetings. Nobody else on my team works there, so I'll still be calling in to the same meetings as always, just calling from a different location literally across the state. It's ridiculous, but it sounds like management is taking a hard line about it.
I've always done a good job, and I've never been the kind of person who needs to be "cracked down on". But it has now got me thinking about how things seem to be moving in the wrong direction here, and that maybe WF just isn't as good a fit for me as it used to be.
I'm close enough to retirement where I could make it work, and it kind of hurts to say this but if I was offered a severance package I'd probably take it. But I don't know if I'll be "offered" a package, or if I have to request it, or how all that works with this new "hybrid" commute.
It's not the kind of question I can ask my manager about, thats for sure. And maybe I'm wrong about all this and that I'm the problem, and maybe I don't know how good I have it here. I just don't know anymore.
I did read the new Severance Plan pdf and all the stuff about Substantial Position Changes, but it doesn't say anything about a long commute that's "Long, but not everday".
Just wish I knew, one way or the other.